The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB 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 Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 17 21 29
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +8
Permanent jobs citing VB 19 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 13.57% 2.804% 0.730%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.27% 4.412% 0.943%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 1
Average salary £20,000 - £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
104 68 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 74.29% 63.55% 77.37%
Number of salaries quoted 89 64 102
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £35,000 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Oxfordshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Abingdon VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VB.

1 35 (100.00%) .NET
1 35 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (65.71%) OOP
2 23 (65.71%) OO
2 23 (65.71%) VB6
2 23 (65.71%) Degree
3 21 (60.00%) XML
3 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 21 (60.00%) MS Project
3 21 (60.00%) MS Office
3 21 (60.00%) Oracle
3 21 (60.00%) Java
3 21 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 14 (40.00%) C#
5 12 (34.29%) HTML
5 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (34.29%) ASP
5 12 (34.29%) ASP.NET
5 12 (34.29%) CSS
5 12 (34.29%) WinForms
5 12 (34.29%) Web Design
5 12 (34.29%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.714%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.714%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.714%) QA
6 2 (5.714%) WCF
6 2 (5.714%) WPF
6 2 (5.714%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (5.714%) Windows

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (60.00%) XML
3 12 (34.29%) WinForms
3 12 (34.29%) ASP
3 12 (34.29%) ASP.NET
3 12 (34.29%) CSS
3 12 (34.29%) HTML
4 2 (5.714%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.714%) WCF
4 2 (5.714%) WPF
Applications
1 21 (60.00%) MS Project
1 21 (60.00%) MS Office
2 2 (5.714%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 35 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) .NET Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Analyst Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Analyst
4 8 (22.86%) Trainee Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Trainee
5 2 (5.714%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.714%) Windows
1 2 (5.714%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) OOP
1 23 (65.71%) OO
2 12 (34.29%) Web Design
3 2 (5.714%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (5.714%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) VB6
2 21 (60.00%) Java
3 14 (40.00%) C#
4 12 (34.29%) VB.NET
4 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.714%) SQL
5 2 (5.714%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (65.71%) Degree
2 21 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) QA
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Oracle
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft