Wiltshire VB.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Wiltshire 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 25 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 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 Newbury 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 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	59
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	7.910 %	4.683 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.25	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£33.50	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-4.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.75	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£34.57
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Programming Languages Wiltshire
Matching contract IT job ads	177	363
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.236 %	0.367 %
Daily rates quoted	45	54
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£330
Average daily rate	£346	£351
% change on same period last year	-1.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.85	£32.57
Average hourly rate	£35.07	£34.78
% change on same period last year	+0.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.30	£36.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB.NET South West

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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

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 Wiltshire region.

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon	+1	14	-	-

VB.NET South West

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 42 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (69.05 %) ASP.NET 3 25 (59.52 %) SQL Server 4 21 (50.00 %) C# 5 20 (47.62 %) XML 6 14 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 7 12 (28.57 %) SQL 7 12 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 8 11 (26.19 %) XSLT 9 10 (23.81 %) VB 9 10 (23.81 %) JavaScript 10 9 (21.43 %) Oracle 10 9 (21.43 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 9 (21.43 %) ADO.NET 10 9 (21.43 %) VB6

11 8 (19.05 %) VBA 12 7 (16.67 %) .NET Framework 12 7 (16.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 6 (14.29 %) WebServices 14 5 (11.90 %) SOAP 14 5 (11.90 %) Flash 14 5 (11.90 %) SharePoint 14 5 (11.90 %) IIS 14 5 (11.90 %) Dreamweaver 15 4 (9.524 %) SVG 15 4 (9.524 %) WinForms 15 4 (9.524 %) VBScript 15 4 (9.524 %) DHTML 15 4 (9.524 %) Windows 16 3 (7.143 %) UML

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 42 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (69.05 %) ASP.NET 3 20 (47.62 %) XML 4 11 (26.19 %) XSLT 5 9 (21.43 %) ADO.NET 6 7 (16.67 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (14.29 %) WebServices 8 5 (11.90 %) SOAP 9 4 (9.524 %) SVG 9 4 (9.524 %) WinForms 10 3 (7.143 %) XSD 11 2 (4.762 %) HTML 11 2 (4.762 %) ASP 11 2 (4.762 %) CSS 11 2 (4.762 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 1 (2.381 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.90 %) IIS 1 5 (11.90 %) SharePoint 2 2 (4.762 %) CICS 2 2 (4.762 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.381 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.381 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (7.143 %) Internet 2 1 (2.381 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (59.52 %) SQL Server 2 14 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 12 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (16.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (7.143 %) DB2 5 3 (7.143 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (2.381 %) OLAP 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (2.381 %) EDRMS 6 1 (2.381 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 9 (21.43 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 5 (11.90 %) Flash 2 5 (11.90 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (2.381 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (4.762 %) Banking 1 2 (4.762 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 39 (92.86 %) Developer 2 19 (45.24 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (21.43 %) Web Developer 4 8 (19.05 %) C# Developer 4 8 (19.05 %) VB.NET Developer 5 7 (16.67 %) Analyst 6 6 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (11.90 %) Analyst Developer 8 4 (9.524 %) Junior Developer 8 4 (9.524 %) Junior 8 4 (9.524 %) VBA Developer 8 4 (9.524 %) Junior .NET Developer 8 4 (9.524 %) Junior VBA Developer 8 4 (9.524 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (7.143 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (7.143 %) .NET Web Developer 9 3 (7.143 %) Database Developer 9 3 (7.143 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (7.143 %) Programmer 10 2 (4.762 %) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.143 %) Client/Server 2 2 (4.762 %) Mainframe 3 1 (2.381 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 4 (9.524 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.143 %) OO 1 3 (7.143 %) UML 2 2 (4.762 %) OOP 3 1 (2.381 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (2.381 %) Content Management 3 1 (2.381 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (2.381 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 21 (50.00 %) C# 2 12 (28.57 %) SQL 3 10 (23.81 %) VB 3 10 (23.81 %) JavaScript 4 9 (21.43 %) VB6 5 8 (19.05 %) VBA 6 4 (9.524 %) VBScript 6 4 (9.524 %) DHTML 7 2 (4.762 %) COBOL
Vendors 1 9 (21.43 %) Oracle 2 3 (7.143 %) Microsoft