The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB6 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 1.195% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.362% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £37,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
127 105 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 50.60% 50.97% 63.19%
Number of salaries quoted 123 99 102
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +9.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB6
Bedfordshire

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 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%) VB
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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 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%) VB
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Telerik