West Midlands VB.NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the VB.NET Developer role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VB.NET Developer
Location Alderley Edge Banbury Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Brighton Bristol Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Devon Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	79
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	52	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	1.754 %	1.645 %
Daily rates quoted	17	2
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£303
Average daily rate	£319	£303
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£295
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£31.40
Average hourly rate	£30.75	£33.60
% change on same period last year	-8.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.50	£35.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.27	£35.93
% change on same period last year	-7.39 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2964	3161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.951 %	3.198 %
Daily rates quoted	714	687
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£330
Average daily rate	£345	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	272	428
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.48	£22.43
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£24.24
% change on same period last year	-13.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.47	£26.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
VB.NET Developer England

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.NET Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+15	15	£275	-12.69 %
Staffordshire	+9	12	£400	-
Wolverhampton	-	4	£600	-
Coventry	-	3	£235	-
Warwickshire	+10	2	£250	-
Worcestershire	-2	1	£275	-

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VB.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 99 (100.00 %) VB.NET 1 99 (100.00 %) .NET 2 61 (61.62 %) SQL Server 3 46 (46.46 %) ASP.NET 4 31 (31.31 %) SQL Server 2005 5 28 (28.28 %) VB 6 27 (27.27 %) SQL 7 25 (25.25 %) SQL Server 2000 8 17 (17.17 %) Visual Studio 9 16 (16.16 %) XML 9 16 (16.16 %) Migration 10 15 (15.15 %) AJAX 10 15 (15.15 %) HTML 10 15 (15.15 %) JavaScript 11 14 (14.14 %) WebServices

12 12 (12.12 %) CSS 13 11 (11.11 %) VB6 14 10 (10.10 %) Manufacturing 14 10 (10.10 %) E-Commerce 15 9 (9.091 %) C# 16 8 (8.081 %) WinForms 16 8 (8.081 %) N-Tier 16 8 (8.081 %) OO 17 7 (7.071 %) Windows 17 7 (7.071 %) Web Development 18 6 (6.061 %) MySQL 18 6 (6.061 %) Finance 19 5 (5.051 %) SharePoint 20 4 (4.040 %) ASP 20 4 (4.040 %) VBScript

VB.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 99 (100.00 %) .NET 2 46 (46.46 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (16.16 %) XML 4 15 (15.15 %) AJAX 4 15 (15.15 %) HTML 5 14 (14.14 %) WebServices 6 12 (12.12 %) CSS 7 8 (8.081 %) WinForms 8 4 (4.040 %) .NET Framework 8 4 (4.040 %) ASP 9 2 (2.020 %) XSLT 9 2 (2.020 %) XHTML 9 2 (2.020 %) WCF 10 1 (1.010 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (1.010 %) EDI 10 1 (1.010 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.051 %) SharePoint 2 4 (4.040 %) CMS 3 1 (1.010 %) ESB 3 1 (1.010 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.010 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.020 %) Internet 2 1 (1.010 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 61 (61.62 %) SQL Server 2 31 (31.31 %) SQL Server 2005 3 25 (25.25 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (6.061 %) MySQL 5 4 (4.040 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (3.030 %) MS Access 7 2 (2.020 %) OLTP 7 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (1.010 %) RDBMS 8 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 17 (17.17 %) Visual Studio
General 1 10 (10.10 %) Manufacturing 2 6 (6.061 %) Finance 3 2 (2.020 %) Government 3 2 (2.020 %) Local Government 3 2 (2.020 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.010 %) Health 4 1 (1.010 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.081 %) N-Tier 2 2 (2.020 %) EPoS 2 2 (2.020 %) W3C 2 2 (2.020 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.010 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.010 %) PDA 3 1 (1.010 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 7 (7.071 %) Windows 2 3 (3.030 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (16.16 %) Migration 2 10 (10.10 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (8.081 %) OO 4 7 (7.071 %) Web Development 5 3 (3.030 %) ERP 5 3 (3.030 %) SEO 5 3 (3.030 %) Requirements Management 6 2 (2.020 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (2.020 %) OOD 6 2 (2.020 %) UML 6 2 (2.020 %) OOA/OOD 6 2 (2.020 %) Web Design 6 2 (2.020 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.010 %) Penetration Testing 7 1 (1.010 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (1.010 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (1.010 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.010 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.010 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (1.010 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 99 (100.00 %) VB.NET 2 28 (28.28 %) VB 3 27 (27.27 %) SQL 4 15 (15.15 %) JavaScript 5 11 (11.11 %) VB6 6 9 (9.091 %) C# 7 4 (4.040 %) VBScript 8 3 (3.030 %) C 9 2 (2.020 %) C++ 9 2 (2.020 %) VBA 10 1 (1.010 %) Transact-SQL	Vendors 1 4 (4.040 %) Microsoft 2 3 (3.030 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.010 %) Citrix 3 1 (1.010 %) Infragistics