Croydon VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Croydon region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited VB over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Durham Dursley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lymm Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Market Harborough Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Pewsey Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochdale Rochester Romford Romsey Ross-on-Wye Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Studley Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torquay Towcester Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Cross Wantage Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	20
Rank change on same period last year	-37
Matching permanent IT job ads	12	44
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	4.959 %	15.07 %
Salaries quoted	12	41
Average minimum salary	£27,417	£30,854
Average salary	£30,958	£31,732
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Average maximum salary	£34,500	£32,610
UK excluding London average salary	£33,131	£33,644
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Programming Languages Croydon
Matching permanent IT job ads	242	292
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.122 %
Salaries quoted	237	255
Average minimum salary	£33,990	£33,841
Average salary	£36,916	£36,049
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Average maximum salary	£39,841	£38,257
UK excluding London average salary	£35,210	£35,524
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Croydon region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 35 (83.33 %) .NET 1 35 (83.33 %) VB6 2 32 (76.19 %) SQL Server 3 28 (66.67 %) VB.NET 4 25 (59.52 %) XML 5 20 (47.62 %) HTML 6 19 (45.24 %) SQL 7 18 (42.86 %) JavaScript 7 18 (42.86 %) ASP 7 18 (42.86 %) Finance 8 16 (38.10 %) Web Development 9 15 (35.71 %) ASP.NET 10 14 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 11 13 (30.95 %) HTTP 11 13 (30.95 %) TCP/IP

12 12 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 13 10 (23.81 %) Degree 14 9 (21.43 %) Microsoft 15 8 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 15 8 (19.05 %) MCAD 15 8 (19.05 %) MCPD 16 6 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 16 6 (14.29 %) CSS 17 5 (11.90 %) SQL Server 2000 17 5 (11.90 %) Insurance 18 4 (9.524 %) WinForms 18 4 (9.524 %) Financial Institution 18 4 (9.524 %) MCSD 18 4 (9.524 %) MS Excel 18 4 (9.524 %) Transact-SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 35 (83.33 %) .NET 2 25 (59.52 %) XML 3 20 (47.62 %) HTML 4 18 (42.86 %) ASP 5 15 (35.71 %) ASP.NET 6 12 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (14.29 %) CSS 8 4 (9.524 %) WinForms 9 1 (2.381 %) WebServices 9 1 (2.381 %) XHTML 9 1 (2.381 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.381 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 4 (9.524 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 13 (30.95 %) HTTP 1 13 (30.95 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (76.19 %) SQL Server 2 6 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (11.90 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (7.143 %) Informix 5 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (2.381 %) OLAP 5 1 (2.381 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (2.381 %) ReportNet	Development Applications 1 3 (7.143 %) Visual Studio
General 1 18 (42.86 %) Finance 2 5 (11.90 %) Insurance 3 4 (9.524 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (7.143 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.381 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 35 (83.33 %) Developer 2 14 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 12 (28.57 %) VB Developer 3 12 (28.57 %) Software Developer 4 11 (26.19 %) VB.NET Developer 5 6 (14.29 %) Analyst 5 6 (14.29 %) VB6 Developer 6 4 (9.524 %) Web Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Programmer 7 3 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (4.762 %) Analyst Programmer 9 1 (2.381 %) C Programmer 9 1 (2.381 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (2.381 %) Information Analyst 9 1 (2.381 %) Operations Analyst 9 1 (2.381 %) C++ Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.143 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.381 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (38.10 %) Web Development 2 14 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 3 2 (4.762 %) GAP Analysis 3 2 (4.762 %) Workflow 4 1 (2.381 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 35 (83.33 %) VB6 2 28 (66.67 %) VB.NET 3 19 (45.24 %) SQL 4 18 (42.86 %) JavaScript 5 4 (9.524 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.381 %) VBScript 6 1 (2.381 %) C 6 1 (2.381 %) C# 6 1 (2.381 %) C++
Qualifications 1 10 (23.81 %) Degree 2 8 (19.05 %) MCAD 2 8 (19.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (19.05 %) MCPD 3 4 (9.524 %) MCSD	Vendors 1 9 (21.43 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.381 %) Cognos