The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 61 64 47
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -17
Permanent jobs citing VB 29 20 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 3.594% 2.714% 4.247%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.983% 3.788% 7.432%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 22
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,400 £32,500 £34,550
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £40,200 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
582 528 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 72.12% 71.64% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 532 486 282
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,150 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
East Sussex

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Brighton VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 46 (92.00%) C#
1 46 (92.00%) .NET
2 45 (90.00%) SQL Server
3 44 (88.00%) ASP.NET
4 40 (80.00%) WPF
5 39 (78.00%) WinForms
6 28 (56.00%) Scrum
6 28 (56.00%) Windows
7 27 (54.00%) VB.NET
7 27 (54.00%) Agile Software Development
7 27 (54.00%) WCF
8 26 (52.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 26 (52.00%) Unity DI Container
8 26 (52.00%) Spring.NET
8 26 (52.00%) Castle Windsor
8 26 (52.00%) Ninject
8 26 (52.00%) Razor View Engine
8 26 (52.00%) Web Application Development
8 26 (52.00%) TDD
8 26 (52.00%) NUnit
8 26 (52.00%) MCTS
8 26 (52.00%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (52.00%) Kanban
8 26 (52.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 26 (52.00%) Dependency Injection
8 26 (52.00%) Inversion of Control
8 26 (52.00%) MSTest
8 26 (52.00%) MVVM
8 26 (52.00%) Rhino Mocks
8 26 (52.00%) Moq

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 46 (92.00%) .NET
2 44 (88.00%) ASP.NET
3 40 (80.00%) WPF
4 39 (78.00%) WinForms
5 27 (54.00%) WCF
6 26 (52.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 26 (52.00%) Unity DI Container
6 26 (52.00%) Spring.NET
6 26 (52.00%) Castle Windsor
6 26 (52.00%) Ninject
6 26 (52.00%) Razor View Engine
6 26 (52.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (26.00%) CSS
7 13 (26.00%) HTML
8 1 (2.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.000%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.000%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (6.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (6.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (6.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (6.000%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 26 (52.00%) NUnit
1 26 (52.00%) MSTest
1 26 (52.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 26 (52.00%) Moq
2 1 (2.000%) Selenium
2 1 (2.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (4.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (90.00%) Developer
2 27 (54.00%) .NET Developer
3 14 (28.00%) C# Developer
4 4 (8.000%) SQL Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Systems Developer
6 1 (2.000%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (2.000%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.000%) Tester
6 1 (2.000%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (2.000%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (2.000%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (2.000%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.000%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 26 (52.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (2.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (56.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.000%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.000%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Scrum
2 27 (54.00%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (52.00%) Web Application Development
3 26 (52.00%) TDD
3 26 (52.00%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (52.00%) Kanban
3 26 (52.00%) Dependency Injection
3 26 (52.00%) MVVM
3 26 (52.00%) MVC
4 3 (6.000%) Data Analysis
5 1 (2.000%) Migration
5 1 (2.000%) ITIL
5 1 (2.000%) OOP
5 1 (2.000%) OO
5 1 (2.000%) Automated Testing
5 1 (2.000%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (92.00%) C#
2 27 (54.00%) VB.NET
3 13 (26.00%) C++
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) VB6
6 4 (8.000%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.000%) VBScript
7 1 (2.000%) Java
7 1 (2.000%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (52.00%) MCTS
1 26 (52.00%) MCP
1 26 (52.00%) MCAD
1 26 (52.00%) MCSD
1 26 (52.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (8.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.000%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.000%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.000%) Xen
1 1 (2.000%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (8.000%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.000%) VMware
2 1 (2.000%) Cisco
2 1 (2.000%) Symantec
2 1 (2.000%) Oracle
Brighton, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013