The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB over the 3 months to 23 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 Warrington 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 20 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing VB 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 0.800% 1.031% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.564% 2.564% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £26.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+29.37% -12.40%
All Programming Languages
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
39 39 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 31.20% 40.21% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 17
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £288 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £435 £374
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +57.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VB
Cheshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Warrington VB Daily Rate Trend

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warrington VB Hourly Rate Trend

VB
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) RNC
2 1 (33.33%) RANAP
2 1 (33.33%) NBAP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) LTE
2 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Access
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ATM
2 1 (33.33%) WCDMA
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Ericsson
2 1 (33.33%) 3G
2 1 (33.33%) SS7
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) 2G

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 1 (33.33%) XML
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) RNC
1 1 (33.33%) RANAP
1 1 (33.33%) NBAP
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
1 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (33.33%) ATM
1 1 (33.33%) WCDMA
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) 3G
1 1 (33.33%) SS7
1 1 (33.33%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) MS Access
General
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Insight Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modeller
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Ericsson