Bolton VB6 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Bolton region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop Auckland Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Essex Exeter Exmouth Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingswinford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	16
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	14.71 %	17.65 %
Salaries quoted	10	5
Average minimum salary	£28,300	£21,000
Average salary	£29,750	£23,600
% change on same period last year	+26.05 %
Average maximum salary	£31,200	£26,200
UK excluding London average salary	£33,026	£33,780
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Programming Languages Bolton
Matching permanent IT job ads	68	34
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.015 %
Salaries quoted	64	30
Average minimum salary	£24,322	£22,473
Average salary	£27,044	£25,743
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Average maximum salary	£29,767	£29,014
UK excluding London average salary	£35,495	£35,768
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
VB6 Manchester

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Bolton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Bolton region.

VB6
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Bolton region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 24 (100.00 %) VB 2 23 (95.83 %) .NET 3 19 (79.17 %) VB.NET 4 14 (58.33 %) SQL 5 10 (41.67 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 6 9 (37.50 %) ASP 7 7 (29.17 %) COM+ 7 7 (29.17 %) C# 8 6 (25.00 %) JavaScript 9 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 9 4 (16.67 %) XML 10 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 10 3 (12.50 %) N-Tier 10 3 (12.50 %) Migration

10 3 (12.50 %) Cyberscience 10 3 (12.50 %) C 10 3 (12.50 %) Marketing 10 3 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 10 3 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 11 2 (8.333 %) Degree 11 2 (8.333 %) Computer Science 11 2 (8.333 %) Systems Analysis 11 2 (8.333 %) Health 11 2 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 11 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 11 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 12 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification 12 1 (4.167 %) Windows

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 23 (95.83 %) .NET 2 10 (41.67 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (37.50 %) ASP 4 7 (29.17 %) COM+ 5 4 (16.67 %) XML 6 3 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 8 1 (4.167 %) Silverlight 8 1 (4.167 %) XSL 8 1 (4.167 %) HTML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (4.167 %) MySQL
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Marketing 2 2 (8.333 %) Health 3 1 (4.167 %) Pensions 3 1 (4.167 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 20 (83.33 %) Developer 2 8 (33.33 %) Software Developer 2 8 (33.33 %) VB Developer 3 5 (20.83 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (16.67 %) VB.NET Developer 4 4 (16.67 %) Programmer 5 3 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) Graduate 5 3 (12.50 %) .NET Programmer 5 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET Programmer 6 2 (8.333 %) Graduate Programmer 6 2 (8.333 %) VB6 Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Senior Software Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Graduate Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) ASP Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) N-Tier 2 2 (8.333 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) Migration 1 3 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (8.333 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 24 (100.00 %) VB 2 19 (79.17 %) VB.NET 3 14 (58.33 %) SQL 4 7 (29.17 %) C# 5 6 (25.00 %) JavaScript 6 3 (12.50 %) C 7 2 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (4.167 %) VBScript 8 1 (4.167 %) C++ 8 1 (4.167 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) Cyberscience 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft