The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 68 88 80
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -8
Permanent jobs citing VB 17 7 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.584% 0.510% 1.640%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.926% 1.028% 3.925%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 18
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £30,000 £19,350
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £39,600 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
581 681 637
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 54.15% 49.60% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 350 523 467
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Scotland

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 16 (64.00%) SQL Server
3 15 (60.00%) .NET
3 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (44.00%) Finance
5 10 (40.00%) C#
5 10 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (28.00%) VBA
7 6 (24.00%) Windows
7 6 (24.00%) VB.NET
7 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (24.00%) Degree
8 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 5 (20.00%) MS Access
9 4 (16.00%) MS Office
9 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
9 4 (16.00%) CSS
9 4 (16.00%) XSLT
9 4 (16.00%) OLAP
9 4 (16.00%) COBOL
9 4 (16.00%) ETL
9 4 (16.00%) Unisys
9 4 (16.00%) Investment Management
9 4 (16.00%) Dimensional Modelling
9 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
9 4 (16.00%) ALGOL
9 4 (16.00%) jQuery
9 4 (16.00%) VB6
9 4 (16.00%) MVC

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 15 (60.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (16.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) XSLT
2 4 (16.00%) jQuery
3 3 (12.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Portal
3 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
3 2 (8.000%) OpenROAD
3 2 (8.000%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 10 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (16.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (64.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (20.00%) MS Access
4 4 (16.00%) OLAP
5 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.000%) Informix
6 2 (8.000%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (8.000%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (8.000%) DB2
6 2 (8.000%) Ingres
6 2 (8.000%) RDBMS
6 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.00%) Retail
3 2 (8.000%) Banking
4 1 (4.000%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Analyst
3 6 (24.00%) Support Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.000%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Support Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Junior
5 2 (8.000%) Junior Support Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Specialist
5 2 (8.000%) Junior Microsoft Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Support Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) UNIX
2 3 (12.00%) Solaris
3 2 (8.000%) HPUX
3 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
3 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.000%) Windows 7
3 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) ETL
1 4 (16.00%) Investment Management
1 4 (16.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 4 (16.00%) MVC
2 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (8.000%) Software Distribution
2 2 (8.000%) Software Engineering
2 2 (8.000%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (8.000%) System Testing
2 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (8.000%) Asset Management
3 1 (4.000%) Workflow
3 1 (4.000%) Data Management
3 1 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (4.000%) Time Management
3 1 (4.000%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) C#
3 7 (28.00%) VBA
4 6 (24.00%) VB.NET
5 4 (16.00%) COBOL
5 4 (16.00%) ALGOL
5 4 (16.00%) VB6
6 2 (8.000%) C
6 2 (8.000%) Perl
6 2 (8.000%) VBScript
7 1 (4.000%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.000%) Delphi
7 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.000%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (8.000%) SCCM
1 2 (8.000%) SCOM
2 1 (4.000%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Unisys
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle
4 2 (8.000%) Sun
4 2 (8.000%) DevExpress
5 1 (4.000%) Fujitsu
5 1 (4.000%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.000%) HP
Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
The Junior Developer must have good knowledge of at least one Microsoft visual programming language (C#, .Net, VB etc) as well as experience with relational databases and MySQL...
Boston Capel
Salary: £18k to £25k depending on experience
Posted: 21 May 2013