City of London VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the City of London 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire 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 Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	86
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	579	409
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.305 %	0.168 %
As % of the category below	5.481 %	3.855 %
Salaries quoted	523	337
Average minimum salary	£41,014	£43,958
Average salary	£44,523	£47,660
% change on same period last year	-6.58 %
Average maximum salary	£48,033	£51,362
UK excluding London average salary	£33,140	£32,824
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Programming Languages City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	10564	10609
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.563 %	4.351 %
Salaries quoted	9075	8228
Average minimum salary	£48,092	£52,242
Average salary	£53,577	£57,460
% change on same period last year	-6.75 %
Average maximum salary	£59,061	£62,677
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VB.NET London

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1105 (99.91 %) .NET 2 673 (60.85 %) SQL Server 3 613 (55.42 %) C# 4 525 (47.47 %) SQL 5 482 (43.58 %) ASP.NET 6 479 (43.31 %) Finance 7 415 (37.52 %) VB 8 260 (23.51 %) Insurance 9 245 (22.15 %) XML 10 231 (20.89 %) VB6 11 210 (18.99 %) Microsoft 12 182 (16.46 %) SQL Server 2005 13 177 (16.00 %) Transact-SQL 14 176 (15.91 %) HTML 14 176 (15.91 %) JavaScript

15 162 (14.65 %) Degree 16 161 (14.56 %) Front Office 17 160 (14.47 %) Windows 18 159 (14.38 %) Java 19 155 (14.01 %) SQL Server 2000 20 142 (12.84 %) OO 21 127 (11.48 %) VBA 22 125 (11.30 %) ASP 23 120 (10.85 %) Banking 24 116 (10.49 %) Oracle 25 112 (10.13 %) MS Excel 26 105 (9.494 %) C++ 27 95 (8.590 %) XSLT 28 91 (8.228 %) Derivative 29 81 (7.324 %) VBScript

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1105 (99.91 %) .NET 2 482 (43.58 %) ASP.NET 3 245 (22.15 %) XML 4 176 (15.91 %) HTML 5 125 (11.30 %) ASP 6 95 (8.590 %) XSLT 7 80 (7.233 %) CSS 8 76 (6.872 %) .NET Framework 9 69 (6.239 %) AJAX 9 69 (6.239 %) WebServices 10 50 (4.521 %) COM+ 11 49 (4.430 %) J2EE 12 45 (4.069 %) WinForms 13 41 (3.707 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 25 (2.260 %) XHTML 14 25 (2.260 %) ADO 15 22 (1.989 %) ADO.NET 16 21 (1.899 %) XSL 17 16 (1.447 %) Middleware 18 13 (1.175 %) CSLA.NET	Application Platforms 1 61 (5.515 %) IIS 2 58 (5.244 %) SharePoint 3 17 (1.537 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 16 (1.447 %) CMS 5 13 (1.175 %) MS Exchange 6 12 (1.085 %) BizTalk Server 7 7 (0.633 %) MTS 8 3 (0.271 %) Apache 8 3 (0.271 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 3 (0.271 %) ArcGIS 8 3 (0.271 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 2 (0.181 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (0.181 %) Lotus Domino 9 2 (0.181 %) WorkSite 10 1 (0.090 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 1 (0.090 %) Commerce Server 10 1 (0.090 %) Content Management Server 10 1 (0.090 %) WebSphere MQ 10 1 (0.090 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 1 (0.090 %) SAS
Applications 1 112 (10.13 %) MS Excel 2 32 (2.893 %) MS Office 3 9 (0.814 %) MATLAB 4 7 (0.633 %) MS Project 4 7 (0.633 %) Spreadsheet 5 6 (0.542 %) Photoshop 5 6 (0.542 %) MS Visio 6 2 (0.181 %) InfoPath 7 1 (0.090 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 10 (0.904 %) RMDS 2 3 (0.271 %) LongView 2 3 (0.271 %) GoldMine 2 3 (0.271 %) SAP CRM 3 1 (0.090 %) Beauchamp Fund Manager 3 1 (0.090 %) Eagle PACE 3 1 (0.090 %) Endur 3 1 (0.090 %) e-Work 3 1 (0.090 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.090 %) Great Plains 3 1 (0.090 %) Dynamics CRM 3 1 (0.090 %) Dynamics GP 3 1 (0.090 %) Beauchamp 3 1 (0.090 %) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking 1 55 (4.973 %) Internet 2 35 (3.165 %) Intranet 3 12 (1.085 %) Extranet 4 4 (0.362 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (0.271 %) DNS 5 3 (0.271 %) Reverse Proxy 6 2 (0.181 %) LAN 6 2 (0.181 %) WAN 7 1 (0.090 %) DHCP 7 1 (0.090 %) SMS 7 1 (0.090 %) VoIP 7 1 (0.090 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 673 (60.85 %) SQL Server 2 182 (16.46 %) SQL Server 2005 3 155 (14.01 %) SQL Server 2000 4 77 (6.962 %) SQL Server 7 5 48 (4.340 %) RDBMS 6 41 (3.707 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 38 (3.436 %) DTS 8 35 (3.165 %) Crystal Reports 9 29 (2.622 %) Datawarehouse 10 27 (2.441 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 19 (1.718 %) ETL 12 18 (1.627 %) MS Access 13 14 (1.266 %) MySQL 14 8 (0.723 %) BusinessObjects 15 7 (0.633 %) Reference Data 16 6 (0.542 %) Oracle Reports 16 6 (0.542 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 6 (0.542 %) Oracle 9i 16 6 (0.542 %) Cognos Powerplay 17 5 (0.452 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 80 (7.233 %) Visual Studio 2 20 (1.808 %) NUnit 3 14 (1.266 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 9 (0.814 %) Subversion 4 9 (0.814 %) Rational Rose 5 7 (0.633 %) Oracle Forms 6 3 (0.271 %) PVCS 7 2 (0.181 %) Ant 7 2 (0.181 %) JUnit 8 1 (0.090 %) Eclipse 8 1 (0.090 %) QuickTest Pro 8 1 (0.090 %) XMLSpy 8 1 (0.090 %) ProC 8 1 (0.090 %) MSI 8 1 (0.090 %) InstallShield	General 1 479 (43.31 %) Finance 2 260 (23.51 %) Insurance 3 161 (14.56 %) Front Office 4 120 (10.85 %) Banking 5 57 (5.154 %) Financial Institution 6 49 (4.430 %) Law 6 49 (4.430 %) Pensions 7 44 (3.978 %) Back Office 8 41 (3.707 %) Investment Banking 9 35 (3.165 %) Legal 10 30 (2.712 %) Health 11 28 (2.532 %) Marketing 12 15 (1.356 %) Education 13 12 (1.085 %) Government 14 10 (0.904 %) Games 15 9 (0.814 %) Publishing 15 9 (0.814 %) Retail 16 3 (0.271 %) Advertising 16 3 (0.271 %) Telecoms 16 3 (0.271 %) International Banking
Job Titles 1 804 (72.69 %) Developer 2 438 (39.60 %) .NET Developer 3 274 (24.77 %) VB.NET Developer 4 132 (11.93 %) Analyst 5 116 (10.49 %) C# Developer 6 89 (8.047 %) Programmer 7 81 (7.324 %) Senior Developer 8 66 (5.967 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 58 (5.244 %) VB Developer 10 55 (4.973 %) Lead Developer 11 48 (4.340 %) Analyst Programmer 12 46 (4.159 %) Web Developer 13 42 (3.797 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 14 41 (3.707 %) SQL Developer 15 39 (3.526 %) Architect 15 39 (3.526 %) Senior .NET Developer 15 39 (3.526 %) .NET Programmer 16 38 (3.436 %) VBA Developer 16 38 (3.436 %) Systems Developer 17 37 (3.345 %) VB.NET Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 91 (8.228 %) Derivative 2 44 (3.978 %) Equity Derivative 3 36 (3.255 %) N-Tier 4 34 (3.074 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 32 (2.893 %) Equities 6 28 (2.532 %) Computer Science 6 28 (2.532 %) Index Arbitrage 7 27 (2.441 %) Fixed Income 8 17 (1.537 %) Credit Derivative 9 10 (0.904 %) Mathematics 10 9 (0.814 %) Management Information System 11 8 (0.723 %) Client/Server 11 8 (0.723 %) W3C 12 6 (0.542 %) Replication 13 2 (0.181 %) PKI 13 2 (0.181 %) Market Risk 13 2 (0.181 %) Multithreading 13 2 (0.181 %) Data Conversion 14 1 (0.090 %) Data Extraction 14 1 (0.090 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 160 (14.47 %) Windows 2 70 (6.329 %) UNIX 3 40 (3.617 %) Windows 2000 4 18 (1.627 %) Linux 5 8 (0.723 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (0.181 %) Windows XP 6 2 (0.181 %) Solaris 7 1 (0.090 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 142 (12.84 %) OO 2 59 (5.335 %) Web Development 3 57 (5.154 %) UML 4 50 (4.521 %) Software Engineering 5 41 (3.707 %) Investment Management 6 39 (3.526 %) E-Commerce 7 38 (3.436 %) Asset Management 8 36 (3.255 %) Agile Software Development 9 33 (2.984 %) Project Management 10 30 (2.712 %) SOA 11 27 (2.441 %) OOP 12 23 (2.080 %) RAD 13 22 (1.989 %) CRM 14 21 (1.899 %) OOA/OOD 14 21 (1.899 %) Migration 15 20 (1.808 %) Business Intelligence 16 19 (1.718 %) Scrum 16 19 (1.718 %) Risk Management 16 19 (1.718 %) Document Management 17 18 (1.627 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 613 (55.42 %) C# 2 525 (47.47 %) SQL 3 415 (37.52 %) VB 4 231 (20.89 %) VB6 5 177 (16.00 %) Transact-SQL 6 176 (15.91 %) JavaScript 7 159 (14.38 %) Java 8 127 (11.48 %) VBA 9 105 (9.494 %) C++ 10 81 (7.324 %) VBScript 11 30 (2.712 %) PL/SQL 12 24 (2.170 %) C 13 13 (1.175 %) Python 14 12 (1.085 %) DHTML 15 9 (0.814 %) Shell Script 16 7 (0.633 %) PHP 17 6 (0.542 %) Perl 18 3 (0.271 %) Delphi 19 2 (0.181 %) VC++ 19 2 (0.181 %) Clipper	Qualifications 1 162 (14.65 %) Degree 2 44 (3.978 %) Microsoft Certification 3 9 (0.814 %) MCSD 4 8 (0.723 %) MCAD 5 4 (0.362 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 3 (0.271 %) MCP 7 2 (0.181 %) MCDBA 7 2 (0.181 %) MCPD 8 1 (0.090 %) MCT 8 1 (0.090 %) MCITP 8 1 (0.090 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 21 (1.899 %) QA 2 1 (0.090 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (0.090 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.090 %) SLA 2 1 (0.090 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.090 %) WAI 2 1 (0.090 %) COBIT	System Software 1 9 (0.814 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.542 %) MSMQ 3 1 (0.090 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (0.090 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (0.090 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.090 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 210 (18.99 %) Microsoft 2 116 (10.49 %) Oracle 3 48 (4.340 %) Sybase 4 17 (1.537 %) Bloomberg 5 13 (1.175 %) Reuters 6 10 (0.904 %) Cognos 7 8 (0.723 %) Business Objects 8 6 (0.542 %) Red Hat 8 6 (0.542 %) Citrix 9 5 (0.452 %) Macromedia 9 5 (0.452 %) Hummingbird 10 4 (0.362 %) Laserform 10 4 (0.362 %) IBM 11 3 (0.271 %) ESRI 11 3 (0.271 %) SAP 11 3 (0.271 %) Siebel 12 2 (0.181 %) Interwoven 12 2 (0.181 %) Informatica 12 2 (0.181 %) Lotus 12 2 (0.181 %) Sun