Essex VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Essex 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.NET over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia 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 Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin 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 Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside 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 Seaford Selby Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton 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 Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	15
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	177	254
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.104 %
As % of the category below	16.42 %	19.81 %
Salaries quoted	113	225
Average minimum salary	£31,624	£32,083
Average salary	£33,719	£34,437
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Average maximum salary	£35,814	£36,791
UK excluding London average salary	£33,140	£32,824
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Programming Languages Essex
Matching permanent IT job ads	1078	1282
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.568 %	0.526 %
Salaries quoted	862	1136
Average minimum salary	£32,487	£34,407
Average salary	£34,835	£36,578
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
Average maximum salary	£37,182	£38,749
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Essex 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 Essex region.

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

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

VB.NET
Job Locations

This section 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 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
Colchester	-6	52	£34,292	+38.47 %
Chelmsford	0	17	£28,029	-7.49 %
Brentwood	+10	16	£40,500	+4.25 %
Harlow	-1	7	£36,500	-18.88 %
Southend-on-Sea	-4	3	£39,833	+18.02 %
Waltham Abbey	+4	2	£36,875	+17.06 %
Loughton	-	1	£39,000	-
Maldon	-4	1	£34,000	+65.85 %
Basildon	-14	1	£47,500	+33.08 %

VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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.

1 367 (99.73 %) .NET 2 281 (76.36 %) SQL Server 3 254 (69.02 %) C# 4 164 (44.57 %) ASP.NET 5 159 (43.21 %) Microsoft 6 122 (33.15 %) VB 7 121 (32.88 %) SQL 8 119 (32.34 %) XML 9 91 (24.73 %) SQL Server 2005 10 90 (24.46 %) Web Development 11 87 (23.64 %) Internet 12 65 (17.66 %) Windows 13 60 (16.30 %) ASP 13 60 (16.30 %) Finance 14 55 (14.95 %) C++

15 53 (14.40 %) HTML 15 53 (14.40 %) OO 16 51 (13.86 %) Java 17 50 (13.59 %) SQL Server 2000 18 49 (13.32 %) Visual Studio 19 47 (12.77 %) VB6 20 45 (12.23 %) Transact-SQL 21 43 (11.68 %) JavaScript 21 43 (11.68 %) WebServices 22 35 (9.511 %) XSLT 22 35 (9.511 %) MS Excel 23 32 (8.696 %) Insurance 23 32 (8.696 %) .NET Framework 24 31 (8.424 %) CSS 25 30 (8.152 %) Mathematics

