Sussex VB.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Sussex region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Banbury Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumbarton Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Haslemere Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Hull Huntingdon Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	27
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	4.478 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£280
Average daily rate	-	£280
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£304
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.24	£33.19
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Programming Languages Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	19	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.067 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£461	£278
Average daily rate	£461	£287
% change on same period last year	+60.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£335
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£34.09
Average hourly rate	-	£36.14
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
VB.NET South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VB.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET across the Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB.NET across the Sussex region.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET across the Sussex region.

VB.NET
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sussex region citing VB.NET also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB.NET.

1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) Web Development 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (66.67 %) Fireworks 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) WinForms

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sussex region citing VB.NET also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Dreamweaver
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) VB.NET Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Web Development