The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 43 49 35
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -14
Permanent jobs citing VB 2 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 0.592% 1.182% 2.454%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.149% 2.703% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
Average salary £24,377 £38,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.68% +28.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,875 £38,500 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £27,878 £38,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
174 185 152
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 51.48% 43.74% 46.63%
Number of salaries quoted 128 161 117
Average salary £35,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.23% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £22,750 £23,700
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £43,250 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
West Yorkshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 21 (95.45%) SQL
2 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 13 (59.09%) VBA
3 8 (36.36%) MS Office
3 8 (36.36%) MS Excel
3 8 (36.36%) MS Access
4 7 (31.82%) XML
4 7 (31.82%) VBScript
4 7 (31.82%) ISTQB
4 7 (31.82%) Degree
4 7 (31.82%) JIRA
4 7 (31.82%) QA
4 7 (31.82%) Test Management
4 7 (31.82%) Test Scripting
4 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
4 7 (31.82%) HP Quality Center
4 7 (31.82%) Test Strategy
5 6 (27.27%) Oracle
6 5 (22.73%) Perl
6 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
6 5 (22.73%) ETL
6 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
7 4 (18.18%) HTML
7 4 (18.18%) .NET
8 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
8 3 (13.64%) Citrix
8 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
8 3 (13.64%) Windows

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 7 (31.82%) XML
2 4 (18.18%) HTML
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.545%) CSS
3 1 (4.545%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (13.64%) WordPress
2 1 (4.545%) CMS
2 1 (4.545%) IIS
2 1 (4.545%) Apache
2 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) MS Office
1 8 (36.36%) MS Excel
2 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) FTP
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
1 3 (13.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) MS Access
2 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) MySQL
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) JIRA
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Test Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Test Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Data Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) IT Support
5 1 (4.545%) Process Improvement Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Process Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.545%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (13.64%) Windows 8
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Test Management
1 7 (31.82%) Test Scripting
1 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
1 7 (31.82%) Test Strategy
2 5 (22.73%) ETL
2 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.64%) Data Management
4 1 (4.545%) Business Analysis
4 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.545%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) SQL
2 13 (59.09%) VBA
3 7 (31.82%) VBScript
4 5 (22.73%) Perl
4 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.545%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) ISTQB
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Citrix
2 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.545%) Business Objects
Bradford, West Yorkshire
I am looking for a VB.net developer for a financial services company in Yorkshire. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of delivering web or...
The SLR Group
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Skills needed: VB.NET (C# considered) ASP.NET JavaScript with JQuery MVC (advantageous) Web Services Object Oriented Programming (OO) SQL Server 2005/2008 RIA If you are looking...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Developing tools through coding using various vbscript based software... Exposure to QTP and NICE Interaction is a distinct advantage, in addition to Access, SQL and an in-depth...
Santander
Salary: £25000 - £29999 per annum
Posted: 9 May 2013