Dundee VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Dundee 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	23	23
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	9.322 %
Salaries quoted	2	6
Average minimum salary	£27,500	£24,000
Average salary	£28,750	£24,708
% change on same period last year	+16.35 %
Average maximum salary	£30,000	£25,417
UK excluding London average salary	£33,055	£33,758
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Programming Languages Dundee
Matching permanent IT job ads	70	118
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.048 %
Salaries quoted	54	91
Average minimum salary	£29,657	£29,166
Average salary	£32,112	£30,456
% change on same period last year	+5.43 %
Average maximum salary	£34,567	£31,746
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
VB Scotland

VB
Demand Trend

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

VB
Salary Trend

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

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Dundee 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 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 1 5 (62.50 %) VB6 2 4 (50.00 %) ASP 2 4 (50.00 %) Degree 3 3 (37.50 %) Electronics 3 3 (37.50 %) .NET 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 4 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 4 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 4 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (25.00 %) VB.NET 4 2 (25.00 %) Computer Science 4 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (25.00 %) Manufacturing

4 2 (25.00 %) AJAX 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (12.50 %) Dynamics CRM 5 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 5 1 (12.50 %) Web Development 5 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 5 1 (12.50 %) Replication 5 1 (12.50 %) Silverlight 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 5 1 (12.50 %) Health 5 1 (12.50 %) PHP 5 1 (12.50 %) C# 5 1 (12.50 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Dundee 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 4 (50.00 %) ASP 2 3 (37.50 %) .NET 3 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (25.00 %) AJAX 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (12.50 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (12.50 %) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (12.50 %) MySQL 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Electronics 2 2 (25.00 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 3 1 (12.50 %) Health	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) VB Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Test Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Junior Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Graduate Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Graduate 3 1 (12.50 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Computer Science 2 1 (12.50 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) CRM 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 1 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 1 1 (12.50 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) VB6 2 2 (25.00 %) VB.NET 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP 3 1 (12.50 %) C# 3 1 (12.50 %) Java
Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft