Croydon VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Croydon 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol 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 Corsham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Dewsbury Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham 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 Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate 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 Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Thetford 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 Lothian West Midlands West Sussex 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	14
Rank change on same period last year	-38
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	72
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	8.240 %	22.50 %
Salaries quoted	22	72
Average minimum salary	£26,000	£34,528
Average salary	£29,045	£35,417
% change on same period last year	-17.98 %
Average maximum salary	£32,091	£36,306
UK excluding London average salary	£33,155	£32,856
% change on same period last year	+0.91 %
Programming Languages Croydon
Matching permanent IT job ads	267	320
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.141 %	0.131 %
Salaries quoted	259	284
Average minimum salary	£34,988	£33,933
Average salary	£37,759	£36,219
% change on same period last year	+4.25 %
Average maximum salary	£40,530	£38,506
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
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VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 65 (100.00 %) .NET 2 58 (89.23 %) SQL Server 3 46 (70.77 %) XML 4 43 (66.15 %) ASP.NET 5 41 (63.08 %) SQL 6 34 (52.31 %) C# 7 27 (41.54 %) HTML 8 26 (40.00 %) Transact-SQL 9 24 (36.92 %) VB 9 24 (36.92 %) SQL Server 2005 10 23 (35.38 %) VB6 10 23 (35.38 %) SQL Server 2000 11 21 (32.31 %) Datawarehouse 11 21 (32.31 %) DTS 12 20 (30.77 %) .NET Framework

13 18 (27.69 %) Web Development 13 18 (27.69 %) JavaScript 13 18 (27.69 %) Visual Studio 14 17 (26.15 %) ASP 15 16 (24.62 %) WebServices 15 16 (24.62 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 15 (23.08 %) OLAP 17 14 (21.54 %) Finance 18 13 (20.00 %) Degree 18 13 (20.00 %) Integration Testing 19 12 (18.46 %) MS Excel 20 11 (16.92 %) XSLT 21 9 (13.85 %) HTTP 21 9 (13.85 %) TCP/IP 22 8 (12.31 %) Microsoft

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 65 (100.00 %) .NET 2 46 (70.77 %) XML 3 43 (66.15 %) ASP.NET 4 27 (41.54 %) HTML 5 20 (30.77 %) .NET Framework 6 17 (26.15 %) ASP 7 16 (24.62 %) WebServices 8 11 (16.92 %) XSLT 9 7 (10.77 %) CSS 10 6 (9.231 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 4 (6.154 %) WinForms 12 3 (4.615 %) XHTML 13 1 (1.538 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 6 (9.231 %) SharePoint 1 6 (9.231 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 12 (18.46 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (13.85 %) HTTP 1 9 (13.85 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (9.231 %) Intranet 2 6 (9.231 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 58 (89.23 %) SQL Server 2 24 (36.92 %) SQL Server 2005 3 23 (35.38 %) SQL Server 2000 4 21 (32.31 %) Datawarehouse 4 21 (32.31 %) DTS 5 15 (23.08 %) OLAP 6 6 (9.231 %) Crystal Reports 6 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server 7 6 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.538 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 18 (27.69 %) Visual Studio 2 16 (24.62 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 14 (21.54 %) Finance 2 6 (9.231 %) Pharmaceutical 2 6 (9.231 %) Insurance 3 5 (7.692 %) Pensions 4 4 (6.154 %) Health 4 4 (6.154 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.538 %) Government 5 1 (1.538 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 54 (83.08 %) Developer 2 35 (53.85 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (27.69 %) VB.NET Developer 4 16 (24.62 %) Software Developer 5 14 (21.54 %) Programmer 6 13 (20.00 %) Analyst 6 13 (20.00 %) Analyst Programmer 7 11 (16.92 %) Developer Analyst 8 8 (12.31 %) VB Developer 9 7 (10.77 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 7 (10.77 %) Architect 9 7 (10.77 %) Graduate 9 7 (10.77 %) Graduate Developer 10 6 (9.231 %) .NET Architect 10 6 (9.231 %) VB6 Developer 10 6 (9.231 %) Graduate Programmer 11 5 (7.692 %) Senior Programmer 11 5 (7.692 %) Senior Developer 11 5 (7.692 %) Senior Analyst 11 5 (7.692 %) Senior Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.538 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 7 (10.77 %) Windows 2 6 (9.231 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (27.69 %) Web Development 2 13 (20.00 %) Integration Testing 3 3 (4.615 %) Workflow 4 2 (3.077 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.538 %) Automated Testing 5 1 (1.538 %) UML 5 1 (1.538 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 41 (63.08 %) SQL 2 34 (52.31 %) C# 3 26 (40.00 %) Transact-SQL 4 24 (36.92 %) VB 5 23 (35.38 %) VB6 6 18 (27.69 %) JavaScript 7 7 (10.77 %) VBScript 8 1 (1.538 %) C 8 1 (1.538 %) C++
Qualifications 1 13 (20.00 %) Degree 2 8 (12.31 %) MCPD 2 8 (12.31 %) MCAD 2 8 (12.31 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (6.154 %) MCSD 4 1 (1.538 %) ISEB 4 1 (1.538 %) ISEB Practitioner	Vendors 1 8 (12.31 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.538 %) CA