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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 19 23 40
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +17
Permanent jobs citing VB 2 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chippenham 3.226% 2.963% 0.474%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.762% 6.780% 0.735%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 1
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +45.83%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Chippenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
42 59 136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chippenham 67.74% 43.70% 64.45%
Number of salaries quoted 42 57 127
Average salary £37,500 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,650 £42,500 £40,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Wiltshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chippenham 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 Chippenham region.

Chippenham VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chippenham 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VBScript
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Spring.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (33.33%) StyleCop
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Moq
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chippenham 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 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ
2 1 (33.33%) Spring.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) ReSharper
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (33.33%) StyleCop
2 1 (33.33%) Moq
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (33.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VBScript
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) XAML
3 1 (33.33%) VB6
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Infragistics
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