Chester VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Chester 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 20 August 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 Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carnforth Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Cradley Heath Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham 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 Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Ringwood 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 Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	23
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	51
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	9.813 %	13.71 %
Salaries quoted	19	46
Average minimum salary	£25,158	£30,428
Average salary	£27,895	£32,272
% change on same period last year	-13.56 %
Average maximum salary	£30,632	£34,115
UK excluding London average salary	£32,996	£33,012
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Programming Languages Chester
Matching permanent IT job ads	214	372
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.155 %
Salaries quoted	200	353
Average minimum salary	£27,235	£29,561
Average salary	£29,611	£31,688
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Average maximum salary	£31,986	£33,815
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
VB.NET Cheshire

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Chester region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Chester 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 43 (100.00 %) .NET 2 31 (72.09 %) C# 3 30 (69.77 %) SQL Server 4 25 (58.14 %) ASP.NET 5 21 (48.84 %) SQL 6 19 (44.19 %) VB 6 19 (44.19 %) Finance 7 15 (34.88 %) VB6 8 11 (25.58 %) ASP 9 10 (23.26 %) HTML 10 9 (20.93 %) XML 11 8 (18.60 %) Visual Studio 11 8 (18.60 %) AJAX 11 8 (18.60 %) Marketing 12 7 (16.28 %) SQL Server 2000

13 6 (13.95 %) Microsoft 14 5 (11.63 %) MS Excel 14 5 (11.63 %) WinForms 14 5 (11.63 %) Oracle 14 5 (11.63 %) JavaScript 14 5 (11.63 %) C++ 14 5 (11.63 %) VBA 15 4 (9.302 %) Crystal Reports 15 4 (9.302 %) C 15 4 (9.302 %) PL/SQL 15 4 (9.302 %) CSS 15 4 (9.302 %) OO 15 4 (9.302 %) Oracle 9i 15 4 (9.302 %) Oracle 10g 15 4 (9.302 %) Web Development

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Chester 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 43 (100.00 %) .NET 2 25 (58.14 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (25.58 %) ASP 4 10 (23.26 %) HTML 5 9 (20.93 %) XML 6 8 (18.60 %) AJAX 7 5 (11.63 %) WinForms 8 4 (9.302 %) CSS 9 3 (6.977 %) WebServices 9 3 (6.977 %) DCOM 10 2 (4.651 %) ADO 11 1 (2.326 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (2.326 %) MFC 11 1 (2.326 %) ActiveX 11 1 (2.326 %) Java RMI 11 1 (2.326 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (6.977 %) IIS
Applications 1 5 (11.63 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.651 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (69.77 %) SQL Server 2 7 (16.28 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (9.302 %) Oracle 10g 3 4 (9.302 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (9.302 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (6.977 %) ETL 4 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (2.326 %) RDBMS 5 1 (2.326 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (2.326 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (2.326 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 8 (18.60 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.326 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (2.326 %) Flash
General 1 19 (44.19 %) Finance 2 8 (18.60 %) Marketing 3 2 (4.651 %) Banking 3 2 (4.651 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 37 (86.05 %) Developer 2 25 (58.14 %) .NET Developer 3 14 (32.56 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 13 (30.23 %) VB.NET Developer 5 11 (25.58 %) C# Developer 6 10 (23.26 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 7 (16.28 %) Web Developer 7 7 (16.28 %) SQL Developer 8 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server Developer 8 6 (13.95 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 6 (13.95 %) Software Developer 9 4 (9.302 %) VB Developer 9 4 (9.302 %) Oracle Developer 9 4 (9.302 %) VB6 Developer 9 4 (9.302 %) Database Developer 9 4 (9.302 %) CSharp Software Developer 10 3 (6.977 %) Oracle Database Developer 10 3 (6.977 %) Software Engineer 11 2 (4.651 %) Trainer 11 2 (4.651 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.977 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.326 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.326 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 2 (4.651 %) Windows 2 1 (2.326 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.302 %) OO 1 4 (9.302 %) Web Development 2 2 (4.651 %) Direct Marketing 2 2 (4.651 %) OOP 2 2 (4.651 %) OOA/OOD 2 2 (4.651 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (4.651 %) Data Management 3 1 (2.326 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (2.326 %) SEO 3 1 (2.326 %) CRM 3 1 (2.326 %) Email Marketing 3 1 (2.326 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (2.326 %) Time Management 3 1 (2.326 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 31 (72.09 %) C# 2 21 (48.84 %) SQL 3 19 (44.19 %) VB 4 15 (34.88 %) VB6 5 5 (11.63 %) VBA 5 5 (11.63 %) C++ 5 5 (11.63 %) JavaScript 6 4 (9.302 %) C 6 4 (9.302 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (4.651 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (4.651 %) VBScript 7 2 (4.651 %) PHP 7 2 (4.651 %) DHTML 8 1 (2.326 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.326 %) Degree	Vendors 1 6 (13.95 %) Microsoft 2 5 (11.63 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.651 %) Sage 4 1 (2.326 %) Teradata 4 1 (2.326 %) Alterian 4 1 (2.326 %) Unica 4 1 (2.326 %) Cognos