East of England VB6 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeenshire Abingdon Avon Banchory Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Gravesend Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth Lymm 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 Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Pewsey Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rochdale Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Sale Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	121
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	200	205
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.105 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	2.811 %	2.934 %
Salaries quoted	179	163
Average minimum salary	£32,012	£32,382
Average salary	£35,031	£34,938
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Average maximum salary	£38,050	£37,494
UK excluding London average salary	£33,054	£33,083
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	7116	6986
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.748 %	2.865 %
Salaries quoted	6025	5950
Average minimum salary	£33,077	£32,906
Average salary	£36,274	£36,019
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Average maximum salary	£39,472	£39,132
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VB6 England

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region.

VB6
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

VB6
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridgeshire	-2	78	£33,007	+0.71 %
Hertfordshire	+17	67	£38,462	+5.75 %
Essex	-13	25	£35,654	-6.06 %
Suffolk	+21	24	£28,333	-8.00 %
Norfolk	-4	7	£34,800	+9.89 %
Bedfordshire	-19	3	£31,500	-15.56 %
East Anglia	+10	1	£37,500	+36.36 %

VB6 England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 426 (100.00 %) VB 2 369 (86.62 %) .NET 3 252 (59.15 %) VB.NET 4 234 (54.93 %) C# 5 219 (51.41 %) SQL Server 6 172 (40.38 %) SQL 7 154 (36.15 %) ASP.NET 8 131 (30.75 %) XML 9 115 (27.00 %) ASP 10 105 (24.65 %) Microsoft 11 79 (18.54 %) Degree 12 78 (18.31 %) Oracle 13 68 (15.96 %) OO 14 67 (15.73 %) UML 15 66 (15.49 %) Windows

16 63 (14.79 %) C++ 16 63 (14.79 %) OOD 16 63 (14.79 %) Web Development 17 54 (12.68 %) SQL Server 2000 18 50 (11.74 %) HTML 19 48 (11.27 %) Insurance 20 43 (10.09 %) Microsoft Certification 20 43 (10.09 %) JavaScript 21 42 (9.859 %) CSS 21 42 (9.859 %) WinForms 22 40 (9.390 %) Retail 22 40 (9.390 %) SQL Server 2005 23 38 (8.920 %) Project Management 24 37 (8.685 %) Visual Studio 25 36 (8.451 %) C

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 369 (86.62 %) .NET 2 154 (36.15 %) ASP.NET 3 131 (30.75 %) XML 4 115 (27.00 %) ASP 5 50 (11.74 %) HTML 6 42 (9.859 %) CSS 6 42 (9.859 %) WinForms 7 34 (7.981 %) ADO.NET 8 32 (7.512 %) WebServices 9 29 (6.808 %) .NET Framework 10 17 (3.991 %) AJAX 10 17 (3.991 %) SOAP 11 15 (3.521 %) XSLT 12 11 (2.582 %) XSL 13 9 (2.113 %) COM 14 7 (1.643 %) ADO 15 6 (1.408 %) COM+ 15 6 (1.408 %) Ruby on Rails 15 6 (1.408 %) XHTML 16 5 (1.174 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 15 (3.521 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (1.643 %) SharePoint 2 7 (1.643 %) IIS 3 4 (0.939 %) MTS 4 3 (0.704 %) Office Communications Server 5 1 (0.235 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.235 %) Apache
Applications 1 19 (4.460 %) MS Excel 2 5 (1.174 %) MS Project 3 2 (0.469 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.235 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (0.704 %) GoldMine 1 3 (0.704 %) Line 500 2 2 (0.469 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 6 (1.408 %) Internet 2 3 (0.704 %) Extranet 2 3 (0.704 %) Intranet 3 2 (0.469 %) HTTP 3 2 (0.469 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 219 (51.41 %) SQL Server 2 54 (12.68 %) SQL Server 2000 3 40 (9.390 %) SQL Server 2005 4 20 (4.695 %) MS Access 5 18 (4.225 %) Crystal Reports 5 18 (4.225 %) SQL Server 7 6 11 (2.582 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 9 (2.113 %) DTS 8 7 (1.643 %) Oracle 9i 9 6 (1.408 %) Oracle 10g 9 6 (1.408 %) Oracle 11g 10 3 (0.704 %) ETL 10 3 (0.704 %) RDBMS 10 3 (0.704 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 3 (0.704 %) OLAP 11 2 (0.469 %) Oracle Reports 11 2 (0.469 %) MySQL 11 2 (0.469 %) Datawarehouse 11 2 (0.469 %) SQLPlus 12 1 (0.235 %) SQLite
Development Applications 1 37 (8.685 %) Visual Studio 2 10 (2.347 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 9 (2.113 %) InstallShield 4 3 (0.704 %) ProC 5 2 (0.469 %) NUnit 5 2 (0.469 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 48 (11.27 %) Insurance 2 40 (9.390 %) Retail 3 33 (7.746 %) Finance 4 23 (5.399 %) Multimedia 5 22 (5.164 %) Pensions 6 18 (4.225 %) Health 7 11 (2.582 %) Construction 8 10 (2.347 %) Education 8 10 (2.347 %) Manufacturing 9 6 (1.408 %) Back Office 10 4 (0.939 %) Front Office 10 4 (0.939 %) Government 10 4 (0.939 %) Banking 10 4 (0.939 %) Local Government 11 3 (0.704 %) Billing 12 2 (0.469 %) Automotive 12 2 (0.469 %) Online Banking 13 1 (0.235 %) Pharmaceutical 13 1 (0.235 %) Financial Institution 13 1 (0.235 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 319 (74.88 %) Developer 2 122 (28.64 %) .NET Developer 3 94 (22.07 %) Software Developer 4 79 (18.54 %) Programmer 5 74 (17.37 %) Analyst 6 68 (15.96 %) C# Developer 7 58 (13.62 %) VB.NET Developer 8 56 (13.15 %) VB Developer 9 54 (12.68 %) Senior Developer 10 49 (11.50 %) Analyst Programmer 11 28 (6.573 %) .NET Programmer 12 27 (6.338 %) VB.NET Programmer 13 25 (5.869 %) ASP.NET Developer 13 25 (5.869 %) Senior Software Developer 14 23 (5.399 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 14 23 (5.399 %) Software Engineer 14 23 (5.399 %) Analyst Developer 15 22 (5.164 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 16 21 (4.930 %) Senior Analyst 17 18 (4.225 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 18 (4.225 %) Computer Science 2 11 (2.582 %) Mathematics 3 8 (1.878 %) Client/Server 4 5 (1.174 %) N-Tier 5 4 (0.939 %) PDA 6 3 (0.704 %) Thin Client 6 3 (0.704 %) Fat Client 7 2 (0.469 %) W3C 7 2 (0.469 %) Data Protection Act 7 2 (0.469 %) Equities 7 2 (0.469 %) Smartphone 8 1 (0.235 %) Mainframe 8 1 (0.235 %) EFT 8 1 (0.235 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 66 (15.49 %) Windows 2 15 (3.521 %) Linux 2 15 (3.521 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (0.235 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 68 (15.96 %) OO 2 67 (15.73 %) UML 3 63 (14.79 %) OOD 3 63 (14.79 %) Web Development 4 38 (8.920 %) Project Management 5 28 (6.573 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 25 (5.869 %) Business Analysis 7 21 (4.930 %) E-Commerce 8 19 (4.460 %) Agile Software Development 9 15 (3.521 %) Extreme Programming 10 13 (3.052 %) Matrix Management 10 13 (3.052 %) ITIL 11 11 (2.582 %) Change Management 12 10 (2.347 %) Data Analysis 13 8 (1.878 %) Document Management 13 8 (1.878 %) Migration 14 7 (1.643 %) TDD 15 5 (1.174 %) OOA/OOD 15 5 (1.174 %) RAD 16 4 (0.939 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 426 (100.00 %) VB 2 252 (59.15 %) VB.NET 3 234 (54.93 %) C# 4 172 (40.38 %) SQL 5 63 (14.79 %) C++ 6 43 (10.09 %) JavaScript 7 36 (8.451 %) C 8 27 (6.338 %) Java 9 23 (5.399 %) PHP 10 22 (5.164 %) VBA 11 19 (4.460 %) Perl 12 14 (3.286 %) Ruby 13 10 (2.347 %) Transact-SQL 14 9 (2.113 %) VBScript 15 8 (1.878 %) PL/SQL 16 5 (1.174 %) Delphi 17 4 (0.939 %) DHTML 18 1 (0.235 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 79 (18.54 %) Degree 2 43 (10.09 %) Microsoft Certification 3 34 (7.981 %) MCSD 4 5 (1.174 %) MCP 5 3 (0.704 %) MCAD 6 2 (0.469 %) HND 7 1 (0.235 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.469 %) WAI 2 1 (0.235 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.235 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 105 (24.65 %) Microsoft 2 78 (18.31 %) Oracle 3 3 (0.704 %) Sage 4 2 (0.469 %) ProClarity 4 2 (0.469 %) Citrix 4 2 (0.469 %) Sybase 5 1 (0.235 %) Cognos 5 1 (0.235 %) Macromedia