The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 17 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB6 21 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 14.19% - 0.719%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.27% - 0.870%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 1
Average salary £20,000 - £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
109 67 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 73.65% 63.21% 82.73%
Number of salaries quoted 90 64 111
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%
VB6
Oxfordshire

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Abingdon VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VB6.

1 25 (100.00%) VB
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
1 25 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 25 (100.00%) OOP
1 25 (100.00%) OO
1 25 (100.00%) Degree
2 23 (92.00%) SC Cleared
2 23 (92.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (92.00%) MS Project
2 23 (92.00%) MS Office
2 23 (92.00%) XML
2 23 (92.00%) Oracle
2 23 (92.00%) Java
3 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
3 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.000%) QA
3 2 (8.000%) WCF
3 2 (8.000%) WPF
3 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.000%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (8.000%) C#
3 2 (8.000%) Migration
3 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
3 2 (8.000%) SQL
3 2 (8.000%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.000%) Windows

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (92.00%) XML
3 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
3 2 (8.000%) WCF
3 2 (8.000%) WPF
Applications
1 23 (92.00%) MS Project
1 23 (92.00%) MS Office
2 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 25 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Analyst
2 11 (44.00%) Analyst Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Trainee Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Trainee
4 2 (8.000%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
1 2 (8.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) OOP
1 25 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (8.000%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) VB
2 23 (92.00%) Java
3 2 (8.000%) C#
3 2 (8.000%) SQL
3 2 (8.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Degree
2 23 (92.00%) SC Cleared
2 23 (92.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
1 23 (92.00%) Oracle