The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 90 - 73
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB6 5 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.459% - 0.118%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.250% - 0.262%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
Average salary £37,500 - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
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%
VB6
East of England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 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
Bedford - 3 £37,500 -
Dunstable - 1 £35,000 -
VB6
East of England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 23 (100.00%) VB
2 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 22 (95.65%) SQL
3 14 (60.87%) C#
4 13 (56.52%) Unit Testing
5 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
6 10 (43.48%) XAML
6 10 (43.48%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 10 (43.48%) WCF
7 9 (39.13%) Silverlight
7 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
7 9 (39.13%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 9 (39.13%) MVC
8 8 (34.78%) WinForms
9 7 (30.43%) ASP
9 7 (30.43%) T-SQL
9 7 (30.43%) Windows
9 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
10 6 (26.09%) Web Services
10 6 (26.09%) XML
10 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET
10 6 (26.09%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (26.09%) WF
11 5 (21.74%) Customer Engagement
11 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
11 5 (21.74%) Degree
11 5 (21.74%) TDD

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 10 (43.48%) WCF
3 9 (39.13%) Silverlight
4 8 (34.78%) WinForms
5 7 (30.43%) ASP
6 6 (26.09%) Web Services
6 6 (26.09%) XML
6 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET
6 6 (26.09%) WF
7 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
8 4 (17.39%) CSS
8 4 (17.39%) WPF
9 3 (13.04%) LINQ
10 2 (8.696%) NHibernate
10 2 (8.696%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (26.09%) Crystal Reports
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (4.348%) MySQL
6 1 (4.348%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (17.39%) PowerBuilder
3 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
3 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (17.39%) MSTest
4 2 (8.696%) NUnit
General
1 1 (4.348%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Software Developer
3 6 (26.09%) .NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) C# Developer
4 5 (21.74%) VB Developer
5 4 (17.39%) VB6 Developer
6 3 (13.04%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (8.696%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Applications Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Senior VB Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Senior VB6 Developer
7 2 (8.696%) .NET Applications Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Lead Software Developer
8 1 (4.348%) C# Application Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Junior
8 1 (4.348%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.348%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Wiki
2 3 (13.04%) N-Tier
3 2 (8.696%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 1 (4.348%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Unit Testing
2 9 (39.13%) MVC
3 5 (21.74%) Customer Engagement
3 5 (21.74%) TDD
4 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (17.39%) CRM
4 4 (17.39%) SOA
4 4 (17.39%) Kanban
5 3 (13.04%) OO
6 2 (8.696%) Web Development
6 2 (8.696%) Use Case
7 1 (4.348%) Web Application Development
7 1 (4.348%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) VB
2 22 (95.65%) SQL
3 14 (60.87%) C#
4 10 (43.48%) XAML
4 10 (43.48%) FoxPro (VFP)
5 7 (30.43%) T-SQL
6 5 (21.74%) Ruby
6 5 (21.74%) VBScript
6 5 (21.74%) VB.NET
7 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
8 3 (13.04%) VC++
8 3 (13.04%) VBA
9 1 (4.348%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) Telerik
4 2 (8.696%) DevExpress