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 1 367 (99.73 %) .NET 2 164 (44.57 %) ASP.NET 3 119 (32.34 %) XML 4 60 (16.30 %) ASP 5 53 (14.40 %) HTML 6 43 (11.68 %) WebServices 7 35 (9.511 %) XSLT 8 32 (8.696 %) .NET Framework 9 31 (8.424 %) CSS 10 21 (5.707 %) WinForms 11 18 (4.891 %) XHTML 12 17 (4.620 %) DOM 13 16 (4.348 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 15 (4.076 %) WCF 15 11 (2.989 %) WSE 15 11 (2.989 %) AJAX 16 8 (2.174 %) COM+ 17 6 (1.630 %) WebSphere 17 6 (1.630 %) XSD 18 5 (1.359 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 29 (7.880 %) SharePoint 2 9 (2.446 %) BizTalk Server 3 8 (2.174 %) IIS 4 6 (1.630 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 5 (1.359 %) Content Management Server 6 4 (1.087 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 3 (0.815 %) CMS 8 2 (0.543 %) MS Exchange 8 2 (0.543 %) DotNetNuke
Applications 1 35 (9.511 %) MS Excel 2 8 (2.174 %) MS Visio 3 3 (0.815 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.272 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (0.272 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 87 (23.64 %) Internet 2 11 (2.989 %) DNS 2 11 (2.989 %) DHCP 3 9 (2.446 %) Ethernet 4 8 (2.174 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (1.902 %) VPN 5 7 (1.902 %) Intranet 6 2 (0.543 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 281 (76.36 %) SQL Server 2 91 (24.73 %) SQL Server 2005 3 50 (13.59 %) SQL Server 2000 4 28 (7.609 %) DTS 5 21 (5.707 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 12 (3.261 %) SQL Server 7 7 8 (2.174 %) MySQL 8 7 (1.902 %) ETL 9 6 (1.630 %) RDBMS 9 6 (1.630 %) Crystal Reports 10 5 (1.359 %) Oracle 9i 10 5 (1.359 %) Oracle 10g 10 5 (1.359 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 3 (0.815 %) Datawarehouse 12 1 (0.272 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 49 (13.32 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (1.087 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 60 (16.30 %) Finance 2 32 (8.696 %) Insurance 3 21 (5.707 %) Marketing 4 8 (2.174 %) Retail 5 5 (1.359 %) Back Office 5 5 (1.359 %) Electronics 6 4 (1.087 %) Health 6 4 (1.087 %) Legal 7 3 (0.815 %) Publishing 8 2 (0.543 %) Education 8 2 (0.543 %) Front Office 8 2 (0.543 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.272 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 290 (78.80 %) Developer 2 192 (52.17 %) .NET Developer 3 51 (13.86 %) Web Developer 4 45 (12.23 %) Analyst 4 45 (12.23 %) VB.NET Developer 5 39 (10.60 %) Programmer 6 37 (10.05 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 35 (9.511 %) .NET Web Developer 8 32 (8.696 %) C# Developer 9 30 (8.152 %) Analyst Programmer 9 30 (8.152 %) Trainee Developer 9 30 (8.152 %) Trainee 10 28 (7.609 %) Applications Developer 11 17 (4.620 %) .NET Applications Developer 12 15 (4.076 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 15 (4.076 %) Development Manager 13 14 (3.804 %) Applications Support 13 14 (3.804 %) SQL Developer 14 12 (3.261 %) Junior 14 12 (3.261 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 30 (8.152 %) Mathematics 2 15 (4.076 %) N-Tier 3 12 (3.261 %) Derivative 4 7 (1.902 %) Tandem 4 7 (1.902 %) Device Driver 5 5 (1.359 %) Client/Server 5 5 (1.359 %) NHS 6 4 (1.087 %) Management Information System 6 4 (1.087 %) Equities 7 3 (0.815 %) Multithreading 8 2 (0.543 %) PDA 8 2 (0.543 %) Fixed Income 9 1 (0.272 %) Clustering 9 1 (0.272 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 1 (0.272 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 65 (17.66 %) Windows 2 12 (3.261 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (1.630 %) Solaris 3 6 (1.630 %) Linux 3 6 (1.630 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (0.543 %) Windows XP 5 1 (0.272 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 90 (24.46 %) Web Development 2 53 (14.40 %) OO 3 29 (7.880 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 24 (6.522 %) Business Analysis 5 21 (5.707 %) UML 6 12 (3.261 %) E-Commerce 7 11 (2.989 %) Business Continuity 8 8 (2.174 %) Migration 8 8 (2.174 %) Scrum 9 7 (1.902 %) OOD 9 7 (1.902 %) Project Management 10 6 (1.630 %) Business Development 11 5 (1.359 %) Content Management 11 5 (1.359 %) Agile Software Development 12 4 (1.087 %) ITIL 12 4 (1.087 %) Document Management 12 4 (1.087 %) Software Engineering 12 4 (1.087 %) Strategic Planning 12 4 (1.087 %) Technical Architecture 13 2 (0.543 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 254 (69.02 %) C# 2 122 (33.15 %) VB 3 121 (32.88 %) SQL 4 55 (14.95 %) C++ 5 51 (13.86 %) Java 6 47 (12.77 %) VB6 7 45 (12.23 %) Transact-SQL 8 43 (11.68 %) JavaScript 9 28 (7.609 %) DHTML 10 14 (3.804 %) ECMAScript 11 9 (2.446 %) C 12 6 (1.630 %) VBA 13 5 (1.359 %) VBScript 14 2 (0.543 %) PL/SQL 15 1 (0.272 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 29 (7.880 %) Degree 2 16 (4.348 %) Microsoft Certification 2 16 (4.348 %) MCSD 3 10 (2.717 %) MCAD 4 6 (1.630 %) PhD 5 2 (0.543 %) MCP
System Software 1 12 (3.261 %) Active Directory 2 5 (1.359 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 159 (43.21 %) Microsoft 2 12 (3.261 %) Oracle 3 5 (1.359 %) Citrix 4 4 (1.087 %) Sybase 4 4 (1.087 %) Sun 5 2 (0.543 %) ProClarity 6 1 (0.272 %) Dell