The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Programming Languages category for the West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 80 68 63
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -5
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 11 22 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.864% 1.360% 0.722%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.483% 4.264% 2.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 6
Average daily rate £325 £365 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% +40.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £338 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £380 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.64% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
443 516 354
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 34.80% 31.89% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 311 178
Average daily rate £280 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 15
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £12.00 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £37.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VB.NET
Yorkshire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB.NET across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Yorkshire VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire VB.NET Daily Rate Trend

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire VB.NET Hourly Rate Trend

VB.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leeds -5 8 £325 -10.95%
Bradford - 1 £325 -
VB.NET
Yorkshire

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 48 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (72.92%) SQL Server
3 32 (66.67%) SQL
4 26 (54.17%) C#
5 21 (43.75%) ASP.NET
6 14 (29.17%) WinForms
7 13 (27.08%) PL/SQL
8 12 (25.00%) Visual Studio
8 12 (25.00%) Oracle
9 10 (20.83%) Web Services
9 10 (20.83%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
10 9 (18.75%) Web Development
10 9 (18.75%) VB
11 8 (16.67%) MS Excel
12 7 (14.58%) Windows
12 7 (14.58%) VBA
12 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
12 7 (14.58%) Finance
12 7 (14.58%) WCF
12 7 (14.58%) VB6
13 6 (12.50%) WPF
13 6 (12.50%) HTML
13 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
14 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
14 5 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
14 5 (10.42%) Ajax
15 4 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
15 4 (8.333%) N-Tier

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 48 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (43.75%) ASP.NET
3 14 (29.17%) WinForms
4 10 (20.83%) Web Services
5 7 (14.58%) WCF
6 6 (12.50%) WPF
6 6 (12.50%) HTML
7 5 (10.42%) Ajax
8 4 (8.333%) XML
8 4 (8.333%) CSS
9 3 (6.250%) XSLT
9 3 (6.250%) jQuery
9 3 (6.250%) .NET Framework
10 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 2 (4.167%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 2 (4.167%) ADO.NET
10 2 (4.167%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 10 (20.83%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.167%) Umbraco
3 2 (4.167%) DotNetNuke
3 2 (4.167%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (4.167%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.167%) MS Project
3 1 (2.083%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (72.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (6.250%) MS Access
3 3 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.167%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (4.167%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.083%) OLAP
5 1 (2.083%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.083%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.083%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (4.167%) NUnit
3 2 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (4.167%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.083%) PVCS
4 1 (2.083%) WebSpeed
4 1 (2.083%) JIRA
General
1 7 (14.58%) Finance
2 2 (4.167%) Law
3 1 (2.083%) Automotive
3 1 (2.083%) Legal
3 1 (2.083%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 44 (91.67%) Developer
2 30 (62.50%) .NET Developer
3 25 (52.08%) VB.NET Developer
4 5 (10.42%) C# Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (6.250%) BizTalk Developer
7 2 (4.167%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.167%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior VB.NET Developer
7 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.167%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior SQL Developer
7 2 (4.167%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.083%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.083%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.083%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (8.333%) N-Tier
2 2 (4.167%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.083%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Web Development
2 5 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (8.333%) MVC
3 4 (8.333%) OO
4 3 (6.250%) Unit Testing
5 2 (4.167%) Software Testing
5 2 (4.167%) Web Application Development
5 2 (4.167%) Configuration Management
5 2 (4.167%) Project Management
5 2 (4.167%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.167%) Scrum
6 1 (2.083%) CRM
6 1 (2.083%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.083%) Migration
6 1 (2.083%) Analytics
6 1 (2.083%) Business Transformation
6 1 (2.083%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (2.083%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.083%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (66.67%) SQL
2 26 (54.17%) C#
3 13 (27.08%) PL/SQL
4 9 (18.75%) VB
5 7 (14.58%) VBA
5 7 (14.58%) VB6
6 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.083%) Delphi
8 1 (2.083%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.167%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.167%) EPiServer
3 2 (4.167%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.167%) Sybase
4 1 (2.083%) Progress
4 1 (2.083%) Sculptor
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