England VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Dursley East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Flintshire Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Honiton Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton Lymm Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Melksham Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Selby Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Studley Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	47
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	8368	8137
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.300 %	3.389 %
As % of the category below	9.745 %	7.680 %
Salaries quoted	7516	7157
Average minimum salary	£32,697	£32,679
Average salary	£35,492	£35,389
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Average maximum salary	£38,286	£38,099
UK excluding London average salary	£33,286	£32,774
% change on same period last year	+1.56 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	85871	105944
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.12 %	44.13 %
Salaries quoted	72998	85778
Average minimum salary	£37,346	£39,300
Average salary	£40,972	£43,144
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Average maximum salary	£44,598	£46,988
UK excluding London average salary	£35,221	£35,522
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
VB.NET UK

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the England region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

VB.NET
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing VB.NET within the England region over the 3 months to 9 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	+19	2219	£42,452	+0.43 %
South East	-1	1959	£36,210	+3.16 %
South West	+19	886	£31,792	+5.56 %
East of England	+5	876	£33,692	-1.56 %
West Midlands	+3	817	£31,343	+3.35 %
North West	-2	758	£32,186	+1.52 %
Yorkshire	-9	546	£29,976	-2.96 %
East Midlands	+26	380	£32,112	+6.50 %
North East	-9	50	£33,628	+20.73 %
Midlands	+13	22	£37,750	+20.42 %

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VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 17148 (99.77 %) .NET 2 11484 (66.82 %) SQL Server 3 10465 (60.89 %) ASP.NET 4 8654 (50.35 %) C# 5 6888 (40.08 %) SQL 6 6125 (35.64 %) VB 7 5133 (29.87 %) XML 8 4123 (23.99 %) Microsoft 9 3891 (22.64 %) HTML 10 3761 (21.88 %) JavaScript 11 3347 (19.47 %) SQL Server 2005 12 3237 (18.83 %) ASP 13 3161 (18.39 %) VB6 14 2934 (17.07 %) Finance 15 2850 (16.58 %) SQL Server 2000

16 2287 (13.31 %) CSS 17 2109 (12.27 %) Windows 18 2106 (12.25 %) Degree 19 2001 (11.64 %) WebServices 20 1877 (10.92 %) MS Excel 21 1868 (10.87 %) Transact-SQL 22 1850 (10.76 %) OO 23 1846 (10.74 %) Visual Studio 24 1780 (10.36 %) Oracle 25 1605 (9.338 %) AJAX 26 1509 (8.780 %) Web Development 27 1425 (8.291 %) .NET Framework 28 1417 (8.245 %) Java 29 1345 (7.826 %) C++ 30 1326 (7.715 %) Microsoft Certification

