The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 17 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 Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 71 50 35
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -15
Permanent jobs citing VB 9 1 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 1.676% 0.260% 3.774%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.569% 0.592% 7.910%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 14
Average salary £52,500 £44,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.97% +27.14%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
197 169 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 36.69% 43.90% 47.71%
Number of salaries quoted 153 144 170
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Berkshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Bracknell region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bracknell VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell 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 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) Windows XP
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (55.56%) SAN
3 5 (55.56%) CA
3 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) SCCM
3 5 (55.56%) SCOM
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 5 (55.56%) Change Control
4 4 (44.44%) Retail
4 4 (44.44%) VB6
4 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (44.44%) Xen
4 4 (44.44%) Fujitsu
4 4 (44.44%) MCSE
4 4 (44.44%) C#
4 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
4 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (44.44%) MIMEsweeper

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell 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 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) ASP
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
1 5 (55.56%) Change Control
2 3 (33.33%) OOP
2 3 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 3 (33.33%) TDD
2 3 (33.33%) Product Management
2 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
3 4 (44.44%) VB6
3 4 (44.44%) C#
4 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) MCSE
2 4 (44.44%) CCNA
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
1 5 (55.56%) SCOM
2 4 (44.44%) MIMEsweeper
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) CA
3 4 (44.44%) Fujitsu
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
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