The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term VLE in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLE 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Warwickshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing VLE 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £424 £300 £250
% change year-on-year
+41.25% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £9.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+173.68% -36.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
18 52 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 8.696% 21.31% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 30 8
Average daily rate £250 £269 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% +19.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+124.13% -36.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
VLE
West Midlands

VLE
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing VLE 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 VLE.

1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

VLE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing VLE 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 VLE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET