West Midlands VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the West Midlands 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.NET over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hull Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	40
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	138	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.184 %	0.101 %
As % of the category below	13.53 %	9.124 %
Daily rates quoted	35	14
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£277
Average daily rate	£310	£282
% change on same period last year	+9.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£314
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.30	£32.46
Average hourly rate	£36.05	£34.69
% change on same period last year	+3.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.80	£36.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.36	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Programming Languages West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1020	1096
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.358 %	1.111 %
Daily rates quoted	208	206
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£289
Average daily rate	£306	£304
% change on same period last year	+0.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	104
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.15	£25.14
Average hourly rate	£30.51	£27.18
% change on same period last year	+12.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.87	£29.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.36	£33.06
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
VB.NET 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
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

VB.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Staffordshire	+15	37	£358	+43.25 %
Birmingham	+16	30	£285	-7.46 %
Wolverhampton	+2	10	£398	-
Coventry	-13	7	£240	-
Warwickshire	+8	5	£250	-
Shropshire	-9	3	-	-
Worcestershire	-3	2	£275	-

VB.NET England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 242 (100.00 %) .NET 2 143 (59.09 %) SQL Server 3 125 (51.65 %) ASP.NET 4 81 (33.47 %) SQL Server 2005 5 72 (29.75 %) VB 6 67 (27.69 %) SQL 7 63 (26.03 %) SQL Server 2000 8 47 (19.42 %) XML 9 46 (19.01 %) C# 10 41 (16.94 %) Visual Studio 11 38 (15.70 %) JavaScript 12 36 (14.88 %) HTML 12 36 (14.88 %) VB6 13 33 (13.64 %) CSS 13 33 (13.64 %) WebServices

14 32 (13.22 %) Web Development 15 29 (11.98 %) OO 16 24 (9.917 %) Migration 17 23 (9.504 %) ASP 17 23 (9.504 %) AJAX 18 20 (8.264 %) VBScript 19 19 (7.851 %) Oracle 19 19 (7.851 %) Microsoft 20 18 (7.438 %) .NET Framework 21 17 (7.025 %) Finance 22 16 (6.612 %) Manufacturing 22 16 (6.612 %) WinForms 22 16 (6.612 %) Windows 23 14 (5.785 %) SharePoint 23 14 (5.785 %) E-Commerce

