The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 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 Colchester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 24 - 27
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 4 0 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 2.469% - 5.830%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.226% - 9.559%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 13
Average salary - - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Colchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
124 144 136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 76.54% 78.26% 60.99%
Number of salaries quoted 108 119 134
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Essex

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 5 (71.43%) VBA
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) VB6
2 3 (42.86%) SCADA
2 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 2 (28.57%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Interwoven
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SyteLine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) TortoiseSVN
1 1 (14.29%) Redmine
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) German Language
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) ERP
1 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Change Management
1 1 (14.29%) Workflow
1 1 (14.29%) Document Management
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
1 5 (71.43%) VBA
2 3 (42.86%) VB6
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Interwoven
1 1 (14.29%) Open Text
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