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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 38 20 27
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +7
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 45 142 92
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 4.606% 10.19% 7.331%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.094% 15.25% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 36 127 90
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Programming Languages
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
556 931 689
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 56.91% 66.83% 54.90%
Number of salaries quoted 482 760 586
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB.NET
East of England

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

Essex VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

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

Essex VB.NET Salary Histogram

VB.NET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Basildon -15 11 £47,500 +46.15%
Colchester +7 8 £45,000 +5.88%
Southend-on-Sea - 3 £35,000 -
Brentwood - 2 - -
Harlow +39 1 £47,500 +26.66%
Billericay +2 1 £32,500 +8.33%
VB.NET
East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

1 132 (100.00%) .NET
2 88 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 81 (61.36%) C#
4 74 (56.06%) ASP.NET
5 71 (53.79%) SQL
6 66 (50.00%) Finance
7 56 (42.42%) Microsoft
8 52 (39.39%) XML
9 39 (29.55%) Windows
9 39 (29.55%) Java
10 34 (25.76%) Visual Studio
11 29 (21.97%) XSLT
11 29 (21.97%) SQL Server 2005
12 26 (19.70%) OO
12 26 (19.70%) VB
12 26 (19.70%) HTML
12 26 (19.70%) SQL Server 2008
13 25 (18.94%) jQuery
13 25 (18.94%) XSD
14 24 (18.18%) IIS
14 24 (18.18%) MS Excel
14 24 (18.18%) MVC
15 23 (17.42%) VBA
15 23 (17.42%) WCF
16 22 (16.67%) JavaScript
16 22 (16.67%) CSS
16 22 (16.67%) WinForms
17 20 (15.15%) Silverlight
18 16 (12.12%) Wealth Management
18 16 (12.12%) WPF

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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
1 132 (100.00%) .NET
2 74 (56.06%) ASP.NET
3 52 (39.39%) XML
4 29 (21.97%) XSLT
5 26 (19.70%) HTML
6 25 (18.94%) jQuery
6 25 (18.94%) XSD
7 23 (17.42%) WCF
8 22 (16.67%) CSS
8 22 (16.67%) WinForms
9 20 (15.15%) Silverlight
10 16 (12.12%) WPF
11 15 (11.36%) .NET Framework
12 10 (7.576%) Ajax
12 10 (7.576%) ASP
12 10 (7.576%) Web Services
12 10 (7.576%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (6.061%) ASP.NET MVC 2
14 7 (5.303%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 7 (5.303%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 24 (18.18%) IIS
2 6 (4.545%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.030%) MSMQ
4 3 (2.273%) Captiva
5 1 (0.758%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 24 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.273%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.515%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.758%) SyteLine
1 1 (0.758%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.061%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.030%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (3.030%) Cisco ICM
2 4 (3.030%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 29 (21.97%) SQL Server 2005
3 26 (19.70%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (10.61%) MySQL
5 6 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.545%) MS Access
6 1 (0.758%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.758%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.758%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.758%) DB2
6 1 (0.758%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.758%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (25.76%) Visual Studio
2 14 (10.61%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (3.030%) Subversion
3 4 (3.030%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.515%) NUnit
General
1 66 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (4.545%) Music
2 6 (4.545%) Music Industry
2 6 (4.545%) Advertising
3 1 (0.758%) Back Office
3 1 (0.758%) French Language
3 1 (0.758%) German Language
Job Titles
1 123 (93.18%) Developer
2 72 (54.55%) .NET Developer
3 32 (24.24%) Software Developer
4 24 (18.18%) VB.NET Developer
5 19 (14.39%) C# Developer
6 14 (10.61%) Applications Developer
7 12 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (7.576%) Junior Developer
8 10 (7.576%) Junior
9 8 (6.061%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.303%) Analyst Programmer
10 7 (5.303%) Programmer
10 7 (5.303%) Analyst
10 7 (5.303%) Systems Developer
10 7 (5.303%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (4.545%) .NET Applications Developer
11 6 (4.545%) Junior C# Developer
11 6 (4.545%) C# Software Developer
12 5 (3.788%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
12 5 (3.788%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.303%) Mobile App
1 7 (5.303%) N-Tier
2 4 (3.030%) RIA
3 3 (2.273%) Blog
3 3 (2.273%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.758%) iSeries
4 1 (0.758%) Data Integration
4 1 (0.758%) iPhone
4 1 (0.758%) AS400
4 1 (0.758%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.758%) Replication
4 1 (0.758%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 39 (29.55%) Windows
2 7 (5.303%) Android
3 5 (3.788%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.758%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.758%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.70%) OO
2 24 (18.18%) MVC
3 16 (12.12%) Wealth Management
4 15 (11.36%) Configuration Management
5 11 (8.333%) Workflow
6 10 (7.576%) TDD
7 8 (6.061%) Web Development
7 8 (6.061%) Change Control
8 7 (5.303%) Mobile Application Development
9 5 (3.788%) SOA
9 5 (3.788%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (2.273%) Project Management
10 3 (2.273%) Technical Architecture
11 2 (1.515%) Logistics
11 2 (1.515%) Software Engineering
11 2 (1.515%) Document Management
11 2 (1.515%) Code Coverage
11 2 (1.515%) Unit Testing
11 2 (1.515%) Dependency Injection
12 1 (0.758%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 81 (61.36%) C#
2 71 (53.79%) SQL
3 39 (29.55%) Java
4 26 (19.70%) VB
5 23 (17.42%) VBA
6 22 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.091%) VB6
8 9 (6.818%) VBScript
8 9 (6.818%) Objective-C
9 7 (5.303%) PHP
10 5 (3.788%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.788%) XPath
11 4 (3.030%) Tcl
11 4 (3.030%) C++
11 4 (3.030%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.758%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Degree
2 12 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.758%) MCDBA
3 1 (0.758%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.758%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.030%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.030%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 56 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.030%) Google
2 4 (3.030%) Cisco
2 4 (3.030%) Oracle
3 3 (2.273%) Kofax
3 3 (2.273%) Open Text
Essex, South East
NET Developer£25,000 - £30,000Mint recruitment is currently resourcing for a .NET Developer who is actively looking for a new and exciting challenge. Based in Essex the ...
Mint
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 10 May 2013
Billericay, East Anglia
Software Developer - ASP-NET, C#, VB-NET£30k-£35K plus bonus and stock optionsAn established company are looking for an outstanding Software Developer with strong -NET skills to...
OPUS
Salary: GBP30000 to GBP35000 per annum + Benefits: plus Bonus and Stock Options
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex
Software Applications Developer ( Winforms, SQL Server, Windows Forms, C#.NET, VB.NET ) needed... The ideal candidate will have commercial experience in Winforms, (Windows Forms) Development, C#.NET and...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Billericay, Essex
30k-£35K plus bonus and stock options An established company are looking for an outstanding Software Developer with strong .NET skills to join their growing team. As the...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 to £35000 per annum - plus Bonus and Stock Options
Posted: 19 May 2013
Colchester, Essex
This is a great chance for someone to make the next step in their career where you will get extensive training and development... Computer People are an equal...
Computer People
Salary: £1.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role Essential: - DBA experience with Oracle 10g / 11g Standard Edition Databases on the Microsoft Windows platform. - Oracle Database Performance Tuning (manual) -...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013