The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 127 106 111
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +5
Permanent jobs citing VB6 11 18 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.538% 0.937% 1.154%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.966% 2.004% 2.160%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 24
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £29,000 £31,650
10% offered a salary of more than £50,500 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1139 898 1111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 55.75% 46.72% 53.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1035 818 1030
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,530 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB6
South East

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Buckinghamshire VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire VB6 Salary Histogram

VB6
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -30 5 £50,500 +61.60%
Bletchley - 2 £21,500 -
Marlow - 1 - -
VB6
South East

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 19 (100.00%) VB
2 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 18 (94.74%) .NET
3 15 (78.95%) C#
4 10 (52.63%) ASP.NET
5 9 (47.37%) Web Services
5 9 (47.37%) SQL Server
5 9 (47.37%) T-SQL
6 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
7 6 (31.58%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (31.58%) Use Case
7 6 (31.58%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (31.58%) MVC
7 6 (31.58%) VB.NET
8 5 (26.32%) VC++
8 5 (26.32%) Web Development
8 5 (26.32%) WinForms
9 4 (21.05%) NUnit
9 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (21.05%) NHibernate
9 4 (21.05%) WCF
9 4 (21.05%) WF
9 4 (21.05%) jQuery
9 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (21.05%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 4 (21.05%) Web Application Development
9 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
9 4 (21.05%) XML
9 4 (21.05%) Windows

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (94.74%) .NET
2 10 (52.63%) ASP.NET
3 9 (47.37%) Web Services
4 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
5 5 (26.32%) WinForms
6 4 (21.05%) NHibernate
6 4 (21.05%) WCF
6 4 (21.05%) WF
6 4 (21.05%) jQuery
6 4 (21.05%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (21.05%) XML
7 1 (5.263%) Flash
7 1 (5.263%) CSS
7 1 (5.263%) ASP
7 1 (5.263%) HTML
7 1 (5.263%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
3 1 (5.263%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (21.05%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) NUnit
1 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Software Developer
3 8 (42.11%) Senior Developer
4 4 (21.05%) C# Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Software Developer
4 4 (21.05%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Graduate
7 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) VB Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Use Case
1 6 (31.58%) MVC
2 5 (26.32%) Web Development
3 4 (21.05%) Web Application Development
4 2 (10.53%) TDD
4 2 (10.53%) OOP
5 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.263%) OO
5 1 (5.263%) SEO
5 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) VB
2 18 (94.74%) SQL
3 15 (78.95%) C#
4 9 (47.37%) T-SQL
5 6 (31.58%) VB.NET
6 5 (26.32%) VC++
7 4 (21.05%) VBA
8 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (5.263%) VBScript
9 1 (5.263%) Delphi
9 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
9 1 (5.263%) PHP
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
About you: You will be a bright, focussed, team player and problem-solver with skills and experience in VB6 / VB.Net and SQL / MySQL, willing to share ideas...
Dragon Careers
Salary: From £18,000 to £25,000 per annum plus bonus
Posted: 10 May 2013
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Visual Basic, VB6 Developer sought for role within a dedicated & focused commercial Mortgage Software systems development firm based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire... Any interest in learning, coming to grips...
Go Partnership.
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013