Dorset VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Dorset 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 29 August 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 Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Cradley Heath Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hove Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Ringwood Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Seaford Selby Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	47
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	71	42
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	12.63 %	5.683 %
Salaries quoted	68	41
Average minimum salary	£27,214	£28,608
Average salary	£29,464	£31,147
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Average maximum salary	£31,714	£33,686
UK excluding London average salary	£32,993	£33,027
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Programming Languages Dorset
Matching permanent IT job ads	562	739
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.307 %	0.310 %
Salaries quoted	471	627
Average minimum salary	£29,442	£35,426
Average salary	£32,431	£38,487
% change on same period last year	-15.73 %
Average maximum salary	£35,421	£41,547
UK excluding London average salary	£35,257	£35,638
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
VB.NET South West

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

VB.NET
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Bournemouth	+25	43	£32,906	+7.95 %
Poole	+10	25	£23,543	-28.24 %
Wimborne	-	1	£37,500	-

VB.NET South West

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Dorset 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.

1 168 (95.45 %) .NET 2 126 (71.59 %) C# 3 114 (64.77 %) ASP.NET 4 95 (53.98 %) SQL Server 5 60 (34.09 %) SQL 6 54 (30.68 %) VB 7 44 (25.00 %) XML 8 35 (19.89 %) Degree 9 34 (19.32 %) Microsoft 10 33 (18.75 %) VB6 11 30 (17.05 %) Transact-SQL 12 28 (15.91 %) HTML 12 28 (15.91 %) SQL Server 2000 13 24 (13.64 %) JavaScript 13 24 (13.64 %) Visual Studio

13 24 (13.64 %) Windows 14 23 (13.07 %) CSS 14 23 (13.07 %) Oracle 15 22 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 16 21 (11.93 %) ASP 17 19 (10.80 %) Pensions 18 18 (10.23 %) Finance 18 18 (10.23 %) WebServices 19 17 (9.659 %) Web Development 20 15 (8.523 %) Internet 21 14 (7.955 %) Software Engineering 21 14 (7.955 %) WinForms 22 13 (7.386 %) XSLT 22 13 (7.386 %) MS Excel 22 13 (7.386 %) SharePoint

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 1 168 (95.45 %) .NET 2 114 (64.77 %) ASP.NET 3 44 (25.00 %) XML 4 28 (15.91 %) HTML 5 23 (13.07 %) CSS 6 22 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 7 21 (11.93 %) ASP 8 18 (10.23 %) WebServices 9 14 (7.955 %) WinForms 10 13 (7.386 %) XSLT 11 11 (6.250 %) AJAX 12 10 (5.682 %) Silverlight 13 4 (2.273 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 3 (1.705 %) COM 15 2 (1.136 %) SOAP 16 1 (0.568 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 13 (7.386 %) SharePoint 2 11 (6.250 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 10 (5.682 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (1.136 %) IIS 4 2 (1.136 %) Apache 4 2 (1.136 %) Joomla! 5 1 (0.568 %) CMS
Applications 1 13 (7.386 %) MS Excel 2 4 (2.273 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.568 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.568 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 9 (5.114 %) Great Plains 1 9 (5.114 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 15 (8.523 %) Internet 2 2 (1.136 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 95 (53.98 %) SQL Server 2 28 (15.91 %) SQL Server 2000 3 10 (5.682 %) BusinessObjects 4 9 (5.114 %) SQL Server 2005 5 6 (3.409 %) Crystal Reports 5 6 (3.409 %) MySQL 6 4 (2.273 %) TOAD 7 2 (1.136 %) GIS 8 1 (0.568 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 24 (13.64 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (2.841 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.136 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 19 (10.80 %) Pensions 2 18 (10.23 %) Finance 3 12 (6.818 %) Police 4 10 (5.682 %) Music 5 7 (3.977 %) Banking 6 5 (2.841 %) Marketing 7 4 (2.273 %) Health 8 3 (1.705 %) Insurance 9 2 (1.136 %) Retail 9 2 (1.136 %) Automotive 9 2 (1.136 %) Education 9 2 (1.136 %) Telecoms 10 1 (0.568 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 130 (73.86 %) Developer 2 73 (41.48 %) .NET Developer 3 39 (22.16 %) C# Developer 4 38 (21.59 %) Software Developer 5 30 (17.05 %) VB.NET Developer 6 26 (14.77 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 25 (14.20 %) CSharp Software Developer 8 23 (13.07 %) Junior 9 21 (11.93 %) Web Developer 10 20 (11.36 %) Senior Developer 11 15 (8.523 %) Development Manager 11 15 (8.523 %) Senior Software Developer 11 15 (8.523 %) Web Development Manager 11 15 (8.523 %) Web Manager 12 14 (7.955 %) Senior C# Developer 12 14 (7.955 %) Junior Developer 13 13 (7.386 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 14 11 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 14 11 (6.250 %) Applications Developer 15 10 (5.682 %) Graduate	Miscellaneous 1 3 (1.705 %) Computer Science 2 1 (0.568 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 24 (13.64 %) Windows 2 4 (2.273 %) Windows XP 3 2 (1.136 %) Windows Vista 3 2 (1.136 %) Solaris 3 2 (1.136 %) Linux 3 2 (1.136 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (9.659 %) Web Development 2 14 (7.955 %) Software Engineering 3 12 (6.818 %) UML 4 10 (5.682 %) RUP 4 10 (5.682 %) Scrum 4 10 (5.682 %) Extreme Programming 5 9 (5.114 %) Project Management 6 8 (4.545 %) Web Design 6 8 (4.545 %) OO 7 4 (2.273 %) ERP 8 3 (1.705 %) OOD 8 3 (1.705 %) E-Commerce 8 3 (1.705 %) Email Marketing 9 2 (1.136 %) Internet Marketing 9 2 (1.136 %) Unit Testing 9 2 (1.136 %) Integration Testing 9 2 (1.136 %) SOA 9 2 (1.136 %) CRM 9 2 (1.136 %) OOP 9 2 (1.136 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 126 (71.59 %) C# 2 60 (34.09 %) SQL 3 54 (30.68 %) VB 4 33 (18.75 %) VB6 5 30 (17.05 %) Transact-SQL 6 24 (13.64 %) JavaScript 7 9 (5.114 %) C++ 8 6 (3.409 %) VC++ 9 4 (2.273 %) PL/SQL 9 4 (2.273 %) Java 10 2 (1.136 %) PHP 11 1 (0.568 %) C 11 1 (0.568 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 35 (19.89 %) Degree 2 13 (7.386 %) Microsoft Certification 3 12 (6.818 %) MCAD 3 12 (6.818 %) MCSD 4 11 (6.250 %) MCP 5 2 (1.136 %) MCPD
Vendors 1 34 (19.32 %) Microsoft 2 23 (13.07 %) Oracle 3 12 (6.818 %) Sage 4 10 (5.682 %) Business Objects 5 9 (5.114 %) Sun 5 9 (5.114 %) CODA 5 9 (5.114 %) Agresso 6 1 (0.568 %) SAP 6 1 (0.568 %) Adobe