Buckinghamshire VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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.NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Seaford Selby Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Thetford Thirsk Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Walton-on-Thames Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	28
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	221	234
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.096 %
As % of the category below	13.13 %	10.05 %
Salaries quoted	213	206
Average minimum salary	£29,793	£31,038
Average salary	£32,824	£33,740
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Average maximum salary	£35,856	£36,443
UK excluding London average salary	£33,155	£32,856
% change on same period last year	+0.91 %
Programming Languages Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1683	2328
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.888 %	0.953 %
Salaries quoted	1508	1991
Average minimum salary	£33,716	£34,121
Average salary	£37,197	£37,343
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Average maximum salary	£40,678	£40,565
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
VB.NET South East

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB.NET
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+16	117	£33,730	+3.34 %
High Wycombe	+12	41	£30,756	-8.81 %
Gerrards Cross	-	16	£32,833	-
Chesham	-	9	£32,500	-
Aylesbury	-17	8	£31,375	+0.95 %
Newport Pagnell	-	4	£36,875	-
Marlow	-14	1	£40,000	+23.63 %

VB.NET South East

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 487 (100.00 %) .NET 2 363 (74.54 %) SQL Server 3 361 (74.13 %) ASP.NET 4 268 (55.03 %) C# 5 223 (45.79 %) SQL 6 181 (37.17 %) VB 7 149 (30.60 %) ASP 8 119 (24.44 %) HTML 9 95 (19.51 %) Microsoft 10 84 (17.25 %) JavaScript 11 82 (16.84 %) SQL Server 2005 12 80 (16.43 %) XML 13 79 (16.22 %) CSS 14 77 (15.81 %) SQL Server 2000 15 63 (12.94 %) Degree

16 62 (12.73 %) Pensions 16 62 (12.73 %) Web Design 17 61 (12.53 %) MS Excel 18 59 (12.11 %) Transact-SQL 19 56 (11.50 %) WebServices 19 56 (11.50 %) VB6 20 51 (10.47 %) Java 21 50 (10.27 %) Health 22 49 (10.06 %) .NET Framework 23 48 (9.856 %) Internet 24 45 (9.240 %) Visual Studio 24 45 (9.240 %) Computer Science 25 42 (8.624 %) E-business 26 40 (8.214 %) E-Commerce 26 40 (8.214 %) Unit Testing

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 487 (100.00 %) .NET 2 361 (74.13 %) ASP.NET 3 149 (30.60 %) ASP 4 119 (24.44 %) HTML 5 80 (16.43 %) XML 6 79 (16.22 %) CSS 7 56 (11.50 %) WebServices 8 49 (10.06 %) .NET Framework 9 25 (5.133 %) XHTML 10 22 (4.517 %) AJAX 11 21 (4.312 %) ADO.NET 12 18 (3.696 %) XSLT 13 11 (2.259 %) Adobe Flex 13 11 (2.259 %) MFC 14 9 (1.848 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 8 (1.643 %) ADO 16 5 (1.027 %) Windows SharePoint Services 17 4 (0.821 %) WinForms 17 4 (0.821 %) XSL 18 3 (0.616 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 34 (6.982 %) SharePoint 2 22 (4.517 %) Documentum 3 14 (2.875 %) IIS 3 14 (2.875 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 9 (1.848 %) ColdFusion 5 8 (1.643 %) BizTalk Server 5 8 (1.643 %) CMS 6 3 (0.616 %) ColdFusion MX 7 2 (0.411 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (0.411 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 61 (12.53 %) MS Excel 2 14 (2.875 %) MS Office 3 3 (0.616 %) InfoPath 4 2 (0.411 %) Photoshop 5 1 (0.205 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.205 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 3 (0.616 %) Dynamics NAV 1 3 (0.616 %) Dynamics CRM 1 3 (0.616 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (0.205 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 48 (9.856 %) Internet 2 8 (1.643 %) Intranet 3 6 (1.232 %) Broadband 3 6 (1.232 %) VoIP 4 4 (0.821 %) POP3 4 4 (0.821 %) SMTP 4 4 (0.821 %) FTP 4 4 (0.821 %) ADSL 4 4 (0.821 %) Wireless 5 2 (0.411 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 363 (74.54 %) SQL Server 2 82 (16.84 %) SQL Server 2005 3 77 (15.81 %) SQL Server 2000 4 32 (6.571 %) Crystal Reports 5 23 (4.723 %) SQL Server 7 6 20 (4.107 %) MySQL 7 13 (2.669 %) MS Access 8 11 (2.259 %) RDBMS 9 8 (1.643 %) DTS 10 7 (1.437 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 5 (1.027 %) Datawarehouse 12 2 (0.411 %) Oracle Reports 12 2 (0.411 %) GIS 13 1 (0.205 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 1 (0.205 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 1 (0.205 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 1 (0.205 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 45 (9.240 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (1.643 %) Flash 3 7 (1.437 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 6 (1.232 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 62 (12.73 %) Pensions 2 50 (10.27 %) Health 3 33 (6.776 %) Telecoms 4 24 (4.928 %) Retail 5 19 (3.901 %) Pharmaceutical 5 19 (3.901 %) Government 6 18 (3.696 %) Finance 7 15 (3.080 %) Chemicals 7 15 (3.080 %) Legal 8 12 (2.464 %) Back Office 9 10 (2.053 %) Marketing 10 7 (1.437 %) Multimedia 10 7 (1.437 %) Billing 11 6 (1.232 %) Insurance 11 6 (1.232 %) Manufacturing 11 6 (1.232 %) Animation 12 5 (1.027 %) Construction 13 4 (0.821 %) Education 14 3 (0.616 %) Banking 15 1 (0.205 %) Games
Job Titles 1 376 (77.21 %) Developer 2 250 (51.33 %) .NET Developer 3 129 (26.49 %) VB.NET Developer 4 120 (24.64 %) Web Developer 5 90 (18.48 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 61 (12.53 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 56 (11.50 %) C# Developer 7 56 (11.50 %) Programmer 8 55 (11.29 %) Software Developer 9 38 (7.803 %) .NET Web Developer 10 37 (7.598 %) Analyst 11 36 (7.392 %) Analyst Programmer 12 33 (6.776 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 13 29 (5.955 %) .NET Programmer 14 25 (5.133 %) Senior Developer 14 25 (5.133 %) VB.NET Programmer 15 22 (4.517 %) Senior .NET Developer 16 21 (4.312 %) Applications Developer 17 19 (3.901 %) Software Engineer 18 18 (3.696 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 45 (9.240 %) Computer Science 2 14 (2.875 %) PDA 3 8 (1.643 %) W3C 4 1 (0.205 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.205 %) Replication 4 1 (0.205 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.205 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.205 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 21 (4.312 %) Windows 2 7 (1.437 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (1.232 %) Windows XP 3 6 (1.232 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (0.616 %) Linux 5 2 (0.411 %) UNIX 6 1 (0.205 %) AIX 6 1 (0.205 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 62 (12.73 %) Web Design 2 42 (8.624 %) E-business 3 40 (8.214 %) E-Commerce 3 40 (8.214 %) Unit Testing 4 38 (7.803 %) Web Development 5 23 (4.723 %) Agile Software Development 6 21 (4.312 %) OO 7 16 (3.285 %) CRM 7 16 (3.285 %) Content Management 8 15 (3.080 %) UML 9 12 (2.464 %) OOP 10 10 (2.053 %) Project Planning 11 8 (1.643 %) Service Management 12 7 (1.437 %) TDD 13 6 (1.232 %) Migration 13 6 (1.232 %) Scrum 14 5 (1.027 %) Extreme Programming 14 5 (1.027 %) Project Management 15 4 (0.821 %) Software Engineering 15 4 (0.821 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 268 (55.03 %) C# 2 223 (45.79 %) SQL 3 181 (37.17 %) VB 4 84 (17.25 %) JavaScript 5 59 (12.11 %) Transact-SQL 6 56 (11.50 %) VB6 7 51 (10.47 %) Java 8 35 (7.187 %) VBScript 9 31 (6.366 %) C 10 25 (5.133 %) PHP 11 17 (3.491 %) C++ 11 17 (3.491 %) VBA 12 4 (0.821 %) PL/SQL 13 3 (0.616 %) Perl 13 3 (0.616 %) DHTML 14 2 (0.411 %) Delphi 14 2 (0.411 %) PowerShell 15 1 (0.205 %) VC++ 15 1 (0.205 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 63 (12.94 %) Degree 2 19 (3.901 %) Microsoft Certification 3 13 (2.669 %) MCAD 4 11 (2.259 %) MCSD 5 7 (1.437 %) MCP 6 4 (0.821 %) MCTS 7 3 (0.616 %) MCSA 8 2 (0.411 %) MCDBA 8 2 (0.411 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.205 %) ISO9001	Systems Management 1 3 (0.616 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 95 (19.51 %) Microsoft 2 17 (3.491 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.205 %) Cognos 3 1 (0.205 %) UGS 3 1 (0.205 %) ProClarity