England VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the 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 VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Carmarthenshire 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 Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley 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 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 London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood 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 Swansea Swindon Tamworth 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	31
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	8557	11864
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.506 %	4.866 %
As % of the category below	10.21 %	11.00 %
Salaries quoted	7327	10048
Average minimum salary	£34,804	£35,761
Average salary	£37,819	£38,729
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Average maximum salary	£40,834	£41,697
UK excluding London average salary	£33,058	£33,731
% change on same period last year	-1.99 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	83780	107867
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.12 %	44.24 %
Salaries quoted	71290	87467
Average minimum salary	£37,412	£39,339
Average salary	£41,061	£43,175
% change on same period last year	-4.89 %
Average maximum salary	£44,710	£47,011
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the 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
London	-9	3129	£47,118	-1.71 %
South East	-10	1836	£36,153	-1.63 %
North West	-6	755	£30,560	+1.23 %
East of England	-6	740	£32,848	-11.96 %
Yorkshire	-6	656	£30,734	+1.93 %
South West	+1	649	£31,282	+1.38 %
West Midlands	-8	549	£31,846	+4.71 %
East Midlands	-14	217	£30,884	-6.04 %
North East	-22	43	£32,387	+11.95 %
Midlands	-3	28	£45,050	+14.46 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the 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 11567 (64.73 %) .NET 2 9421 (52.72 %) SQL Server 3 8319 (46.55 %) SQL 4 7522 (42.09 %) C# 5 6118 (34.24 %) VB.NET 6 5813 (32.53 %) VB6 7 5373 (30.07 %) ASP.NET 8 4205 (23.53 %) XML 9 4186 (23.42 %) ASP 10 3792 (21.22 %) Finance 11 3685 (20.62 %) Microsoft 12 3317 (18.56 %) HTML 13 3242 (18.14 %) Windows 14 3093 (17.31 %) C++ 15 2869 (16.05 %) JavaScript

16 2822 (15.79 %) Oracle 17 2581 (14.44 %) Java 18 2532 (14.17 %) Degree 19 2310 (12.93 %) SQL Server 2005 20 2293 (12.83 %) SQL Server 2000 21 2057 (11.51 %) VBA 22 1935 (10.83 %) MS Excel 23 1858 (10.40 %) OO 24 1476 (8.260 %) VBScript 25 1458 (8.159 %) Banking 26 1391 (7.784 %) Transact-SQL 27 1364 (7.633 %) CSS 28 1304 (7.297 %) UNIX 29 1287 (7.202 %) WebServices 30 1162 (6.503 %) Visual Studio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the 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 11567 (64.73 %) .NET 2 5373 (30.07 %) ASP.NET 3 4205 (23.53 %) XML 4 4186 (23.42 %) ASP 5 3317 (18.56 %) HTML 6 1364 (7.633 %) CSS 7 1287 (7.202 %) WebServices 8 1064 (5.954 %) .NET Framework 9 900 (5.036 %) AJAX 10 681 (3.811 %) XSLT 11 676 (3.783 %) WinForms 12 587 (3.285 %) XHTML 13 553 (3.095 %) J2EE 14 506 (2.832 %) COM+ 15 443 (2.479 %) XSL 16 442 (2.473 %) ADO 17 366 (2.048 %) ADO.NET 18 318 (1.780 %) WebSphere 19 259 (1.449 %) ActiveX 20 246 (1.377 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 905 (5.064 %) IIS 2 619 (3.464 %) SharePoint 3 294 (1.645 %) BizTalk Server 4 261 (1.461 %) MS Exchange 5 186 (1.041 %) CMS 6 161 (0.901 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 150 (0.839 %) MQSeries 8 133 (0.744 %) Apache 9 117 (0.655 %) SAS 10 98 (0.548 %) ColdFusion 11 89 (0.498 %) WebSphere MQ 12 83 (0.464 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 82 (0.459 %) MTS 14 71 (0.397 %) Tomcat 15 69 (0.386 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 66 (0.369 %) WebLogic 17 55 (0.308 %) ArcSDE 18 52 (0.291 %) ArcGIS 19 49 (0.274 %) Lotus Notes 20 47 (0.263 %) JBoss
Applications 1 1935 (10.83 %) MS Excel 2 737 (4.124 %) MS Office 3 149 (0.834 %) Spreadsheet 4 123 (0.688 %) Photoshop 5 108 (0.604 %) MS Visio 6 81 (0.453 %) MS Project 7 64 (0.358 %) MS PowerPoint 8 32 (0.179 %) MATLAB 9 28 (0.157 %) Fireworks 9 28 (0.157 %) AutoCAD 9 28 (0.157 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 17 (0.095 %) SPSS 11 14 (0.078 %) InfoPath 12 10 (0.056 %) PrintSoft PReS 13 5 (0.028 %) CA Clarity 14 4 (0.022 %) Acrobat 14 4 (0.022 %) RoboHelp 14 4 (0.022 %) Simulink 15 3 (0.017 %) QuarkXPress 15 3 (0.017 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 79 (0.442 %) Axapta 2 67 (0.375 %) Dynamics AX 3 46 (0.257 %) Summit 4 45 (0.252 %) Microsoft CRM 5 38 (0.213 %) Oracle Applications 6 35 (0.196 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 31 (0.173 %) Dynamics CRM 8 28 (0.157 %) HFM 8 28 (0.157 %) Navision 9 25 (0.140 %) SoftGrid 9 25 (0.140 %) GoldMine 10 22 (0.123 %) Dynamics NAV 10 22 (0.123 %) RMDS 10 22 (0.123 %) Hyperion Enterprise 11 19 (0.106 %) Line 500 12 17 (0.095 %) Cognos Planning 13 15 (0.084 %) SAP Retail 14 13 (0.073 %) Capstone 14 13 (0.073 %) Hyperion Planning 15 12 (0.067 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 752 (4.208 %) Internet 2 485 (2.714 %) Intranet 3 280 (1.567 %) TCP/IP 4 158 (0.884 %) HTTP 5 129 (0.722 %) DNS 6 113 (0.632 %) SAN 7 110 (0.616 %) LAN 8 100 (0.560 %) WAN 9 83 (0.464 %) Firewall 10 70 (0.392 %) Wireless 11 63 (0.353 %) Extranet 12 50 (0.280 %) DHCP 13 44 (0.246 %) SSL 14 38 (0.213 %) SMTP 15 35 (0.196 %) VPN 15 35 (0.196 %) VoIP 16 30 (0.168 %) LDAP 17 28 (0.157 %) Reverse Proxy 18 26 (0.145 %) 3G 19 25 (0.140 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9421 (52.72 %) SQL Server 2 2310 (12.93 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2293 (12.83 %) SQL Server 2000 4 950 (5.316 %) Crystal Reports 5 683 (3.822 %) MS Access 6 679 (3.800 %) SQL Server 7 7 550 (3.078 %) RDBMS 8 521 (2.916 %) DTS 9 406 (2.272 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 392 (2.194 %) MySQL 11 316 (1.768 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 312 (1.746 %) Datawarehouse 13 289 (1.617 %) BusinessObjects 14 217 (1.214 %) OLAP 15 206 (1.153 %) Oracle Reports 16 189 (1.058 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 180 (1.007 %) Oracle 9i 18 176 (0.985 %) DB2 19 169 (0.946 %) GIS 20 166 (0.929 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 1162 (6.503 %) Visual Studio 2 458 (2.563 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 187 (1.046 %) Flash 4 147 (0.823 %) ClearCase 5 136 (0.761 %) Oracle Forms 6 122 (0.683 %) Dreamweaver 7 120 (0.672 %) QuickTest Pro 8 101 (0.565 %) InstallShield 9 100 (0.560 %) TestDirector 10 97 (0.543 %) NUnit 11 86 (0.481 %) MSI 12 59 (0.330 %) Subversion 13 58 (0.325 %) Paros 14 57 (0.319 %) Fiddler 14 57 (0.319 %) WinRunner 15 53 (0.297 %) PowerBuilder 15 53 (0.297 %) Rational Rose 16 48 (0.269 %) LoadRunner 17 46 (0.257 %) PVCS 18 45 (0.252 %) SilkTest	General 1 3792 (21.22 %) Finance 2 1458 (8.159 %) Banking 3 1009 (5.646 %) Pensions 4 793 (4.438 %) Front Office 5 788 (4.410 %) Health 6 746 (4.175 %) Insurance 7 706 (3.951 %) Investment Banking 8 509 (2.848 %) Back Office 9 460 (2.574 %) Retail 10 408 (2.283 %) Marketing 11 344 (1.925 %) Education 12 240 (1.343 %) Telecoms 13 219 (1.226 %) Law 14 215 (1.203 %) Government 15 192 (1.074 %) Financial Institution 16 190 (1.063 %) Manufacturing 17 188 (1.052 %) Legal 18 130 (0.727 %) Publishing 19 129 (0.722 %) Games 20 127 (0.711 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 10270 (57.47 %) Developer 2 3540 (19.81 %) .NET Developer 3 3207 (17.95 %) Analyst 4 1713 (9.586 %) VB Developer 5 1619 (9.060 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1566 (8.763 %) Programmer 7 1458 (8.159 %) Software Developer 8 1456 (8.148 %) C# Developer 9 1164 (6.514 %) Web Developer 10 1054 (5.898 %) Analyst Programmer 11 894 (5.003 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 892 (4.992 %) Senior Developer 13 758 (4.242 %) Software Engineer 14 753 (4.214 %) Applications Support 15 747 (4.180 %) Consultant 16 704 (3.940 %) SQL Developer 17 693 (3.878 %) Support Analyst 18 690 (3.861 %) VB6 Developer 19 576 (3.223 %) Junior 20 490 (2.742 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 566 (3.167 %) Derivative 2 474 (2.652 %) Computer Science 3 419 (2.345 %) Client/Server 4 339 (1.897 %) N-Tier 5 323 (1.807 %) Mathematics 6 314 (1.757 %) Equities 7 222 (1.242 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 201 (1.125 %) Fixed Income 9 174 (0.974 %) Management Information System 10 123 (0.688 %) Clustering 11 112 (0.627 %) Equity Derivative 12 98 (0.548 %) Credit Derivative 13 97 (0.543 %) NHS 14 87 (0.487 %) AS400 15 85 (0.476 %) W3C 16 82 (0.459 %) Mainframe 17 80 (0.448 %) Replication 18 79 (0.442 %) EPoS 19 78 (0.436 %) Market Risk 20 74 (0.414 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 3242 (18.14 %) Windows 2 1304 (7.297 %) UNIX 3 565 (3.162 %) Linux 4 493 (2.759 %) Windows 2000 5 317 (1.774 %) Windows NT 6 289 (1.617 %) Windows XP 6 289 (1.617 %) Solaris 7 284 (1.589 %) Windows Server 2003 8 101 (0.565 %) VMS 9 77 (0.431 %) AIX 10 33 (0.185 %) Windows Mobile 11 22 (0.123 %) HPUX 12 19 (0.106 %) Windows CE 13 12 (0.067 %) MVS 14 9 (0.050 %) Mac OS X 14 9 (0.050 %) OpenVMS 15 7 (0.039 %) Symbian OS 16 5 (0.028 %) NetWare 16 5 (0.028 %) zOS 17 4 (0.022 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 1858 (10.40 %) OO 2 907 (5.076 %) UML 3 877 (4.908 %) Web Development 4 689 (3.856 %) Project Management 5 466 (2.608 %) CRM 6 420 (2.350 %) E-Commerce 7 382 (2.138 %) Business Intelligence 8 348 (1.947 %) OOD 8 348 (1.947 %) Agile Software Development 9 327 (1.830 %) Software Engineering 10 326 (1.824 %) Business Analysis 11 325 (1.819 %) ERP 12 303 (1.696 %) Risk Management 13 301 (1.684 %) Asset Management 14 295 (1.651 %) Migration 15 291 (1.628 %) Scrum 16 289 (1.617 %) ITIL 17 275 (1.539 %) Unit Testing 18 259 (1.449 %) Systems Analysis 19 253 (1.416 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 8319 (46.55 %) SQL 