The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 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 Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 30 19 37
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +18
Permanent jobs citing VB 5 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 3.597% 7.143% 4.348%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.630% 10.61% 8.537%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 7
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +23.07%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
108 66 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 77.70% 67.35% 50.93%
Number of salaries quoted 90 58 57
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Essex

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Basildon region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Basildon VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 11 (78.57%) VB.NET
1 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
1 11 (78.57%) XML
2 10 (71.43%) Java
3 9 (64.29%) Workflow
4 8 (57.14%) Finance
4 8 (57.14%) XSLT
5 7 (50.00%) Windows
5 7 (50.00%) SQL
5 7 (50.00%) C#
5 7 (50.00%) IIS
5 7 (50.00%) ASP.NET
6 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
6 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
6 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (42.86%) Wealth Management
6 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (35.71%) Degree
7 5 (35.71%) TDD
7 5 (35.71%) XSD
7 5 (35.71%) OO
7 5 (35.71%) VBScript
8 4 (28.57%) Oracle
8 4 (28.57%) VBA
8 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
9 3 (21.43%) Open Text
9 3 (21.43%) Kofax
9 3 (21.43%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (21.43%) DOM

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) XML
2 8 (57.14%) XSLT
3 7 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (35.71%) XSD
5 3 (21.43%) DOM
5 3 (21.43%) Silverlight
6 2 (14.29%) HTML
7 1 (7.143%) WinForms
7 1 (7.143%) VXML
7 1 (7.143%) NHibernate
7 1 (7.143%) CSS
7 1 (7.143%) XSL
7 1 (7.143%) jQuery
7 1 (7.143%) LINQ to SQL
7 1 (7.143%) WCF
7 1 (7.143%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (21.43%) Captiva
3 1 (7.143%) MSMQ
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco ICM
2 1 (7.143%) FTP
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.143%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) VBA Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Forms Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.143%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.143%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.143%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Workflow
2 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 6 (42.86%) Wealth Management
3 5 (35.71%) TDD
3 5 (35.71%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) UML
6 1 (7.143%) MVC
6 1 (7.143%) Information Management
6 1 (7.143%) Change Control
6 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) VB.NET
2 10 (71.43%) Java
3 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (35.71%) VBScript
5 4 (28.57%) VBA
6 2 (14.29%) COBOL
7 1 (7.143%) VB6
7 1 (7.143%) XPath
7 1 (7.143%) C++
7 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
7 1 (7.143%) Tcl
7 1 (7.143%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) Open Text
3 3 (21.43%) Kofax
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco