The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 90 78 63
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -15
Permanent jobs citing VB 235 273 335
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 2.834% 3.080% 3.569%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.018% 4.918% 6.248%
Number of salaries quoted 202 256 300
Average salary £37,500 £38,250 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.96% +7.74%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,700 £30,050 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4683 5551 5362
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 56.47% 62.62% 57.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4184 4668 4714
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

East of England VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region.

East of England VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England VB Salary Histogram

VB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +10 104 £42,000 +5.00%
Cambridgeshire -22 45 £39,000 -2.50%
Norfolk +31 34 £35,000 +9.37%
Bedfordshire -10 30 £32,500 -8.45%
Essex -11 19 £47,500 +46.15%
Suffolk -19 6 £33,750 +2.27%
VB
England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 315 (64.55%) .NET
2 269 (55.12%) C#
3 267 (54.71%) SQL
4 247 (50.61%) SQL Server
5 184 (37.70%) ASP.NET
6 183 (37.50%) VB.NET
7 151 (30.94%) Windows
8 139 (28.48%) Microsoft
9 116 (23.77%) XML
10 111 (22.75%) HTML
11 107 (21.93%) JavaScript
12 106 (21.72%) VB6
12 106 (21.72%) Degree
13 99 (20.29%) Oracle
14 97 (19.88%) MVC
15 91 (18.65%) ASP
16 88 (18.03%) MS Excel
17 87 (17.83%) CSS
18 84 (17.21%) Java
19 79 (16.19%) T-SQL
20 64 (13.11%) SQL Server 2008
21 61 (12.50%) WCF
22 59 (12.09%) jQuery
23 58 (11.89%) VBA
24 56 (11.48%) .NET Framework
25 54 (11.07%) TDD
26 52 (10.66%) ASP.NET MVC
26 52 (10.66%) IIS
27 51 (10.45%) Visual Studio
28 47 (9.631%) OO

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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
1 315 (64.55%) .NET
2 184 (37.70%) ASP.NET
3 116 (23.77%) XML
4 111 (22.75%) HTML
5 91 (18.65%) ASP
6 87 (17.83%) CSS
7 61 (12.50%) WCF
8 59 (12.09%) jQuery
9 56 (11.48%) .NET Framework
10 52 (10.66%) ASP.NET MVC
11 38 (7.787%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 38 (7.787%) Razor View Engine
12 35 (7.172%) NHibernate
13 30 (6.148%) Web Services
14 27 (5.533%) XSLT
15 26 (5.328%) WinForms
16 23 (4.713%) HTML5
17 22 (4.508%) Silverlight
18 17 (3.484%) Ajax
19 16 (3.279%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 52 (10.66%) IIS
2 28 (5.738%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.893%) BizTalk Server
4 15 (3.074%) MS Exchange
5 14 (2.869%) Apache
6 10 (2.049%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (2.049%) Exchange Server 2003
6 10 (2.049%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (1.844%) CMS
8 8 (1.639%) ColdFusion
8 8 (1.639%) Drupal
9 7 (1.434%) Tomcat
10 6 (1.230%) SAS
11 4 (0.820%) MSMQ
11 4 (0.820%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (0.820%) Captiva
12 3 (0.615%) WordPress
12 3 (0.615%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.615%) WinCC
13 2 (0.410%) LiveLink
Applications
1 88 (18.03%) MS Excel
2 26 (5.328%) MS Office
3 7 (1.434%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (1.025%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.025%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.820%) FrameMaker
5 4 (0.820%) RoboHelp
5 4 (0.820%) Acrobat
5 4 (0.820%) MS Project
5 4 (0.820%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.410%) PaintShop Pro
6 2 (0.410%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.410%) SPSS
6 2 (0.410%) Fireworks
7 1 (0.205%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 10 (2.049%) Tridion
2 6 (1.230%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.820%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.410%) JDE World
5 1 (0.205%) SyteLine
5 1 (0.205%) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.918%) Internet
2 18 (3.689%) HTTP
3 17 (3.484%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.664%) SAN
4 13 (2.664%) SNMP
5 12 (2.459%) DNS
6 11 (2.254%) Ethernet
7 10 (2.049%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (2.049%) NAS
8 9 (1.844%) LAN
9 6 (1.230%) Intranet
10 5 (1.025%) Firewall
11 4 (0.820%) FTP
11 4 (0.820%) Cisco ICM
11 4 (0.820%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.205%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (50.61%) SQL Server
2 64 (13.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 39 (7.992%) Crystal Reports
4 33 (6.762%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (6.557%) SQL Server 2005
6 31 (6.352%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (4.918%) Oracle Reports
8 21 (4.303%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 20 (4.098%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (4.098%) MS Access
10 19 (3.893%) SQL Server 2012
11 16 (3.279%) QlikView
12 14 (2.869%) MySQL
12 14 (2.869%) DB2
13 10 (2.049%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.844%) Oracle OLAP
14 9 (1.844%) OLAP
14 9 (1.844%) Oracle 8/8i
15 6 (1.230%) OLTP
16 4 (0.820%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 51 (10.45%) Visual Studio
2 40 (8.197%) NUnit
3 32 (6.557%) Moq
4 31 (6.352%) Rhino Mocks
5 25 (5.123%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (3.074%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 9 (1.844%) MSTest
8 6 (1.230%) MSI
8 6 (1.230%) QuickTest Pro
8 6 (1.230%) Subversion
8 6 (1.230%) Visual Studio Team System
8 6 (1.230%) Selenium
9 5 (1.025%) TestComplete
9 5 (1.025%) LabVIEW
10 4 (0.820%) PowerBuilder
10 4 (0.820%) JIRA
11 2 (0.410%) ProC
11 2 (0.410%) InstallShield
11 2 (0.410%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.410%) Dreamweaver
General
1 44 (9.016%) Finance
2 26 (5.328%) Manufacturing
2 26 (5.328%) Music
2 26 (5.328%) Music Industry
3 22 (4.508%) Retail
4 16 (3.279%) Marketing
5 12 (2.459%) Electronics
6 10 (2.049%) Advertising
7 6 (1.230%) Games
8 5 (1.025%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.025%) Automotive
8 5 (1.025%) Publishing
9 3 (0.615%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.410%) Law
10 2 (0.410%) Banking
10 2 (0.410%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.205%) French Language
11 1 (0.205%) German Language
11 1 (0.205%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.205%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 259 (53.07%) Developer
2 113 (23.16%) .NET Developer
3 72 (14.75%) Analyst
4 48 (9.836%) Software Developer
5 34 (6.967%) ASP.NET Developer
6 27 (5.533%) Web Developer
7 26 (5.328%) SQL Developer
8 25 (5.123%) Graduate
9 24 (4.918%) Support Analyst
10 23 (4.713%) C# Developer
10 23 (4.713%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.713%) Applications Developer
11 22 (4.508%) Applications Engineer
12 21 (4.303%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.303%) Programmer
13 20 (4.098%) Data Analyst
14 19 (3.893%) Technical Analyst
14 19 (3.893%) Applications Support
14 19 (3.893%) Technical Support
15 18 (3.689%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.943%) SCADA
2 27 (5.533%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.918%) Computer Science
4 17 (3.484%) Mathematics
5 15 (3.074%) N-Tier
6 13 (2.664%) Replication
6 13 (2.664%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.254%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.639%) Visualisation
9 7 (1.434%) Wiki
10 6 (1.230%) SaaS
10 6 (1.230%) FMCG
11 5 (1.025%) Inversion of Control
12 4 (0.820%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.820%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
12 4 (0.820%) Open Source
12 4 (0.820%) RIA
12 4 (0.820%) Data Integration
12 4 (0.820%) Physics
13 3 (0.615%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 151 (30.94%) Windows
2 37 (7.582%) Linux
3 23 (4.713%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (3.893%) UNIX
5 15 (3.074%) AIX
6 13 (2.664%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (2.459%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.230%) Windows CE
9 5 (1.025%) Windows Vista
9 5 (1.025%) Windows XP
10 4 (0.820%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.615%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.615%) Solaris
12 2 (0.410%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (19.88%) MVC
2 54 (11.07%) TDD
3 47 (9.631%) OO
4 44 (9.016%) Web Application Development
5 39 (7.992%) Agile Software Development
6 37 (7.582%) Scrum
7 36 (7.377%) Web Development
8 35 (7.172%) Kanban
9 33 (6.762%) Project Management
10 31 (6.352%) BDD
11 27 (5.533%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (5.328%) Software Engineering
13 24 (4.918%) Workflow
14 21 (4.303%) Service Management
15 20 (4.098%) Unit Testing
15 20 (4.098%) Content Management
16 17 (3.484%) E-Commerce
16 17 (3.484%) ERP
16 17 (3.484%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (3.279%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 269 (55.12%) C#
2 267 (54.71%) SQL
3 183 (37.50%) VB.NET
4 107 (21.93%) JavaScript
5 106 (21.72%) VB6
6 84 (17.21%) Java
7 79 (16.19%) T-SQL
8 58 (11.89%) VBA
9 40 (8.197%) C++
10 37 (7.582%) C
11 31 (6.352%) Perl
12 30 (6.148%) VBScript
13 21 (4.303%) PHP
14 15 (3.074%) Korn
14 15 (3.074%) COBOL
15 14 (2.869%) FoxPro (VFP)
16 10 (2.049%) PL/SQL
16 10 (2.049%) XAML
16 10 (2.049%) Bash shell
17 8 (1.639%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 106 (21.72%) Degree
2 38 (7.787%) MCP
2 38 (7.787%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (7.377%) MCAD
3 36 (7.377%) MCSD
3 36 (7.377%) MCTS
4 13 (2.664%) HNC
5 8 (1.639%) ISEB
6 6 (1.230%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.820%) HND
8 3 (0.615%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.410%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.410%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.459%) QA
2 5 (1.025%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.820%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.410%) SLA
5 1 (0.205%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.205%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.279%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.869%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.049%) Xen
4 3 (0.615%) OpenSSO
5 2 (0.410%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (2.664%) Netcool
1 13 (2.664%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 13 (2.664%) Control-M
1 13 (2.664%) Tivoli
2 10 (2.049%) NetBackup
3 6 (1.230%) SCCM
4 5 (1.025%) Backup Exec
5 4 (0.820%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 4 (0.820%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.615%) BladeLogic
6 3 (0.615%) HP NNM
6 3 (0.615%) OpenView
6 3 (0.615%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 3 (0.615%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 139 (28.48%) Microsoft
2 99 (20.29%) Oracle
3 19 (3.893%) VMware
4 16 (3.279%) BMC
5 14 (2.869%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.254%) IBM
7 10 (2.049%) Citrix
7 10 (2.049%) CommVault
7 10 (2.049%) Postini
8 9 (1.844%) DevExpress
9 8 (1.639%) HP
10 7 (1.434%) Cisco
10 7 (1.434%) Adobe
11 6 (1.230%) NetApp
11 6 (1.230%) Telerik
12 5 (1.025%) Macromedia
12 5 (1.025%) Progress
12 5 (1.025%) SAP
13 4 (0.820%) Kofax
13 4 (0.820%) SolidWorks
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