The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 45 31 46
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +15
Permanent jobs citing VB 25 13 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 3.962% 3.631% 1.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.865% 6.599% 2.500%
Number of salaries quoted 23 13 4
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +13.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £26,550
10% offered a salary of more than £47,800 £50,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
282 197 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 44.69% 55.03% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 255 178 157
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
West Midlands

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Coventry VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 33 (63.46%) Microsoft
2 27 (51.92%) .NET
3 26 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 25 (48.08%) C#
5 24 (46.15%) ASP.NET
6 20 (38.46%) SQL
7 19 (36.54%) C++
7 19 (36.54%) Java
8 18 (34.62%) UNIX
9 17 (32.69%) Python
10 15 (28.85%) SharePoint
10 15 (28.85%) Windows
10 15 (28.85%) CSS
10 15 (28.85%) XML
10 15 (28.85%) SAP
10 15 (28.85%) JavaScript
10 15 (28.85%) Oracle
10 15 (28.85%) jQuery
11 14 (26.92%) VMware
11 14 (26.92%) SCCM
12 13 (25.00%) .NET Framework
13 12 (23.08%) COM
14 11 (21.15%) XSL
14 11 (21.15%) Web Services
14 11 (21.15%) Solaris
14 11 (21.15%) Linux
14 11 (21.15%) MySQL
14 11 (21.15%) Perl
14 11 (21.15%) PHP
14 11 (21.15%) Delphi

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 27 (51.92%) .NET
2 24 (46.15%) ASP.NET
3 15 (28.85%) CSS
3 15 (28.85%) XML
3 15 (28.85%) jQuery
4 13 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 12 (23.08%) COM
6 11 (21.15%) XSL
6 11 (21.15%) Web Services
6 11 (21.15%) DHTML
6 11 (21.15%) HTML
6 11 (21.15%) Application Packaging
6 11 (21.15%) WCF
6 11 (21.15%) WPF
6 11 (21.15%) Ajax
6 11 (21.15%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 8 (15.38%) J2EE
8 4 (7.692%) EJB
8 4 (7.692%) Web Dynpro
8 4 (7.692%) Java EE 5
Application Platforms
1 15 (28.85%) SharePoint
2 11 (21.15%) Apache
2 11 (21.15%) Tomcat
2 11 (21.15%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (7.692%) NetWeaver
3 4 (7.692%) SAP Portal
4 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.923%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 9 (17.31%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.846%) MS Office
2 2 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (3.846%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (21.15%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.923%) Cisco PIX
1 1 (1.923%) Internet
1 1 (1.923%) Firewall
1 1 (1.923%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (1.923%) SAN
1 1 (1.923%) DHCP
1 1 (1.923%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (21.15%) MySQL
3 5 (9.615%) DB2
4 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.769%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.769%) DTS
5 2 (3.846%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Selenium
2 4 (7.692%) Xcode
General
1 10 (19.23%) Finance
2 4 (7.692%) Legal
3 2 (3.846%) Retail
3 2 (3.846%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 11 (21.15%) .NET Web Developer
3 11 (21.15%) Web Developer
3 11 (21.15%) Applications Packager
4 10 (19.23%) Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Systems Test Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Systems Tester
5 7 (13.46%) Test Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Tester
6 4 (7.692%) Graduate
6 4 (7.692%) Applications Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (7.692%) QA Tester
6 4 (7.692%) Designer
7 3 (5.769%) MI Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Desktop Support
9 1 (1.923%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Handset
2 4 (7.692%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) UNIX
2 15 (28.85%) Windows
3 11 (21.15%) Solaris
3 11 (21.15%) Linux
3 11 (21.15%) OpenVMS
4 7 (13.46%) Windows 2000
5 4 (7.692%) Windows Phone
5 4 (7.692%) Windows Phone 7
5 4 (7.692%) Android
6 2 (3.846%) Windows XP
6 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.846%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.15%) MVC
1 11 (21.15%) Web Development
2 7 (13.46%) Manual Testing
2 7 (13.46%) Automated Testing
3 4 (7.692%) OO
3 4 (7.692%) OOD
3 4 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (7.692%) Scrum
4 3 (5.769%) Test Strategy
4 3 (5.769%) Data Transformation
4 3 (5.769%) ETL
4 3 (5.769%) Data Modelling
5 2 (3.846%) Data Analysis
5 2 (3.846%) Software Engineering
5 2 (3.846%) Migration
5 2 (3.846%) Project Management
6 1 (1.923%) Change Control
6 1 (1.923%) Incident Management
6 1 (1.923%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) C#
2 20 (38.46%) SQL
3 19 (36.54%) C++
3 19 (36.54%) Java
4 17 (32.69%) Python
5 15 (28.85%) JavaScript
6 11 (21.15%) Perl
6 11 (21.15%) PHP
6 11 (21.15%) Delphi
6 11 (21.15%) XAML
7 6 (11.54%) VBScript
7 6 (11.54%) VB.NET
8 3 (5.769%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.923%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 4 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.846%) MCSE
3 2 (3.846%) MCP
3 2 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.923%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) VMware Workstation
2 3 (5.769%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.846%) XenApp
4 1 (1.923%) XenServer
4 1 (1.923%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.923%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.923%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (1.923%) IAG
4 1 (1.923%) UAG
4 1 (1.923%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) SCCM
2 4 (7.692%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (1.923%) SCOM
3 1 (1.923%) Cacti
3 1 (1.923%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (1.923%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.85%) SAP
2 15 (28.85%) Oracle
3 14 (26.92%) VMware
4 10 (19.23%) HP
5 4 (7.692%) Sybase
6 3 (5.769%) Cisco
7 2 (3.846%) CA
7 2 (3.846%) Citrix
7 2 (3.846%) Avaya
7 2 (3.846%) SIMUL8
8 1 (1.923%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.923%) Symantec
8 1 (1.923%) NetApp
8 1 (1.923%) EMC
8 1 (1.923%) CheckPoint
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
have a picture of the person we are looking for: You have worked on projects involving C# or VB, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, COM, DHTML, XAML,CSS, JavaScript,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013