West Midlands VB6 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) 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 VB6 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Londonderry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	74
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	48	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	4.724 %	5.369 %
Daily rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£203
Average daily rate	£296	£226
% change on same period last year	+30.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£249
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£315
% change on same period last year	-8.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£29.63
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£31.81
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.78	£33.01
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Programming Languages West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1016	1099
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.354 %	1.112 %
Daily rates quoted	205	207
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£291
Average daily rate	£306	£306
% change on same period last year	+0.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	104
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.98	£25.14
Average hourly rate	£30.28	£27.18
% change on same period last year	+11.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.59	£29.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB6 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.

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB6 across the West Midlands region.

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB6 across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the West Midlands region.

VB6
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 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
Staffordshire	+14	17	£350	-
Birmingham	+21	11	£215	-5.14 %
Wolverhampton	+3	11	£321	-
Halesowen	-	1	£200	-
Shropshire	-7	1	-	-

VB6 England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 77 (100.00 %) VB 2 56 (72.73 %) .NET 3 45 (58.44 %) SQL Server 4 36 (46.75 %) VB.NET 5 27 (35.06 %) SQL Server 2000 6 21 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 7 18 (23.38 %) SQL 8 15 (19.48 %) ASP.NET 9 14 (18.18 %) XML 10 12 (15.58 %) OO 10 12 (15.58 %) ASP 11 10 (12.99 %) C# 12 8 (10.39 %) Web Development 13 7 (9.091 %) C++ 13 7 (9.091 %) VBScript

13 7 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 14 6 (7.792 %) Windows 14 6 (7.792 %) XSLT 14 6 (7.792 %) Finance 14 6 (7.792 %) Migration 14 6 (7.792 %) Internet 14 6 (7.792 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 5 (6.494 %) .NET Framework 15 5 (6.494 %) OLTP 15 5 (6.494 %) UML 15 5 (6.494 %) Visual Studio 15 5 (6.494 %) HTML 16 4 (5.195 %) Data Modelling 16 4 (5.195 %) Business Analysis 17 3 (3.896 %) OOP

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 56 (72.73 %) .NET 2 15 (19.48 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (18.18 %) XML 4 12 (15.58 %) ASP 5 6 (7.792 %) XSLT 6 5 (6.494 %) .NET Framework 6 5 (6.494 %) HTML 7 3 (3.896 %) XSL 8 2 (2.597 %) ActiveX 8 2 (2.597 %) DAO 8 2 (2.597 %) ADO 8 2 (2.597 %) COM+ 8 2 (2.597 %) WebServices 9 1 (1.299 %) DCOM 9 1 (1.299 %) CSS 9 1 (1.299 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.299 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.597 %) IIS 2 1 (1.299 %) MTS 2 1 (1.299 %) ColdFusion
Communications & Networking 1 6 (7.792 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 45 (58.44 %) SQL Server 2 27 (35.06 %) SQL Server 2000 3 21 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 5 6 (7.792 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 5 (6.494 %) OLTP 7 1 (1.299 %) RDBMS 7 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (1.299 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 5 (6.494 %) Visual Studio	General 1 6 (7.792 %) Finance 2 2 (2.597 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.597 %) Banking 3 1 (1.299 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.299 %) Local Government 3 1 (1.299 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.299 %) International Banking 3 1 (1.299 %) Education 3 1 (1.299 %) Government
Job Titles 1 54 (70.13 %) Developer 2 23 (29.87 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (23.38 %) VB Developer 4 17 (22.08 %) VB6 Developer 5 16 (20.78 %) Architect 6 11 (14.29 %) VB.NET Developer 7 10 (12.99 %) Software Developer 8 8 (10.39 %) Analyst 9 7 (9.091 %) Web Developer 9 7 (9.091 %) Software Architect 9 7 (9.091 %) SQL Developer 10 6 (7.792 %) Web Architect 10 6 (7.792 %) Analyst Programmer 10 6 (7.792 %) Programmer 10 6 (7.792 %) Development Specialist 10 6 (7.792 %) VB Analyst Programmer 11 5 (6.494 %) VB6 Analyst Programmer 11 5 (6.494 %) Analyst Developer 12 4 (5.195 %) Applications Developer 12 4 (5.195 %) .NET Architect	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.299 %) N-Tier 1 1 (1.299 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 6 (7.792 %) Windows 2 1 (1.299 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.58 %) OO 2 8 (10.39 %) Web Development 3 6 (7.792 %) Migration 4 5 (6.494 %) UML 5 4 (5.195 %) Data Modelling 5 4 (5.195 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (3.896 %) OOP 7 1 (1.299 %) RUP 7 1 (1.299 %) CRM 7 1 (1.299 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.299 %) Validation 7 1 (1.299 %) Document Management 7 1 (1.299 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 77 (100.00 %) VB 2 36 (46.75 %) VB.NET 3 18 (23.38 %) SQL 4 10 (12.99 %) C# 5 7 (9.091 %) C++ 5 7 (9.091 %) VBScript 6 2 (2.597 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.299 %) Java 7 1 (1.299 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.299 %) MCAD 1 1 (1.299 %) MCSE 1 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 1 (1.299 %) Oracle 1 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft 1 1 (1.299 %) Compaq 1 1 (1.299 %) Northgate