Cumbria VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Cumbria 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon 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 Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Daresbury Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Durham 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 Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lymm Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pewsey Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Studley Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	23
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	16.22 %	5.660 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£22,500	-
Average salary	£22,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£22,500	-
UK excluding London average salary	£33,055	£33,758
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Programming Languages Cumbria
Matching permanent IT job ads	37	53
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.022 %
Salaries quoted	21	37
Average minimum salary	£23,211	£26,044
Average salary	£27,219	£30,390
% change on same period last year	-10.43 %
Average maximum salary	£31,228	£34,736
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
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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 Cumbria 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 Cumbria region.

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Carlisle	-	1	£25,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cumbria 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 9 (100.00 %) .NET 2 6 (66.67 %) VB.NET 3 5 (55.56 %) C# 3 5 (55.56 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server 4 4 (44.44 %) VB6 5 3 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (33.33 %) SQL 6 2 (22.22 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (22.22 %) HTML 6 2 (22.22 %) Java 6 2 (22.22 %) IIS 6 2 (22.22 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (22.22 %) ASP

6 2 (22.22 %) Intranet 6 2 (22.22 %) Migration 7 1 (11.11 %) SUSE 7 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (11.11 %) Degree 7 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (11.11 %) Education 7 1 (11.11 %) Publishing 7 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft 7 1 (11.11 %) MySQL 7 1 (11.11 %) Oracle 7 1 (11.11 %) JavaScript 7 1 (11.11 %) VBScript 7 1 (11.11 %) CSS 7 1 (11.11 %) JSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cumbria 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 9 (100.00 %) .NET 2 5 (55.56 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (22.22 %) ASP 3 2 (22.22 %) HTML 4 1 (11.11 %) CSS 4 1 (11.11 %) JSP 4 1 (11.11 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (22.22 %) IIS 2 1 (11.11 %) Tomcat 2 1 (11.11 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 2 (22.22 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (11.11 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (11.11 %) Education 1 1 (11.11 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 8 (88.89 %) Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) .NET Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) VB.NET Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) Web Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) Software Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Graduate Software Engineer 4 1 (11.11 %) Graduate	Operating Systems 1 1 (11.11 %) Windows 1 1 (11.11 %) Linux 1 1 (11.11 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (22.22 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 6 (66.67 %) VB.NET 2 5 (55.56 %) C# 3 4 (44.44 %) VB6 4 3 (33.33 %) SQL 5 2 (22.22 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (22.22 %) Java 5 2 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (11.11 %) JavaScript 6 1 (11.11 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) Oracle 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft