The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Winchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 17 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 Winchester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 9 9 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing VB6 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Winchester 6.349% 8.000% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £303 £273 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £280
% change year-on-year
- +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -28.57%
All Programming Languages
Winchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
26 16 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Winchester 41.27% 64.00% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 4
Average daily rate £304 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% +4.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.48% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VB6
Hampshire

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VB6 across the Winchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Winchester VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Daily Rate Trend

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

Winchester VB6 Daily Rate Trend

VB6
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Winchester 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 4 (100.00%) VB
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) ASP
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) LabVIEW
3 2 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Winchester 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) LabVIEW
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Web Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) VB6 Developer
2 1 (25.00%) VB Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle