The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 67 80 45
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -35
Permanent jobs citing VB 42 22 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.493% 1.499% 3.537%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.462% 3.269% 9.160%
Number of salaries quoted 38 14 42
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £28,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +15.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £29,000 £24,100
10% offered a salary of more than £39,750 £46,750 £39,800
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
769 673 524
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 45.64% 45.84% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 669 622 481
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +15.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
West Midlands

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Birmingham VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 59 (78.67%) SQL Server
2 52 (69.33%) .NET
3 43 (57.33%) SQL
4 41 (54.67%) VB.NET
5 30 (40.00%) C#
5 30 (40.00%) ASP.NET
6 29 (38.67%) Windows
7 26 (34.67%) Oracle
8 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
9 20 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
10 15 (20.00%) WinForms
10 15 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (20.00%) Finance
11 13 (17.33%) Visual Studio
11 13 (17.33%) HTML
11 13 (17.33%) VB6
11 13 (17.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (16.00%) XML
13 11 (14.67%) SQL Server 2000
13 11 (14.67%) SharePoint
13 11 (14.67%) TDD
14 10 (13.33%) Degree
15 9 (12.00%) MCP
15 9 (12.00%) MS Excel
16 8 (10.67%) MCSD
16 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
16 8 (10.67%) VBScript
16 8 (10.67%) CSS
16 8 (10.67%) MVC
16 8 (10.67%) SQL Server Integration Services

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 52 (69.33%) .NET
2 30 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (20.00%) WinForms
4 13 (17.33%) HTML
5 12 (16.00%) XML
6 8 (10.67%) CSS
6 8 (10.67%) WCF
7 7 (9.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 7 (9.333%) Razor View Engine
7 7 (9.333%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (6.667%) XSLT
9 4 (5.333%) ASP
9 4 (5.333%) Web Services
9 4 (5.333%) Spring.NET
9 4 (5.333%) Castle Windsor
9 4 (5.333%) Ninject
9 4 (5.333%) Unity DI Container
10 2 (2.667%) XSL
10 2 (2.667%) DHTML
10 2 (2.667%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 11 (14.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (8.000%) IIS
4 4 (5.333%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (2.667%) Apache
5 2 (2.667%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.667%) MS Exchange
5 2 (2.667%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.667%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (2.667%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.333%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (1.333%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.333%) WebLogic Integration
6 1 (1.333%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.333%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.333%) MS Office
2 4 (5.333%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (5.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.000%) Agresso
3 2 (2.667%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.667%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.667%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.333%) Cognos Controller
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.000%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.000%) Internet
2 2 (2.667%) DNS
2 2 (2.667%) DHCP
2 2 (2.667%) FTP
2 2 (2.667%) Intranet
3 1 (1.333%) SSH
3 1 (1.333%) SSL
3 1 (1.333%) HTTP
3 1 (1.333%) Firewall
3 1 (1.333%) ADSL
3 1 (1.333%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (78.67%) SQL Server
2 20 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (17.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (14.67%) SQL Server 2000
5 8 (10.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (10.67%) SQL Server 2012
6 7 (9.333%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (5.333%) MS Access
9 4 (5.333%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (2.667%) GIS
10 2 (2.667%) Oracle Discoverer
11 1 (1.333%) SQLPlus
11 1 (1.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.667%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (5.333%) MSTest
3 4 (5.333%) NUnit
3 4 (5.333%) Rhino Mocks
3 4 (5.333%) Moq
4 3 (4.000%) Selenium
5 2 (2.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (2.667%) Git (software)
5 2 (2.667%) Subversion
6 1 (1.333%) WinRunner
6 1 (1.333%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 15 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (8.000%) Retail
3 4 (5.333%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.000%) Legal
5 2 (2.667%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.667%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.667%) Banking
6 1 (1.333%) Back Office
6 1 (1.333%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 49 (65.33%) Developer
2 25 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 14 (18.67%) Senior Developer
4 12 (16.00%) Analyst
5 9 (12.00%) VB.NET Developer
6 7 (9.333%) Programmer
7 6 (8.000%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (6.667%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (6.667%) Systems Developer
8 5 (6.667%) Senior Systems Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Test Analyst
9 4 (5.333%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.333%) ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (5.333%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Systems Programmer
9 4 (5.333%) Senior Programmer
9 4 (5.333%) Senior Systems Programmer
9 4 (5.333%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.333%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.333%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (2.667%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.667%) Mathematics
3 2 (2.667%) Physics
3 2 (2.667%) Clustering
4 1 (1.333%) Statistics
4 1 (1.333%) FMCG
4 1 (1.333%) PMI
4 1 (1.333%) EPoS
4 1 (1.333%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 29 (38.67%) Windows
2 5 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (6.667%) UNIX
2 5 (6.667%) Windows 2000
3 4 (5.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.667%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.667%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.333%) SUSE
5 1 (1.333%) HPUX
5 1 (1.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.67%) TDD
2 8 (10.67%) MVC
2 8 (10.67%) Web Application Development
3 7 (9.333%) BDD
3 7 (9.333%) Project Management
3 7 (9.333%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (8.000%) OO
4 6 (8.000%) Migration
4 6 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (6.667%) Workflow
5 5 (6.667%) Scrum
6 4 (5.333%) CRM
6 4 (5.333%) Kanban
6 4 (5.333%) Data Migration
6 4 (5.333%) Manual Testing
6 4 (5.333%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (4.000%) Test Strategy
7 3 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (4.000%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 43 (57.33%) SQL
2 41 (54.67%) VB.NET
3 30 (40.00%) C#
4 13 (17.33%) VB6
5 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.67%) VBScript
6 6 (8.000%) T-SQL
6 6 (8.000%) Java
7 4 (5.333%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.333%) VBA
8 3 (4.000%) C++
9 2 (2.667%) C
9 2 (2.667%) PHP
9 2 (2.667%) Fortran
10 1 (1.333%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.333%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 1 (1.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (13.33%) Degree
3 9 (12.00%) MCP
4 8 (10.67%) MCSD
5 7 (9.333%) MCTS
5 7 (9.333%) MCAD
6 3 (4.000%) MCSE
7 2 (2.667%) ISEB
7 2 (2.667%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.667%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.333%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.333%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.333%) APMP
8 1 (1.333%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.333%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.667%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.333%) XenApp
4 1 (1.333%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.333%) SCCM
2 2 (2.667%) SCOM
2 2 (2.667%) WMI
3 1 (1.333%) BladeLogic
3 1 (1.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Oracle
2 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.000%) VMware
4 3 (4.000%) Citrix
4 3 (4.000%) HP
5 2 (2.667%) Mapinfo
5 2 (2.667%) Cisco
5 2 (2.667%) NetApp
5 2 (2.667%) Avaya
6 1 (1.333%) Google
6 1 (1.333%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.333%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.333%) IBM
6 1 (1.333%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.333%) Cognos
6 1 (1.333%) JBoss
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The C# Developer will be developing Windows and Web applications using C# and VB.net / ASP.net with SQL Server Databases... Technical Skills C# and VB.net in...
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Salary: £32000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £65000 - £72000 per annum
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