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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 92 84 79
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -5
Permanent jobs citing VB 48 76 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.953% 2.639% 2.554%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.981% 3.633% 3.486%
Number of salaries quoted 46 75 63
Average salary £37,750 £40,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.62% +19.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £32,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1610 2092 2180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 65.50% 72.64% 73.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1474 1792 1968
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
East of England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridgeshire VB Salary Histogram

VB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge -15 37 £39,500 -1.25% 7
Peterborough -6 3 £31,000 -22.50%
Ely +7 1 £35,000 -6.66%
Huntingdon - 1 £45,000 -
VB
East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 79 (77.45%) .NET
2 75 (73.53%) C#
3 71 (69.61%) SQL Server
4 61 (59.80%) Microsoft
5 55 (53.92%) SQL
6 50 (49.02%) VB.NET
7 49 (48.04%) ASP.NET
8 39 (38.24%) MVC
9 35 (34.31%) WCF
9 35 (34.31%) Web Application Development
10 30 (29.41%) T-SQL
11 28 (27.45%) MCP
11 28 (27.45%) MCAD
11 28 (27.45%) MCSD
11 28 (27.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (27.45%) TDD
11 28 (27.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 28 (27.45%) Razor View Engine
11 28 (27.45%) MCTS
11 28 (27.45%) ASP.NET MVC
11 28 (27.45%) BDD
12 27 (26.47%) NUnit
13 26 (25.49%) Scrum
13 26 (25.49%) Kanban
13 26 (25.49%) NHibernate
13 26 (25.49%) Music Industry
13 26 (25.49%) Rhino Mocks
13 26 (25.49%) Moq
14 25 (24.51%) MS Excel
14 25 (24.51%) XML

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 79 (77.45%) .NET
2 49 (48.04%) ASP.NET
3 35 (34.31%) WCF
4 28 (27.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 28 (27.45%) Razor View Engine
4 28 (27.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 26 (25.49%) NHibernate
6 25 (24.51%) XML
7 20 (19.61%) ASP
7 20 (19.61%) HTML
8 18 (17.65%) CSS
9 12 (11.76%) XSLT
10 10 (9.804%) Web Services
10 10 (9.804%) XSL
11 9 (8.824%) Ajax
12 8 (7.843%) HTML5
12 8 (7.843%) CSS3
13 7 (6.863%) EDI
14 6 (5.882%) WinForms
15 5 (4.902%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.804%) ColdFusion
1 10 (9.804%) Drupal
2 7 (6.863%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (5.882%) CMS
4 4 (3.922%) IIS
5 3 (2.941%) WordPress
5 3 (2.941%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.941%) Apache
5 3 (2.941%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (24.51%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.922%) FrameMaker
2 4 (3.922%) Acrobat
2 4 (3.922%) RoboHelp
2 4 (3.922%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (0.980%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.980%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (0.980%) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.980%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (69.61%) SQL Server
2 21 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
4 15 (14.71%) QlikView
5 14 (13.73%) SQL Server 2012
6 11 (10.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (8.824%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.843%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.941%) MySQL
10 3 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 27 (26.47%) NUnit
2 26 (25.49%) Rhino Mocks
2 26 (25.49%) Moq
3 16 (15.69%) Visual Studio
4 7 (6.863%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.961%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (1.961%) MSI
5 2 (1.961%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.980%) Selenium
6 1 (0.980%) TestComplete
General
1 26 (25.49%) Music Industry
2 7 (6.863%) Finance
3 5 (4.902%) Publishing
4 2 (1.961%) Marketing
5 1 (0.980%) Dutch Language
5 1 (0.980%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (75.49%) Developer
2 36 (35.29%) .NET Developer
3 14 (13.73%) Applications Developer
4 12 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 9 (8.824%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.863%) Lead Developer
7 6 (5.882%) Architect
7 6 (5.882%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.882%) Database Developer
7 6 (5.882%) Database Architect
8 5 (4.902%) SQL Server Architect
8 5 (4.902%) Systems Developer
8 5 (4.902%) SQL Server Developer
8 5 (4.902%) SQL Database Developer
9 4 (3.922%) Administrator
9 4 (3.922%) Programmer
9 4 (3.922%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.922%) Author
9 4 (3.922%) Technical Author
9 4 (3.922%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.902%) Replication
1 5 (4.902%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.941%) Computer Science
2 3 (2.941%) Open Source
3 2 (1.961%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.961%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.961%) Wiki
4 1 (0.980%) SaaS
4 1 (0.980%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.59%) Windows
2 3 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.941%) Linux
3 1 (0.980%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.24%) MVC
2 35 (34.31%) Web Application Development
3 28 (27.45%) TDD
3 28 (27.45%) BDD
4 26 (25.49%) Scrum
4 26 (25.49%) Kanban
5 12 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (10.78%) Content Management
7 10 (9.804%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (9.804%) Project Management
8 8 (7.843%) Data Modelling
8 8 (7.843%) Configuration Management
8 8 (7.843%) OO
8 8 (7.843%) DSDM
9 7 (6.863%) ERP
10 6 (5.882%) Change Control
11 5 (4.902%) Software Testing
11 5 (4.902%) Performance Management
11 5 (4.902%) Service Delivery
12 4 (3.922%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 75 (73.53%) C#
2 55 (53.92%) SQL
3 50 (49.02%) VB.NET
4 30 (29.41%) T-SQL
5 18 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 15 (14.71%) VB6
7 13 (12.75%) PHP
8 11 (10.78%) VBScript
9 8 (7.843%) VBA
10 7 (6.863%) Bourne shell
11 3 (2.941%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.941%) Perl
11 3 (2.941%) Java
11 3 (2.941%) Tcl
12 1 (0.980%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (27.45%) MCP
1 28 (27.45%) MCAD
1 28 (27.45%) MCSD
1 28 (27.45%) Microsoft Certification
1 28 (27.45%) MCTS
2 17 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (0.980%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.980%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.961%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.941%) OpenSSO
2 2 (1.961%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (1.961%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.961%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (59.80%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.61%) Oracle
3 7 (6.863%) DevExpress
4 5 (4.902%) Adobe
4 5 (4.902%) Macromedia
5 3 (2.941%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.961%) VMware
7 1 (0.980%) HP
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