Cheshire VB.NET Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Cheshire 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 7 October 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 Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Beverley Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carnforth Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cradley Heath Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Matlock Melksham Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Penrith Peterborough Pewsey Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Ringwood Rochdale Rochester Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Seaford Selby Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitehaven Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	42
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching permanent IT job ads	187	138
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.109 %	0.059 %
As % of the category below	12.76 %	8.812 %
Salaries quoted	181	127
Average minimum salary	£27,317	£29,560
Average salary	£30,118	£31,738
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Average maximum salary	£32,919	£33,917
UK excluding London average salary	£32,938	£33,310
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Programming Languages Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1466	1566
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.856 %	0.671 %
Salaries quoted	1369	1401
Average minimum salary	£29,193	£29,899
Average salary	£32,177	£32,260
% change on same period last year	-0.25 %
Average maximum salary	£35,161	£34,622
UK excluding London average salary	£35,495	£35,768
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
VB.NET North West

VB.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

VB.NET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Chester	+17	60	£29,554	-3.02 %
Macclesfield	-5	23	£25,455	+8.78 %
Warrington	-6	19	£27,395	-15.10 %
Crewe	+21	19	£34,263	+8.08 %
Knutsford	-	14	£35,429	-
Runcorn	-	3	£30,000	-
Nantwich	-	3	£28,167	-
Wilmslow	-2	2	£33,250	+20.90 %
Ellesmere Port	-7	1	£21,500	-33.22 %
Northwich	-	1	£40,000	-

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VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 364 (100.00 %) .NET 2 258 (70.88 %) ASP.NET 3 254 (69.78 %) SQL Server 4 202 (55.49 %) C# 5 146 (40.11 %) VB 6 105 (28.85 %) SQL 7 91 (25.00 %) HTML 8 84 (23.08 %) Microsoft 9 77 (21.15 %) XML 10 74 (20.33 %) JavaScript 11 73 (20.05 %) ASP 12 72 (19.78 %) Finance 13 69 (18.96 %) VB6 14 66 (18.13 %) SQL Server 2005 15 61 (16.76 %) CSS

16 57 (15.66 %) SQL Server 2000 17 55 (15.11 %) Windows 18 51 (14.01 %) WebServices 19 46 (12.64 %) Web Development 20 44 (12.09 %) .NET Framework 21 42 (11.54 %) AJAX 22 39 (10.71 %) Visual Studio 23 35 (9.615 %) Transact-SQL 24 34 (9.341 %) C++ 24 34 (9.341 %) IIS 25 33 (9.066 %) Degree 26 32 (8.791 %) Crystal Reports 26 32 (8.791 %) Java 27 30 (8.242 %) VBScript 27 30 (8.242 %) Pensions

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 364 (100.00 %) .NET 2 258 (70.88 %) ASP.NET 3 91 (25.00 %) HTML 4 77 (21.15 %) XML 5 73 (20.05 %) ASP 6 61 (16.76 %) CSS 7 51 (14.01 %) WebServices 8 44 (12.09 %) .NET Framework 9 42 (11.54 %) AJAX 10 22 (6.044 %) WinForms 11 15 (4.121 %) WCF 11 15 (4.121 %) XSL 12 14 (3.846 %) Adobe Flex 13 12 (3.297 %) WPF 13 12 (3.297 %) ADO.NET 14 11 (3.022 %) SOAP 15 10 (2.747 %) LINQ 15 10 (2.747 %) MVC 16 9 (2.473 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 9 (2.473 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 34 (9.341 %) IIS 2 14 (3.846 %) SharePoint 3 13 (3.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 10 (2.747 %) CMS 5 8 (2.198 %) BizTalk Server 6 7 (1.923 %) MTS 7 5 (1.374 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 22 (6.044 %) MS Excel 2 10 (2.747 %) MS Office 3 4 (1.099 %) Photoshop 4 3 (0.824 %) MS Visio 4 3 (0.824 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 2 (0.549 %) Line 500 2 1 (0.275 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.275 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 24 (6.593 %) Intranet 2 20 (5.495 %) Internet 3 16 (4.396 %) LAN 3 16 (4.396 %) WAN 4 7 (1.923 %) Extranet 4 7 (1.923 %) GPRS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 254 (69.78 %) SQL Server 2 66 (18.13 %) SQL Server 2005 3 57 (15.66 %) SQL Server 2000 4 32 (8.791 %) Crystal Reports 5 18 (4.945 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 15 (4.121 %) ETL 7 13 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 8 12 (3.297 %) Oracle 9i 9 10 (2.747 %) Datawarehouse 10 9 (2.473 %) SQL Server 2008 11 7 (1.923 %) MS Access 12 6 (1.648 %) DTS 13 4 (1.099 %) MySQL 14 3 (0.824 %) GIS 15 2 (0.549 %) RDBMS 16 1 (0.275 %) BusinessObjects 16 1 (0.275 %) Oracle Reports 16 1 (0.275 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 1 (0.275 %) OLAP 16 1 (0.275 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 39 (10.71 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (1.099 %) Flash 2 4 (1.099 %) NUnit 2 4 (1.099 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 2 (0.549 %) QuickTest Pro 3 2 (0.549 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (0.275 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.275 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (0.275 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 72 (19.78 %) Finance 2 30 (8.242 %) Pensions 3 23 (6.319 %) Marketing 4 21 (5.769 %) Health 5 12 (3.297 %) Financial Institution 6 11 (3.022 %) Banking 7 6 (1.648 %) Insurance 8 3 (0.824 %) Legal 9 2 (0.549 %) Law 9 2 (0.549 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (0.549 %) Government 10 1 (0.275 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.275 %) Retail 10 1 (0.275 %) Education 10 1 (0.275 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 284 (78.02 %) Developer 2 161 (44.23 %) .NET Developer 3 77 (21.15 %) VB.NET Developer 4 70 (19.23 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 53 (14.56 %) Web Developer 6 45 (12.36 %) Software Developer 7 39 (10.71 %) C# Developer 8 29 (7.967 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 23 (6.319 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 23 (6.319 %) .NET Applications Developer 9 23 (6.319 %) SQL Developer 9 23 (6.319 %) Applications Developer 10 22 (6.044 %) VB Developer 11 21 (5.769 %) Junior 12 20 (5.495 %) Applications Support 12 20 (5.495 %) .NET Web Developer 13 19 (5.220 %) Junior Developer 14 18 (4.945 %) Senior Developer 15 16 (4.396 %) SQL Server Developer 16 15 (4.121 %) Senior .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (5.220 %) Management Information System 2 14 (3.846 %) PDA 3 13 (3.571 %) N-Tier 4 11 (3.022 %) NHS 5 4 (1.099 %) Mathematics 5 4 (1.099 %) Client/Server 6 3 (0.824 %) Tandem 7 2 (0.549 %) Computer Science 7 2 (0.549 %) Streaming Video 8 1 (0.275 %) Speech Recognition
Operating Systems 1 55 (15.11 %) Windows 2 14 (3.846 %) Windows Mobile 3 7 (1.923 %) Windows CE 4 2 (0.549 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.275 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (12.64 %) Web Development 2 23 (6.319 %) Project Management 2 23 (6.319 %) Agile Software Development 3 20 (5.495 %) CRM 4 19 (5.220 %) E-Commerce 4 19 (5.220 %) OO 5 18 (4.945 %) Unit Testing 6 15 (4.121 %) Performance Management 7 14 (3.846 %) OOP 8 11 (3.022 %) UML 8 11 (3.022 %) Stakeholder Management 9 9 (2.473 %) Workflow 9 9 (2.473 %) RUP 10 8 (2.198 %) PRINCE2 11 7 (1.923 %) Business Intelligence 11 7 (1.923 %) Web Design 11 7 (1.923 %) Automated Testing 12 6 (1.648 %) Migration 13 5 (1.374 %) Project Planning 13 5 (1.374 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 202 (55.49 %) C# 2 146 (40.11 %) VB 3 105 (28.85 %) SQL 4 74 (20.33 %) JavaScript 5 69 (18.96 %) VB6 6 35 (9.615 %) Transact-SQL 7 34 (9.341 %) C++ 8 32 (8.791 %) Java 9 30 (8.242 %) VBScript 10 21 (5.769 %) C 11 16 (4.396 %) ActionScript 12 15 (4.121 %) VBA 13 13 (3.571 %) PL/SQL 14 12 (3.297 %) Delphi 15 7 (1.923 %) Perl 16 5 (1.374 %) DHTML 16 5 (1.374 %) Fortran 17 2 (0.549 %) PHP 18 1 (0.275 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 33 (9.066 %) Degree 2 22 (6.044 %) Microsoft Certification 3 11 (3.022 %) MCSD 4 5 (1.374 %) MCAD 5 4 (1.099 %) MCP 6 1 (0.275 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.099 %) QA 2 2 (0.549 %) 21 CFR Part 11 3 1 (0.275 %) SLA 3 1 (0.275 %) WCAG	System Software 1 3 (0.824 %) Terminal Server 1 3 (0.824 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 84 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 20 (5.495 %) Oracle 3 12 (3.297 %) Adobe 4 7 (1.923 %) Dundas 5 4 (1.099 %) Citrix 5 4 (1.099 %) Sage 5 4 (1.099 %) VMware 6 1 (0.275 %) telerik 6 1 (0.275 %) Business Objects 6 1 (0.275 %) Cognos 6 1 (0.275 %) Novell