The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 20 12 23
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +11
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 18 11 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 12.24% 10.68% 4.225%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.51% 17.19% 5.172%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 4
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Programming Languages
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
109 64 116
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 74.15% 62.14% 81.69%
Number of salaries quoted 90 61 112
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £35,000 £24,000
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.NET
Oxfordshire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Abingdon VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

Abingdon VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VB.NET.

1 31 (100.00%) C#
1 31 (100.00%) .NET
1 31 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 31 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 21 (67.74%) ASP
3 12 (38.71%) VB
3 12 (38.71%) HTML
3 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 12 (38.71%) WinForms
3 12 (38.71%) Web Design
3 12 (38.71%) CSS
4 10 (32.26%) MVC
4 10 (32.26%) Ajax
4 10 (32.26%) jQuery
4 10 (32.26%) Mobile App
4 10 (32.26%) Mobile Application Development
5 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (29.03%) SQL
5 9 (29.03%) T-SQL
5 9 (29.03%) IIS

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VB.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (100.00%) .NET
1 31 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 21 (67.74%) ASP
3 12 (38.71%) HTML
3 12 (38.71%) WinForms
3 12 (38.71%) CSS
4 10 (32.26%) Ajax
4 10 (32.26%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 9 (29.03%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 31 (100.00%) Developer
1 31 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 17 (54.84%) ASP.NET Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Software Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Software Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Web Design
2 10 (32.26%) MVC
2 10 (32.26%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (38.71%) VB
2 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 9 (29.03%) T-SQL