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 242 (100.00 %) .NET 2 125 (51.65 %) ASP.NET 3 47 (19.42 %) XML 4 36 (14.88 %) HTML 5 33 (13.64 %) CSS 5 33 (13.64 %) WebServices 6 23 (9.504 %) ASP 6 23 (9.504 %) AJAX 7 18 (7.438 %) .NET Framework 8 16 (6.612 %) WinForms 9 12 (4.959 %) XSLT 10 11 (4.545 %) ADO.NET 11 9 (3.719 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 6 (2.479 %) XHTML 13 4 (1.653 %) .NET Remoting 14 3 (1.240 %) WCF 15 1 (0.413 %) WPF 15 1 (0.413 %) Adobe Flex 15 1 (0.413 %) EDI 15 1 (0.413 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 14 (5.785 %) SharePoint 2 10 (4.132 %) IIS 3 7 (2.893 %) CMS 4 4 (1.653 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (0.826 %) LiveLink 6 1 (0.413 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 1 (0.413 %) ESB 6 1 (0.413 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (0.413 %) Apache 6 1 (0.413 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 1 (0.413 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.413 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.413 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 10 (4.132 %) Internet 2 3 (1.240 %) SSL 2 3 (1.240 %) Intranet 3 2 (0.826 %) Extranet 3 2 (0.826 %) Wireless 4 1 (0.413 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.413 %) Bluetooth 4 1 (0.413 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.413 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 143 (59.09 %) SQL Server 2 81 (33.47 %) SQL Server 2005 3 63 (26.03 %) SQL Server 2000 4 13 (5.372 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 11 (4.545 %) OLTP 5 11 (4.545 %) MySQL 6 4 (1.653 %) MS Access 6 4 (1.653 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (1.653 %) SQL Server 7 7 3 (1.240 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 3 (1.240 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (0.413 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.413 %) RDBMS 8 1 (0.413 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 41 (16.94 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.413 %) Flash 2 1 (0.413 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (0.413 %) Paros 2 1 (0.413 %) Fiddler	General 1 17 (7.025 %) Finance 2 16 (6.612 %) Manufacturing 3 5 (2.066 %) Government 4 4 (1.653 %) Back Office 5 3 (1.240 %) Telecoms 5 3 (1.240 %) Automotive 5 3 (1.240 %) Pensions 5 3 (1.240 %) Marketing 6 2 (0.826 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.413 %) Auditing 7 1 (0.413 %) Graphic Design 7 1 (0.413 %) International Banking 7 1 (0.413 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.413 %) Banking 7 1 (0.413 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 198 (81.82 %) Developer 2 148 (61.16 %) .NET Developer 3 100 (41.32 %) VB.NET Developer 4 38 (15.70 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 33 (13.64 %) Web Developer 6 25 (10.33 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 16 (6.612 %) SQL Developer 8 14 (5.785 %) C# Developer 9 13 (5.372 %) VB Developer 10 11 (4.545 %) Software Developer 11 10 (4.132 %) Applications Developer 11 10 (4.132 %) SQL Server Developer 11 10 (4.132 %) .NET Web Developer 12 9 (3.719 %) Analyst 13 8 (3.306 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 14 6 (2.479 %) Architect 14 6 (2.479 %) Development Specialist 14 6 (2.479 %) HTML Developer 15 5 (2.066 %) Senior .NET Developer 15 5 (2.066 %) VB6 Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (3.306 %) N-Tier 2 4 (1.653 %) NHS 3 3 (1.240 %) W3C 4 2 (0.826 %) EPoS 4 2 (0.826 %) Client/Server 4 2 (0.826 %) PDA 5 1 (0.413 %) E-Learning 5 1 (0.413 %) SCORM
Operating Systems 1 16 (6.612 %) Windows 2 4 (1.653 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (0.413 %) Linux 3 1 (0.413 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (13.22 %) Web Development 2 29 (11.98 %) OO 3 24 (9.917 %) Migration 4 14 (5.785 %) E-Commerce 5 8 (3.306 %) CRM 6 5 (2.066 %) UML 7 4 (1.653 %) ERP 7 4 (1.653 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (1.240 %) OOD 8 3 (1.240 %) SEO 8 3 (1.240 %) Requirements Management 9 2 (0.826 %) Time Management 9 2 (0.826 %) Business Analysis 9 2 (0.826 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (0.826 %) Web Design 9 2 (0.826 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (0.826 %) Content Management 9 2 (0.826 %) Workflow 9 2 (0.826 %) OOA/OOD 10 1 (0.413 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 72 (29.75 %) VB 2 67 (27.69 %) SQL 3 46 (19.01 %) C# 4 38 (15.70 %) JavaScript 5 36 (14.88 %) VB6 6 20 (8.264 %) VBScript 7 10 (4.132 %) C++ 8 7 (2.893 %) PHP 8 7 (2.893 %) Transact-SQL 9 6 (2.479 %) VBA 10 5 (2.066 %) PL/SQL 11 3 (1.240 %) C 12 1 (0.413 %) Delphi 12 1 (0.413 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 3 (1.240 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (0.826 %) MCAD 2 2 (0.826 %) Degree 3 1 (0.413 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.413 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.413 %) MCTS 3 1 (0.413 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.413 %) WAI 1 1 (0.413 %) QA	System Software 1 5 (2.066 %) MSMQ 2 1 (0.413 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (1.240 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 19 (7.851 %) Oracle 1 19 (7.851 %) Microsoft 2 1 (0.413 %) Adobe 2 1 (0.413 %) HP 2 1 (0.413 %) Citrix 2 1 (0.413 %) Infragistics 2 1 (0.413 %) Metastorm