Wakefield VB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Wakefield 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 over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	5
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£318
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.02
Average hourly rate	-	£10.02
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.39	£28.91
% change on same period last year	+5.10 %
Programming Languages Wakefield
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£335
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.02
Average hourly rate	-	£10.02
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
VB West Yorkshire

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
Demand Trend

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

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region citing VB 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.

1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (66.67 %) OO 1 2 (66.67 %) N-Tier 1 2 (66.67 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) VBA 2 1 (33.33 %) VBScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region citing VB 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) VB Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) N-Tier	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) VBA 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6 2 1 (33.33 %) VBScript	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft