The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 45 39 33
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -6
Permanent jobs citing VB 4 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 1.600% 1.951% 2.994%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.150% 3.810% 4.717%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 5
Average salary £37,500 £30,000 £26,661
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +12.52%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
127 105 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 50.80% 51.22% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 123 99 105
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Bedfordshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) CRM
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) PowerBuilder
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Telerik
1 4 (100.00%) VB6
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) WF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) PowerBuilder
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 4 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CRM
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Telerik