The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Taunton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 20 13 8
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -5
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 1 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 1.316% 15.25% 23.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.000% 39.13% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
Average daily rate £320 £320 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.07% -1.99%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.64% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
20 23 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 26.32% 38.98% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
Average daily rate £325 £333 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.25% +1.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £320 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £365 £359
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB.NET
Somerset

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET across the Taunton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Taunton VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Taunton VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Taunton VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) C++
1 14 (100.00%) HTML
1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
1 14 (100.00%) VB
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
1 14 (100.00%) ASP
1 14 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 14 (100.00%) XML
1 14 (100.00%) UNIX
1 14 (100.00%) UML
1 14 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 14 (100.00%) Ingres
1 14 (100.00%) IIS
2 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 11 (78.57%) TeamCity
2 11 (78.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (78.57%) MSTest
2 11 (78.57%) Unit Testing
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (78.57%) NUnit
2 11 (78.57%) CruiseControl
2 11 (78.57%) Subversion
2 11 (78.57%) .NET Framework
2 11 (78.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 11 (78.57%) OpenROAD
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 14 (100.00%) HTML
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) ASP
1 14 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 14 (100.00%) XML
2 11 (78.57%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 14 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 14 (100.00%) IIS
2 11 (78.57%) OpenROAD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Ingres
2 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
1 11 (78.57%) TeamCity
1 11 (78.57%) Team Foundation Server
1 11 (78.57%) MSTest
1 11 (78.57%) NUnit
1 11 (78.57%) CruiseControl
1 11 (78.57%) Subversion
1 11 (78.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (85.71%) .NET Developer
2 12 (85.71%) C# Developer
2 12 (85.71%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Analyst Developer
3 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Support Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Support Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Analyst Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (7.143%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) UML
2 11 (78.57%) Unit Testing
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (78.57%) ITIL
3 10 (71.43%) Service Delivery
4 9 (64.29%) ITSM
4 9 (64.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) C++
1 14 (100.00%) Java
1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
1 14 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) ISEB
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (64.29%) MCP
2 9 (64.29%) MCTS
2 9 (64.29%) MCPD
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft