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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 65 55 34
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -21
Permanent jobs citing VB 30 30 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.755% 3.086% 4.852%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.500% 6.135% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 23 24 41
Average salary £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.45% -5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,900 £31,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,700 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
400 489 381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 36.73% 50.31% 45.09%
Number of salaries quoted 361 408 368
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £48,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
East of England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire VB Salary Histogram

VB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton +10 23 £31,000 -17.33%
Bedford -7 3 £37,500 +25.00%
Dunstable - 1 £35,000 -
VB
East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 50 (73.53%) SQL
2 43 (63.24%) .NET
3 37 (54.41%) Oracle
4 27 (39.71%) SQL Server
5 26 (38.24%) ASP
6 25 (36.76%) XML
7 23 (33.82%) VB6
8 22 (32.35%) VB.NET
9 21 (30.88%) Windows
9 21 (30.88%) MS Excel
10 20 (29.41%) VBA
10 20 (29.41%) Crystal Reports
10 20 (29.41%) Java
10 20 (29.41%) Degree
11 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
11 19 (27.94%) C#
11 19 (27.94%) HTML
12 18 (26.47%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (25.00%) MS Access
14 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
15 13 (19.12%) Unit Testing
16 12 (17.65%) Data Analysis
16 12 (17.65%) MS Office
16 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (14.71%) FoxPro (VFP)
17 10 (14.71%) VSS/SourceSafe
17 10 (14.71%) MVC
17 10 (14.71%) XAML
17 10 (14.71%) WCF
17 10 (14.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 43 (63.24%) .NET
2 26 (38.24%) ASP
3 25 (36.76%) XML
4 19 (27.94%) HTML
5 10 (14.71%) WCF
6 9 (13.24%) Silverlight
7 8 (11.76%) ASP.NET
7 8 (11.76%) WinForms
8 6 (8.824%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 6 (8.824%) .NET Framework
8 6 (8.824%) WF
8 6 (8.824%) Web Services
9 5 (7.353%) CSS
10 4 (5.882%) WPF
10 4 (5.882%) LINQ
11 2 (2.941%) jQuery
11 2 (2.941%) NHibernate
12 1 (1.471%) XSL
12 1 (1.471%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (1.471%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.941%) WinCC
1 2 (2.941%) IIS
2 1 (1.471%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (30.88%) MS Excel
2 12 (17.65%) MS Office
3 2 (2.941%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.941%) JDE World
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.471%) Intranet
1 1 (1.471%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) SQL Server
2 20 (29.41%) Crystal Reports
3 18 (26.47%) Oracle Reports
4 17 (25.00%) MS Access
5 10 (14.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (8.824%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (7.353%) RDBMS
7 5 (7.353%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (7.353%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.412%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (4.412%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (1.471%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (10.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (5.882%) MSTest
3 4 (5.882%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (5.882%) JIRA
3 4 (5.882%) PowerBuilder
3 4 (5.882%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.941%) NUnit
General
1 7 (10.29%) Manufacturing
2 4 (5.882%) Automotive
3 2 (2.941%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.471%) Marketing
4 1 (1.471%) Retail
4 1 (1.471%) Military
4 1 (1.471%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (42.65%) Developer
2 28 (41.18%) Analyst
3 18 (26.47%) Support Analyst
4 13 (19.12%) Technical Support
4 13 (19.12%) Graduate
4 13 (19.12%) Graduate Support Analyst
4 13 (19.12%) Technical Support Analyst
4 13 (19.12%) Technical Analyst
5 11 (16.18%) Software Developer
6 7 (10.29%) C# Developer
7 6 (8.824%) .NET Developer
7 6 (8.824%) SQL Developer
8 5 (7.353%) Applications Support
8 5 (7.353%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (7.353%) VB Developer
8 5 (7.353%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Forecast Analyst
9 4 (5.882%) VB6 Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Capacity Analyst
10 3 (4.412%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.824%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.882%) Wiki
3 3 (4.412%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.941%) Visualisation
4 2 (2.941%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.941%) Robotics
4 2 (2.941%) SCADA
5 1 (1.471%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.471%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Windows
2 3 (4.412%) UNIX
2 3 (4.412%) Linux
3 1 (1.471%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.12%) Unit Testing
2 12 (17.65%) Data Analysis
2 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (14.71%) MVC
4 6 (8.824%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (8.824%) Performance Improvement
5 5 (7.353%) TDD
5 5 (7.353%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (5.882%) Kanban
6 4 (5.882%) SOA
6 4 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (5.882%) CRM
7 3 (4.412%) OO
7 3 (4.412%) ERP
7 3 (4.412%) Workflow
8 2 (2.941%) Business Analysis
8 2 (2.941%) Use Case
8 2 (2.941%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (2.941%) Performance Management
8 2 (2.941%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (73.53%) SQL
2 23 (33.82%) VB6
3 22 (32.35%) VB.NET
4 20 (29.41%) VBA
4 20 (29.41%) Java
5 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
5 19 (27.94%) C#
6 10 (14.71%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 10 (14.71%) XAML
7 9 (13.24%) T-SQL
8 6 (8.824%) VBScript
9 5 (7.353%) Ruby
10 4 (5.882%) PL/SQL
11 3 (4.412%) VC++
12 2 (2.941%) C
13 1 (1.471%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (5.882%) HNC
2 4 (5.882%) HND
Vendors
1 37 (54.41%) Oracle
2 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.882%) Telerik
4 3 (4.412%) JD Edwards
5 2 (2.941%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.941%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (2.941%) Siemens
6 1 (1.471%) Twitter
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