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17148 (99.77 %) .NET 2 10465 (60.89 %) ASP.NET 3 5133 (29.87 %) XML 4 3891 (22.64 %) HTML 5 3237 (18.83 %) ASP 6 2287 (13.31 %) CSS 7 2001 (11.64 %) WebServices 8 1605 (9.338 %) AJAX 9 1425 (8.291 %) .NET Framework 10 1037 (6.034 %) XSLT 11 1009 (5.871 %) WinForms 12 781 (4.544 %) XHTML 13 545 (3.171 %) ADO.NET 14 456 (2.653 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 428 (2.490 %) XSL 16 352 (2.048 %) COM+ 17 257 (1.495 %) WCF 18 221 (1.286 %) J2EE 19 196 (1.140 %) WPF 20 193 (1.123 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 1308 (7.610 %) SharePoint 2 841 (4.893 %) IIS 3 551 (3.206 %) BizTalk Server 4 435 (2.531 %) CMS 5 371 (2.159 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 125 (0.727 %) MS Exchange 7 109 (0.634 %) ColdFusion 8 102 (0.593 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 65 (0.378 %) Apache 10 53 (0.308 %) Content Management Server 11 51 (0.297 %) MTS 12 42 (0.244 %) SAS 13 38 (0.221 %) Documentum 14 35 (0.204 %) Tomcat 15 31 (0.180 %) WebSphere MQ 16 29 (0.169 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 26 (0.151 %) ArcGIS 18 25 (0.145 %) Exchange Server 2003 19 22 (0.128 %) Commerce Server 20 19 (0.111 %) MapXtreme
Applications 1 1877 (10.92 %) MS Excel 2 457 (2.659 %) MS Office 3 156 (0.908 %) Photoshop 4 91 (0.529 %) MS Visio 5 63 (0.367 %) Fireworks 6 59 (0.343 %) MS Project 7 58 (0.337 %) InfoPath 8 32 (0.186 %) MS PowerPoint 9 28 (0.163 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 27 (0.157 %) MATLAB 11 17 (0.099 %) CA Clarity 12 14 (0.081 %) AutoCAD 13 6 (0.035 %) S-PLUS 14 4 (0.023 %) Acrobat 15 3 (0.017 %) SPSS 15 3 (0.017 %) ArcView 16 2 (0.012 %) Paint Shop Pro 16 2 (0.012 %) PrintSoft PReS	Business Applications 1 66 (0.384 %) Microsoft CRM 2 59 (0.343 %) Dynamics CRM 3 56 (0.326 %) Summit 4 25 (0.145 %) Navision 5 16 (0.093 %) Bond Adapt 6 13 (0.076 %) Line 500 6 13 (0.076 %) RMDS 6 13 (0.076 %) SalesLogix 7 12 (0.070 %) Great Plains 8 11 (0.064 %) GoldMine 8 11 (0.064 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 9 8 (0.047 %) Oracle Applications 10 6 (0.035 %) FRONT ARENA 11 5 (0.029 %) Dynamics AX 11 5 (0.029 %) SAP CRM 11 5 (0.029 %) Oracle CRM 12 4 (0.023 %) Pivotal CRM 12 4 (0.023 %) LongView 12 4 (0.023 %) Line 50 13 3 (0.017 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 943 (5.487 %) Internet 2 505 (2.938 %) Intranet 3 164 (0.954 %) Extranet 4 80 (0.465 %) TCP/IP 5 51 (0.297 %) HTTP 6 48 (0.279 %) SSL 7 43 (0.250 %) LAN 7 43 (0.250 %) VoIP 8 39 (0.227 %) DNS 8 39 (0.227 %) HTTPS 9 34 (0.198 %) WAN 10 29 (0.169 %) SMTP 11 27 (0.157 %) CTI 11 27 (0.157 %) Firewall 12 23 (0.134 %) WINS 13 22 (0.128 %) Wireless 14 21 (0.122 %) Reverse Proxy 15 20 (0.116 %) FTP 16 19 (0.111 %) GPRS 17 18 (0.105 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11484 (66.82 %) SQL Server 2 3347 (19.47 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2850 (16.58 %) SQL Server 2000 4 869 (5.056 %) Crystal Reports 5 735 (4.276 %) SQL Server 7 6 597 (3.474 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 494 (2.874 %) DTS 8 464 (2.700 %) MS Access 9 410 (2.386 %) MySQL 10 376 (2.188 %) RDBMS 11 284 (1.652 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 218 (1.268 %) Datawarehouse 13 182 (1.059 %) OLAP 14 152 (0.884 %) GIS 15 147 (0.855 %) Oracle Reports 16 137 (0.797 %) Oracle 10g 17 135 (0.785 %) DB2 18 124 (0.721 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 19 106 (0.617 %) BusinessObjects 20 105 (0.611 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 1846 (10.74 %) Visual Studio 2 400 (2.327 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 299 (1.740 %) Flash 4 152 (0.884 %) NUnit 5 150 (0.873 %) Dreamweaver 6 65 (0.378 %) Subversion 7 33 (0.192 %) Oracle Forms 8 26 (0.151 %) InstallShield 9 23 (0.134 %) ClearCase 10 20 (0.116 %) QuickTest Pro 11 18 (0.105 %) WebSpeed 11 18 (0.105 %) Bugzilla 12 15 (0.087 %) PowerBuilder 12 15 (0.087 %) CruiseControl 13 14 (0.081 %) LabVIEW 14 13 (0.076 %) Rational Rose 15 11 (0.064 %) Eclipse 15 11 (0.064 %) InterDev 16 9 (0.052 %) WinRunner 16 9 (0.052 %) TestDirector	General 1 2934 (17.07 %) Finance 2 1111 (6.464 %) Pensions 3 959 (5.580 %) Insurance 4 699 (4.067 %) Health 5 536 (3.119 %) Retail 6 533 (3.101 %) Banking 7 525 (3.055 %) Marketing 8 370 (2.153 %) Back Office 9 327 (1.903 %) Front Office 10 293 (1.705 %) Education 11 277 (1.612 %) Law 12 243 (1.414 %) Legal 13 225 (1.309 %) Government 14 217 (1.263 %) Telecoms 15 202 (1.175 %) Financial Institution 16 158 (0.919 %) Manufacturing 17 156 (0.908 %) Investment Banking 18 142 (0.826 %) Games 19 123 (0.716 %) Publishing 20 112 (0.652 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 13390 (77.91 %) Developer 2 7931 (46.15 %) .NET Developer 3 4209 (24.49 %) VB.NET Developer 4 2235 (13.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 2024 (11.78 %) Web Developer 6 1761 (10.25 %) Analyst 7 1739 (10.12 %) C# Developer 8 1635 (9.513 %) Software Developer 9 1559 (9.071 %) Programmer 10 1468 (8.541 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 1284 (7.471 %) Senior Developer 12 943 (5.487 %) Analyst Programmer 13 846 (4.922 %) VB Developer 14 838 (4.876 %) .NET Web Developer 15 683 (3.974 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 16 663 (3.858 %) SQL Developer 17 658 (3.828 %) Applications Developer 18 638 (3.712 %) Junior 19 624 (3.631 %) Senior .NET Developer 20 603 (3.508 %) .NET Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 428 (2.490 %) Computer Science 2 386 (2.246 %) N-Tier 3 368 (2.141 %) Client/Server 4 212 (1.233 %) Mathematics 5 164 (0.954 %) Asset Management 6 153 (0.890 %) Management Information System 7 142 (0.826 %) Derivative 8 125 (0.727 %) W3C 9 83 (0.483 %) EPoS 10 75 (0.436 %) Equities 11 73 (0.425 %) Tandem 12 72 (0.419 %) PDA 13 59 (0.343 %) NHS 14 57 (0.332 %) Fixed Income 15 56 (0.326 %) Web 2.0 16 55 (0.320 %) Equity Derivative 17 54 (0.314 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 18 50 (0.291 %) French Language 19 46 (0.268 %) Replication 20 45 (0.262 %) Fund Management
Operating Systems 1 2109 (12.27 %) Windows 2 399 (2.322 %) Unix 3 223 (1.297 %) Linux 4 162 (0.943 %) Windows 2000 5 131 (0.762 %) Windows XP 6 78 (0.454 %) Windows Server 2003 7 65 (0.378 %) Windows NT 8 24 (0.140 %) Windows Mobile 9 21 (0.122 %) Windows CE 10 18 (0.105 %) Solaris 11 9 (0.052 %) AIX 11 9 (0.052 %) FreeBSD 12 4 (0.023 %) zOS 13 3 (0.017 %) OS/400 13 3 (0.017 %) Mac OS X 14 1 (0.006 %) MVS 14 1 (0.006 %) Windows XP Embedded 14 1 (0.006 %) Windows Vista 14 1 (0.006 %) VxWorks 14 1 (0.006 