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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 45 16 24
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +8
Permanent jobs citing VB 5 21 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.397% 12.96% 10.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.262% 18.58% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 25
Average salary £30,000 £31,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.22% +37.77%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
221 113 164
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 61.73% 69.75% 69.49%
Number of salaries quoted 131 99 157
Average salary £37,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.33% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £21,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Cheshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) VB6
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) RAD
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (16.67%) Delphi

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 4 (66.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) RAD
1 1 (16.67%) MVC
1 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) VB6
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) Delphi
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Chester, North West
As a .Net Developer / Software Engineer it's highly likely that you will have existing knowledge of the .Net framework, ideally using C# and knowledge of developing software...
JAM
Salary: £25000 - £35000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Rapidly expanding IT services business in Chester are looking to expand their technical team with the addition of a skilled .Net developer with particular knowledge of C#... As...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 16 May 2013