The first table below looks at the demand for the VB.NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VB.NET Developer
Rank 468 445 462
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +17
Contract jobs requiring a VB.NET Developer 61 139 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.131% 0.238% 0.200%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.143% 0.258% 0.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 87 68
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 1
Average hourly rate £26.25 £31.75 £43.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.32% -26.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year
+14.17% -26.16%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

VB.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

VB.NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the UK.

VB.NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

VB.NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

VB.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the UK.

VB.NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

VB.NET Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

VB.NET Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -26 58 £325 +8.33%
South East -2 11 £375 +8.69%
West Midlands -3 11 £325 -
London +26 10 £375 -28.57%
East Midlands -10 10 £325 +18.18%
Northamptonshire +17 7 £325 +116.66%
Yorkshire +6 7 £288 -
Staffordshire +12 6 £330 +1.53%
Stoke-on-Trent +9 6 £330 +1.53%
Hampshire -5 6 £413 +65.00%
Portsmouth - 4 £413 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £288 -
South West +28 3 £325 +52.94%
City of London +10 3 £283 -42.05%
East of England +10 3 - -
North West -4 3 £275 -3.50%
Leeds - 3 - -
South Wales - 3 £300 -
Wales - 3 £300 -
Surrey +11 2 £350 -1.40%
Shropshire +10 2 £250 -16.66%
Derbyshire +9 2 £269 -2.27%
Manchester -5 2 £275 -4.34%
Telford - 2 £250 -
Cardiff - 2 - -
Brentford - 2 - -
Devon - 2 £325 -
Suffolk - 2 - -
Berkshire +10 1 £185 -
Birmingham +7 1 £275 -8.33%

VB.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title.

1 185 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 185 (100.00%) .NET
2 103 (55.68%) SQL Server
3 100 (54.05%) ASP.NET
4 96 (51.89%) SQL
5 61 (32.97%) C#
6 51 (27.57%) JavaScript
7 49 (26.49%) CSS
8 46 (24.86%) XML
9 45 (24.32%) Microsoft
10 39 (21.08%) Visual Studio
11 38 (20.54%) jQuery
12 37 (20.00%) XSLT
13 32 (17.30%) Windows
14 31 (16.76%) Finance
15 29 (15.68%) Ajax
15 29 (15.68%) HTML
15 29 (15.68%) VB
16 27 (14.59%) E-Commerce
17 25 (13.51%) N-Tier
17 25 (13.51%) T-SQL
18 24 (12.97%) XHTML
19 23 (12.43%) WinForms
19 23 (12.43%) SQL Server 2008
20 22 (11.89%) WCF
21 21 (11.35%) Unit Testing
21 21 (11.35%) Oracle
22 19 (10.27%) MS Excel
23 18 (9.730%) SOA
23 18 (9.730%) SQL Server 2005

VB.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited VB.NET Developer in their job title 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 with VB.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 185 (100.00%) .NET
2 100 (54.05%) ASP.NET
3 49 (26.49%) CSS
4 46 (24.86%) XML
5 38 (20.54%) jQuery
6 37 (20.00%) XSLT
7 29 (15.68%) Ajax
7 29 (15.68%) HTML
8 24 (12.97%) XHTML
9 23 (12.43%) WinForms
10 22 (11.89%) WCF
11 16 (8.649%) Web Services
11 16 (8.649%) CSS3
11 16 (8.649%) HTML5
12 13 (7.027%) WF
13 6 (3.243%) .NET Framework
14 5 (2.703%) Highcharts JS
15 4 (2.162%) ASP.NET MVC
15 4 (2.162%) LINQ
15 4 (2.162%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 14 (7.568%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.784%) IIS
3 3 (1.622%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.541%) CMS
4 1 (0.541%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.541%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 19 (10.27%) MS Excel
2 11 (5.946%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.027%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.541%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.541%) ZaiNet
2 1 (0.541%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.541%) Endur
2 1 (0.541%) Aligne
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.622%) FTP
1 3 (1.622%) Intranet
2 2 (1.081%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (55.68%) SQL Server
2 23 (12.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (9.730%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (5.946%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.784%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.162%) MS Access
7 2 (1.081%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.081%) DTS
7 2 (1.081%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.541%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.541%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.541%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.541%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 39 (21.08%) Visual Studio
2 8 (4.324%) NUnit
3 6 (3.243%) JIRA
4 5 (2.703%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 5 (2.703%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.703%) JSUnit
5 3 (1.622%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.541%) Git (software)
General
1 31 (16.76%) Finance
2 13 (7.027%) Retail
3 9 (4.865%) Telecoms
4 5 (2.703%) Games
5 3 (1.622%) Banking
6 2 (1.081%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.081%) Law
7 1 (0.541%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.541%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.541%) Electronics
7 1 (0.541%) Billing
7 1 (0.541%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.541%) Marketing
7 1 (0.541%) Polish Language
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.51%) N-Tier
2 9 (4.865%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.324%) Graphic Design
4 6 (3.243%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.703%) Tandem
6 3 (1.622%) Blackberry
6 3 (1.622%) WURFL
7 1 (0.541%) DTV
7 1 (0.541%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.30%) Windows
2 3 (1.622%) BlackBerry OS
2 3 (1.622%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.622%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (1.622%) Windows 7
2 3 (1.622%) Android
3 2 (1.081%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.081%) UNIX
3 2 (1.081%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (1.081%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (14.59%) E-Commerce
2 21 (11.35%) Unit Testing
3 18 (9.730%) SOA
4 17 (9.189%) MVC
5 16 (8.649%) SEO
6 15 (8.108%) CRM
7 14 (7.568%) OO
7 14 (7.568%) Web Application Development
8 13 (7.027%) Workflow
9 12 (6.486%) Scrum
9 12 (6.486%) TDD
10 11 (5.946%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (4.865%) Web Development
12 7 (3.784%) Asset Management
12 7 (3.784%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (3.243%) OOD
13 6 (3.243%) Document Management
14 5 (2.703%) UML
15 4 (2.162%) Release Management
15 4 (2.162%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 185 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 96 (51.89%) SQL
3 61 (32.97%) C#
4 51 (27.57%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.68%) VB
6 25 (13.51%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.865%) VBA
8 8 (4.324%) VB6
9 7 (3.784%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.081%) XPath
10 2 (1.081%) VBScript
10 2 (1.081%) XQuery
10 2 (1.081%) XAML
11 1 (0.541%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (8.649%) Degree
2 6 (3.243%) MCAD
2 6 (3.243%) MCSD
2 6 (3.243%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.703%) MCTS
3 5 (2.703%) MCP
4 2 (1.081%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.081%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.541%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.081%) QA
Vendors
1 45 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.35%) Oracle
3 6 (3.243%) AccuRev
4 5 (2.703%) Aquila
4 5 (2.703%) Telerik
5 2 (1.081%) Sybase
5 2 (1.081%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.541%) SunGard
6 1 (0.541%) HP
6 1 (0.541%) CA
6 1 (0.541%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.541%) SAP
6 1 (0.541%) Cadis
6 1 (0.541%) Trayport
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NET Developer you will be working on a number of projects, producing market leading software for financial and insurance markets. You will need a sound...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £320 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
My online retailing client are currently expanding and are looking for a VB.NET/ASP.NET developer to join their development and support team on a contract basis...
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, South West
As a VB.NEt C# Developer you will be working alongside the development team updating a windows based application, working on technical specifications and meeting deadlines. Skills *VB...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
BackgroundWe are currently recruiting for a VB.Net Developer... The programme focuses on the development of SQL databases, user interface tools, CRM and SharePoint to support their business...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 9 May 2013