The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bromley 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 Bromley region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 22 25 24
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Permanent jobs citing VB 6 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 4.688% 1.053% 3.738%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.76% 11.11% 7.407%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
Average salary £35,000 £52,500 £46,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +12.29%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Bromley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
51 9 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 39.84% 9.474% 50.47%
Number of salaries quoted 36 7 49
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +39.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £29,400 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
London

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bromley 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 Bromley region.

Bromley VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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 9 (100.00%) MS Office
1 9 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (77.78%) C#
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 5 (55.56%) VBA
5 4 (44.44%) Java
5 4 (44.44%) AIX
5 4 (44.44%) UNIX
5 4 (44.44%) OpenVMS
5 4 (44.44%) ISEB
5 4 (44.44%) Citrix
5 4 (44.44%) zOS
5 4 (44.44%) Middleware
5 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
5 4 (44.44%) Change Management
5 4 (44.44%) Financial Institution
5 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
5 4 (44.44%) Finance
5 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (44.44%) Banking
5 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
5 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
5 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
5 4 (44.44%) Wholesale Banking
5 4 (44.44%) Marketing
5 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
5 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
6 3 (33.33%) Visualfiles
6 3 (33.33%) Legal

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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%) Middleware
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) MS Office
1 9 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Visualfiles
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 2 (22.22%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (22.22%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (44.44%) Financial Institution
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Wholesale Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Case Management Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) AIX
2 4 (44.44%) OpenVMS
2 4 (44.44%) zOS
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Change Management
1 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
1 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
1 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
1 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
1 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) VBA
3 4 (44.44%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) ISEB
1 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle