Bradford VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Bradford region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Daresbury Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pewsey Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Studley Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	11
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	87	70
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	21.38 %	22.22 %
Salaries quoted	75	66
Average minimum salary	£29,153	£27,970
Average salary	£30,623	£29,371
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum salary	£32,093	£30,773
UK excluding London average salary	£33,058	£33,731
% change on same period last year	-1.99 %
Programming Languages Bradford
Matching permanent IT job ads	407	315
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.214 %	0.129 %
Salaries quoted	346	261
Average minimum salary	£31,170	£29,100
Average salary	£33,025	£31,156
% change on same period last year	+5.99 %
Average maximum salary	£34,881	£33,213
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VB West Yorkshire

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

VB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Bradford region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 81 (60.90 %) SQL 1 81 (60.90 %) SQL Server 2 70 (52.63 %) .NET 3 69 (51.88 %) VB6 4 52 (39.10 %) VB.NET 5 44 (33.08 %) XML 6 35 (26.32 %) VBA 6 35 (26.32 %) Windows 7 32 (24.06 %) C# 7 32 (24.06 %) ASP 8 29 (21.80 %) MS Excel 9 27 (20.30 %) OO 9 27 (20.30 %) Oracle 10 24 (18.05 %) ASP.NET 11 23 (17.29 %) JavaScript

12 18 (13.53 %) Windows NT 12 18 (13.53 %) QA 13 15 (11.28 %) Transact-SQL 14 14 (10.53 %) Finance 14 14 (10.53 %) Marketing 15 12 (9.023 %) Degree 15 12 (9.023 %) Microsoft 16 11 (8.271 %) SQL Server 2005 17 10 (7.519 %) CRM 17 10 (7.519 %) HTML 18 9 (6.767 %) RPG 18 9 (6.767 %) Crystal Reports 18 9 (6.767 %) MS Access 18 9 (6.767 %) UNIX 18 9 (6.767 %) Process Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 70 (52.63 %) .NET 2 44 (33.08 %) XML 3 32 (24.06 %) ASP 4 24 (18.05 %) ASP.NET 5 10 (7.519 %) HTML 6 7 (5.263 %) WebServices 6 7 (5.263 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 6 (4.511 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (4.511 %) COM+ 8 3 (2.256 %) Adobe Flex 9 2 (1.504 %) WebSphere 9 2 (1.504 %) CSS 10 1 (0.752 %) ADO 10 1 (0.752 %) ADO.NET 10 1 (0.752 %) WF 10 1 (0.752 %) ActiveX 10 1 (0.752 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 7 (5.263 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.752 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (0.752 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 29 (21.80 %) MS Excel 2 8 (6.015 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.752 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.752 %) Navision 1 1 (0.752 %) Staffware 1 1 (0.752 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.752 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 81 (60.90 %) SQL Server 2 11 (8.271 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (6.767 %) Crystal Reports 3 9 (6.767 %) MS Access 4 4 (3.008 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (1.504 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (1.504 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (1.504 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (1.504 %) DB2 6 1 (0.752 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (0.752 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.752 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.752 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 4 (3.008 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (2.256 %) Flash	General 1 14 (10.53 %) Finance 1 14 (10.53 %) Marketing 2 3 (2.256 %) Retail 2 3 (2.256 %) Billing 3 2 (1.504 %) Insurance 4 1 (0.752 %) Publishing 4 1 (0.752 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 77 (57.89 %) Developer 2 38 (28.57 %) Analyst 3 33 (24.81 %) Software Developer 4 23 (17.29 %) VB Developer 5 18 (13.53 %) Programmer 6 17 (12.78 %) Analyst Programmer 7 14 (10.53 %) Support Analyst 8 12 (9.023 %) Applications Support 9 9 (6.767 %) Graduate 9 9 (6.767 %) AS400 Analyst Programmer 10 8 (6.015 %) .NET Developer 11 7 (5.263 %) Software Engineer 11 7 (5.263 %) Applications Support Analyst 11 7 (5.263 %) Progress Developer 11 7 (5.263 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 11 7 (5.263 %) .NET Programmer 11 7 (5.263 %) VB Analyst Programmer 12 6 (4.511 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 12 6 (4.511 %) GUI Developer 12 6 (4.511 %) VB.NET Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.767 %) AS400 2 7 (5.263 %) N-Tier 3 4 (3.008 %) Data Extraction 3 4 (3.008 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.504 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 35 (26.32 %) Windows 2 18 (13.53 %) Windows NT 3 9 (6.767 %) UNIX 4 7 (5.263 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.752 %) AIX 5 1 (0.752 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (20.30 %) OO 2 10 (7.519 %) CRM 3 9 (6.767 %) Process Management 4 7 (5.263 %) UML 5 5 (3.759 %) Workflow 6 4 (3.008 %) OOA/OOD 6 4 (3.008 %) OOD 7 3 (2.256 %) SOA 7 3 (2.256 %) OOP 7 3 (2.256 %) Scrum 7 3 (2.256 %) DSDM 8 2 (1.504 %) Incident Management 8 2 (1.504 %) Logistics 8 2 (1.504 %) ITIL 8 2 (1.504 %) Change Management 8 2 (1.504 %) RUP 9 1 (0.752 %) Service Delivery 9 1 (0.752 %) E-business 9 1 (0.752 %) Migration 9 1 (0.752 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 81 (60.90 %) SQL 2 69 (51.88 %) VB6 3 52 (39.10 %) VB.NET 4 35 (26.32 %) VBA 5 32 (24.06 %) C# 6 23 (17.29 %) JavaScript 7 15 (11.28 %) Transact-SQL 8 9 (6.767 %) RPG 9 7 (5.263 %) VBScript 10 6 (4.511 %) Progress 4GL 11 2 (1.504 %) PL/SQL 12 1 (0.752 %) C++ 12 1 (0.752 %) Java 12 1 (0.752 %) C 12 1 (0.752 %) AWK 12 1 (0.752 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 12 (9.023 %) Degree 2 1 (0.752 %) MCSD 2 1 (0.752 %) HND 2 1 (0.752 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (13.53 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.752 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 27 (20.30 %) Oracle 2 12 (9.023 %) Microsoft 3 7 (5.263 %) Progress 4 4 (3.008 %) TIBCO 5 3 (2.256 %) Adobe 6 2 (1.504 %) ProClarity 7 1 (0.752 %) Kofax 7 1 (0.752 %) Amdocs 7 1 (0.752 %) BEA 7 1 (0.752 %) JD Edwards 7 1 (0.752 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.752 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.752 %) Vignette