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 1850 (10.76 %) OO 2 1509 (8.780 %) Web Development 3 951 (5.533 %) UML 4 780 (4.538 %) E-Commerce 5 703 (4.090 %) Project Management 6 485 (2.822 %) CRM 7 429 (2.496 %) Scrum 8 374 (2.176 %) Agile Software Development 9 334 (1.943 %) Content Management 10 321 (1.868 %) OOP 11 298 (1.734 %) Migration 12 291 (1.693 %) Unit Testing 13 284 (1.652 %) Business Intelligence 14 275 (1.600 %) Web Design 15 266 (1.548 %) Extreme Programming 16 254 (1.478 %) OOD 17 197 (1.146 %) OOA/OOD 17 197 (1.146 %) Systems Analysis 17 197 (1.146 %) Business Analysis 18 180 (1.047 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 8654 (50.35 %) C# 2 6888 (40.08 %) SQL 3 6125 (35.64 %) VB 4 3761 (21.88 %) JavaScript 5 3161 (18.39 %) VB6 6 1868 (10.87 %) Transact-SQL 7 1417 (8.245 %) Java 8 1345 (7.826 %) C++ 9 849 (4.940 %) VBScript 10 805 (4.684 %) VBA 11 620 (3.607 %) C 12 492 (2.863 %) PHP 13 368 (2.141 %) PL/SQL 14 360 (2.095 %) DHTML 15 187 (1.088 %) Perl 16 160 (0.931 %) VC++ 17 118 (0.687 %) Delphi 18 94 (0.547 %) ActionScript 19 64 (0.372 %) Python 20 60 (0.349 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 2106 (12.25 %) Degree 2 1326 (7.715 %) Microsoft Certification 3 608 (3.538 %) MCSD 4 439 (2.554 %) MCAD 5 413 (2.403 %) MCP 6 75 (0.436 %) MCTS 7 65 (0.378 %) HND 8 59 (0.343 %) MCPD 9 58 (0.337 %) MCSE 10 45 (0.262 %) ISEB 11 31 (0.180 %) MCSA 12 29 (0.169 %) MCDBA 12 29 (0.169 %) MCITP 13 28 (0.163 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 23 (0.134 %) PhD 15 11 (0.064 %) PMP 15 11 (0.064 %) PMI Certification 15 11 (0.064 %) HNC 16 9 (0.052 %) ITIL Certification 17 8 (0.047 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 112 (0.652 %) QA 2 35 (0.204 %) SLA 3 32 (0.186 %) ISO9001 4 27 (0.157 %) WAI 5 13 (0.076 %) ISO8583 6 4 (0.023 %) 21 CFR Part 11 6 4 (0.023 %) HL7 7 3 (0.017 %) GAMP 8 2 (0.012 %) ISO9000 8 2 (0.012 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 2 (0.012 %) Basel II 8 2 (0.012 %) WCAG 9 1 (0.006 %) MiFID 9 1 (0.006 %) PCI DSS 9 1 (0.006 %) TickIT 9 1 (0.006 %) IAS 39	System Software 1 148 (0.861 %) MSMQ 2 143 (0.832 %) Active Directory 3 34 (0.198 %) AquaLogic 4 31 (0.180 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 14 (0.081 %) Terminal Services 6 10 (0.058 %) MetaFrame 6 10 (0.058 %) Terminal Server 7 5 (0.029 %) VMware GSX 7 5 (0.029 %) VMware ESX 8 2 (0.012 %) NDS 9 1 (0.006 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 25 (0.145 %) SCOM 2 13 (0.076 %) MIIS 3 10 (0.058 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 9 (0.052 %) Unicenter 5 3 (0.017 %) Tivoli 5 3 (0.017 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 3 (0.017 %) ServiceCenter 6 2 (0.012 %) MOM	Vendors 1 4123 (23.99 %) Microsoft 2 1780 (10.36 %) Oracle 3 217 (1.263 %) Sybase 4 140 (0.815 %) IBM 5 106 (0.617 %) Business Objects 6 103 (0.599 %) Sage 7 100 (0.582 %) Cognos 8 99 (0.576 %) Citrix 9 98 (0.570 %) Macromedia 10 56 (0.326 %) Reuters 11 53 (0.308 %) Bloomberg 12 46 (0.268 %) Adobe 13 45 (0.262 %) Interwoven 14 43 (0.250 %) Siebel 15 42 (0.244 %) Progress 16 39 (0.227 %) Remedy 16 39 (0.227 %) VMware 17 37 (0.215 %) SAP 18 35 (0.204 %) BEA 19 32 (0.186 %) Dundas