West Yorkshire VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the West Yorkshire 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Royston Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	53
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	51	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	7.578 %	6.677 %
Daily rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum daily rate	£219	£257
Average daily rate	£235	£273
% change on same period last year	-14.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£15.01
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£18.76
% change on same period last year	+73.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£22.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.84	£30.29
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Programming Languages West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	673	644
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.897 %	0.652 %
Daily rates quoted	140	80
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£296
Average daily rate	£302	£315
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.96	£25.74
Average hourly rate	£27.74	£27.74
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.52	£29.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the West Yorkshire 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 within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds	+4	32	£235	+17.50 %
Bradford	+5	6	-	-
Halifax	-14	3	-	-
Wakefield	0	1	-	-
Batley	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 77 (56.20 %) SQL Server 2 74 (54.01 %) VB6 3 70 (51.09 %) .NET 4 54 (39.42 %) C# 5 45 (32.85 %) ASP.NET 6 39 (28.47 %) Finance 6 39 (28.47 %) ASP 7 37 (27.01 %) SQL 8 32 (23.36 %) HTML 8 32 (23.36 %) XML 9 28 (20.44 %) SQL Server 2000 10 24 (17.52 %) COM+ 11 22 (16.06 %) Microsoft 12 21 (15.33 %) MS Excel 12 21 (15.33 %) Oracle

12 21 (15.33 %) .NET Framework 12 21 (15.33 %) Unit Testing 13 18 (13.14 %) IIS 14 17 (12.41 %) Visual Studio 14 17 (12.41 %) ADO.NET 15 16 (11.68 %) VB.NET 16 15 (10.95 %) ADO 16 15 (10.95 %) Windows 17 14 (10.22 %) VBScript 18 13 (9.489 %) JavaScript 18 13 (9.489 %) SQL Server 2005 19 11 (8.029 %) UML 19 11 (8.029 %) OO 19 11 (8.029 %) MS Access 20 10 (7.299 %) BusinessObjects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 70 (51.09 %) .NET 2 45 (32.85 %) ASP.NET 3 39 (28.47 %) ASP 4 32 (23.36 %) HTML 4 32 (23.36 %) XML 5 24 (17.52 %) COM+ 6 21 (15.33 %) .NET Framework 7 17 (12.41 %) ADO.NET 8 15 (10.95 %) ADO 9 7 (5.109 %) WebServices 10 6 (4.380 %) XSL 10 6 (4.380 %) XSLT 10 6 (4.380 %) WinForms 10 6 (4.380 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 5 (3.650 %) CSS 12 3 (2.190 %) DCOM 12 3 (2.190 %) WCF 12 3 (2.190 %) WF 13 2 (1.460 %) XHTML 13 2 (1.460 %) XML Messaging	Application Platforms 1 18 (13.14 %) IIS 2 5 (3.650 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (1.460 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.730 %) SAS
Applications 1 21 (15.33 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.460 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (0.730 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.190 %) SSH 2 2 (1.460 %) CTI 3 1 (0.730 %) Ethernet 3 1 (0.730 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 77 (56.20 %) SQL Server 2 28 (20.44 %) SQL Server 2000 3 13 (9.489 %) SQL Server 2005 4 11 (8.029 %) MS Access 5 10 (7.299 %) BusinessObjects 6 6 (4.380 %) SQL Server 7 7 5 (3.650 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 5 (3.650 %) Oracle 9i 8 4 (2.920 %) Oracle Reports 9 3 (2.190 %) Crystal Reports 9 3 (2.190 %) Datawarehouse 9 3 (2.190 %) TOAD 9 3 (2.190 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.730 %) Base SAS	Development Applications 1 17 (12.41 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (5.839 %) NUnit 3 5 (3.650 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.460 %) InstallShield 5 1 (0.730 %) TestDirector
General 1 39 (28.47 %) Finance 2 7 (5.109 %) Banking 3 5 (3.650 %) Health 3 5 (3.650 %) Insurance 3 5 (3.650 %) Telecoms 4 3 (2.190 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (2.190 %) Retail 5 2 (1.460 %) International Banking 6 1 (0.730 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (0.730 %) Education 6 1 (0.730 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.730 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 105 (76.64 %) Developer 2 41 (29.93 %) VB Developer 3 33 (24.09 %) .NET Developer 4 31 (22.63 %) VB6 Developer 5 24 (17.52 %) Analyst 6 17 (12.41 %) C# Developer 7 11 (8.029 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 9 (6.569 %) SQL Developer 8 9 (6.569 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 7 (5.109 %) Analyst Developer 10 6 (4.380 %) VB.NET Developer 10 6 (4.380 %) Technical Analyst 10 6 (4.380 %) Oracle Developer 10 6 (4.380 %) Information Analyst 11 4 (2.920 %) PL/SQL Developer 11 4 (2.920 %) SQL Server Developer 11 4 (2.920 %) Applications Developer 11 4 (2.920 %) Senior Developer 11 4 (2.920 %) Lead Developer 12 3 (2.190 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (4.380 %) NHS 2 5 (3.650 %) N-Tier 3 2 (1.460 %) Fat Client 3 2 (1.460 %) Thin Client 4 1 (0.730 %) AS400 4 1 (0.730 %) IVR 4 1 (0.730 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 15 (10.95 %) Windows 2 8 (5.839 %) UNIX 3 6 (4.380 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (2.190 %) Windows NT 5 2 (1.460 %) AIX 5 2 (1.460 %) HPUX 5 2 (1.460 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (15.33 %) Unit Testing 2 11 (8.029 %) UML 2 11 (8.029 %) OO 3 10 (7.299 %) ERD 4 5 (3.650 %) System Testing 4 5 (3.650 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (3.650 %) Configuration Management 5 4 (2.920 %) Migration 6 3 (2.190 %) Agile Software Development 6 3 (2.190 %) Workflow 6 3 (2.190 %) OOD 7 2 (1.460 %) SOA 7 2 (1.460 %) Security Management 7 2 (1.460 %) Integration Testing 7 2 (1.460 %) Web Development 7 2 (1.460 %) Content Management 8 1 (0.730 %) Information Management 8 1 (0.730 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (0.730 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (0.730 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 74 (54.01 %) VB6 2 54 (39.42 %) C# 3 37 (27.01 %) SQL 4 16 (11.68 %) VB.NET 5 14 (10.22 %) VBScript 6 13 (9.489 %) JavaScript 7 7 (5.109 %) PL/SQL 7 7 (5.109 %) VBA 8 5 (3.650 %) Shell Script 9 3 (2.190 %) C 9 3 (2.190 %) C++ 10 2 (1.460 %) Perl 10 2 (1.460 %) Transact-SQL 11 1 (0.730 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (1.460 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.460 %) BS7799 2 1 (0.730 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (3.650 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (1.460 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 22 (16.06 %) Microsoft 2 21 (15.33 %) Oracle 3 10 (7.299 %) Business Objects 4 4 (2.920 %) HP 5 2 (1.460 %) Lotus