2 7522 (42.09 %) C# 3 6118 (34.24 %) VB.NET 4 5813 (32.53 %) VB6 5 3093 (17.31 %) C++ 6 2869 (16.05 %) JavaScript 7 2581 (14.44 %) Java 8 2057 (11.51 %) VBA 9 1476 (8.260 %) VBScript 10 1391 (7.784 %) Transact-SQL 11 1116 (6.245 %) C 12 672 (3.760 %) PL/SQL 13 553 (3.095 %) Perl 14 527 (2.949 %) PHP 15 366 (2.048 %) Delphi 16 293 (1.640 %) DHTML 17 274 (1.533 %) Shell Script 18 272 (1.522 %) VC++ 19 128 (0.716 %) COBOL 20 82 (0.459 %) Python	Qualifications 1 2532 (14.17 %) Degree 2 855 (4.785 %) Microsoft Certification 3 418 (2.339 %) MCSD 4 280 (1.567 %) MCP 5 248 (1.388 %) MCAD 6 197 (1.102 %) ISEB 7 130 (0.727 %) MCSE 8 81 (0.453 %) HND 9 45 (0.252 %) PhD 10 37 (0.207 %) HNC 11 32 (0.179 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 30 (0.168 %) ITIL Certification 13 25 (0.140 %) Cisco Certification 14 23 (0.129 %) MCPD 15 22 (0.123 %) MCDBA 16 19 (0.106 %) MCSA 16 19 (0.106 %) MCTS 17 15 (0.084 %) MCITP 18 14 (0.078 %) ISTQB 19 12 (0.067 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 356 (1.992 %) QA 2 153 (0.856 %) SLA 3 108 (0.604 %) WAI 4 48 (0.269 %) ISO9001 5 27 (0.151 %) TickIT 6 9 (0.050 %) HL7 7 8 (0.045 %) COBIT 8 6 (0.034 %) Basel II 9 5 (0.028 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 9 5 (0.028 %) ISO17799 9 5 (0.028 %) ISO27001 10 2 (0.011 %) DICOM 10 2 (0.011 %) 21 CFR Part 11 11 1 (0.006 %) ISO9000 11 1 (0.006 %) ISO12207 11 1 (0.006 %) JTAG	System Software 1 514 (2.876 %) Active Directory 2 81 (0.453 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 70 (0.392 %) MSMQ 4 57 (0.319 %) Terminal Services 5 51 (0.285 %) Terminal Server 6 47 (0.263 %) VMware ESX 7 31 (0.173 %) NetBackup 8 21 (0.118 %) Nmap 8 21 (0.118 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 15 (0.084 %) Oracle RAC 9 15 (0.084 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 15 (0.084 %) Backup Exec 10 13 (0.073 %) ISA Server 11 12 (0.067 %) Xen 12 9 (0.050 %) MetaFrame 13 6 (0.034 %) VMware GSX 13 6 (0.034 %) VMware Workstation 14 4 (0.022 %) Oracle RMAN 14 4 (0.022 %) NDS 15 2 (0.011 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 57 (0.319 %) MOM 2 43 (0.241 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 35 (0.196 %) AutoSys 4 32 (0.179 %) CONTROL-M 5 28 (0.157 %) Tivoli 6 21 (0.118 %) Nessus 7 18 (0.101 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 17 (0.095 %) Netcool 9 14 (0.078 %) OpenView 10 13 (0.073 %) Legato 10 13 (0.073 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 10 13 (0.073 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 12 (0.067 %) SCOM 11 12 (0.067 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 12 11 (0.062 %) Tivoli Monitoring 13 8 (0.045 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 13 8 (0.045 %) CiscoWorks 13 8 (0.045 %) EMC NetWorker 14 6 (0.034 %) SCCM 14 6 (0.034 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 3685 (20.62 %) Microsoft 2 2822 (15.79 %) Oracle 3 560 (3.134 %) Sybase 4 330 (1.847 %) Citrix 5 289 (1.617 %) Business Objects 6 165 (0.923 %) IBM 7 160 (0.895 %) TIBCO 8 157 (0.879 %) SAP 9 154 (0.862 %) Cognos 10 133 (0.744 %) Bloomberg 11 127 (0.711 %) VMware 12 111 (0.621 %) Reuters 13 106 (0.593 %) HP 14 88 (0.492 %) Siebel 15 82 (0.459 %) ESRI 16 81 (0.453 %) Hyperion 17 77 (0.431 %) VERITAS 18 76 (0.425 %) Sage 19 72 (0.403 %) Red Hat 20 63 (0.353 %) Actuate