The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 86 105 85
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -20
Permanent jobs citing VB6 5 7 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.476% 0.546% 1.646%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.846% 0.810% 2.838%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 20
Average salary - £47,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +26.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
591 864 740
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 56.23% 67.34% 57.99%
Number of salaries quoted 512 764 623
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB6
East of England

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Essex VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Essex region.

Essex VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Essex region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Colchester - 4 - -
Brentwood - 1 - -
VB6
East of England

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 11 (100.00%) VB
2 7 (63.64%) VB.NET
2 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
3 6 (54.55%) XML
3 6 (54.55%) Java
3 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 5 (45.45%) Finance
5 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
5 4 (36.36%) OO
5 4 (36.36%) SOA
5 4 (36.36%) VBA
5 4 (36.36%) XSD
5 4 (36.36%) XSLT
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (36.36%) SCADA
6 3 (27.27%) WinForms
7 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
7 2 (18.18%) FTP
7 2 (18.18%) Cisco
7 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
7 2 (18.18%) Tcl
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (18.18%) Code Coverage
7 2 (18.18%) VXML
7 2 (18.18%) Windows
7 2 (18.18%) XSL
7 2 (18.18%) IIS
7 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
7 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) XML
3 4 (36.36%) XSD
3 4 (36.36%) XSLT
4 3 (27.27%) WinForms
5 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
5 2 (18.18%) VXML
5 2 (18.18%) XSL
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) WCF
5 2 (18.18%) jQuery
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (18.18%) LINQ to SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Ninject
5 2 (18.18%) Autofac
5 2 (18.18%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) FTP
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco ICM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
1 2 (18.18%) NUnit
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior VB.NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) SCADA
2 2 (18.18%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) OO
1 4 (36.36%) SOA
2 2 (18.18%) Code Coverage
2 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (18.18%) Change Control
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) VB
2 7 (63.64%) VB.NET
3 6 (54.55%) Java
3 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) VBA
5 2 (18.18%) Tcl
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 2 (18.18%) XPath
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle