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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 22 17 24
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +7
Permanent jobs citing VB 6 26 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Exeter 4.878% 13.47% 3.822%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.792% 15.95% 5.769%
Number of salaries quoted 6 26 6
Average salary £36,750 £31,500 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +23.52%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Exeter
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
77 163 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Exeter 62.60% 84.46% 66.24%
Number of salaries quoted 65 131 93
Average salary £36,000 £31,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Devon

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Salary Trend

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

Exeter VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Exeter region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Exeter VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Exeter 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 23 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (95.65%) C#
2 22 (95.65%) VB.NET
2 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 22 (95.65%) SQL Server 2008
2 22 (95.65%) Windows 7
3 21 (91.30%) SQL Server 2005
3 21 (91.30%) VB6
3 21 (91.30%) Data Modelling
3 21 (91.30%) C++
3 21 (91.30%) Java
3 21 (91.30%) Windows XP
4 20 (86.96%) SLA
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (4.348%) ISA Server
7 1 (4.348%) McAfee
7 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
7 1 (4.348%) HP
7 1 (4.348%) Dell
7 1 (4.348%) Citrix
7 1 (4.348%) PBX
7 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.348%) VPN
7 1 (4.348%) VBScript
7 1 (4.348%) VBA
7 1 (4.348%) JavaScript

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Exeter 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 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) HTML
2 1 (4.348%) XHTML
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.348%) CSS
2 1 (4.348%) WinForms
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.348%) JSON
2 1 (4.348%) WCF
2 1 (4.348%) jQuery
2 1 (4.348%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (4.348%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.348%) IIS
1 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.348%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) PBX
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.348%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (95.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (91.30%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Developer
2 20 (86.96%) Programmer
3 16 (69.57%) C# Developer
4 15 (65.22%) .NET Developer
4 15 (65.22%) C# Programmer
4 15 (65.22%) .NET Programmer
4 15 (65.22%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Java Programmer
5 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Support Technician
6 1 (4.348%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) VB Developer
6 1 (4.348%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (4.348%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.348%) IT Support Technician
6 1 (4.348%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) iPad
1 1 (4.348%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (95.65%) Windows 7
3 21 (91.30%) Windows XP
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.348%) Windows Vista
5 1 (4.348%) Android
5 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.348%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.348%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Data Modelling
2 1 (4.348%) Automated Testing
2 1 (4.348%) MVC
2 1 (4.348%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) C#
1 22 (95.65%) VB.NET
2 21 (91.30%) VB6
2 21 (91.30%) C++
2 21 (91.30%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 1 (4.348%) VBScript
4 1 (4.348%) VBA
4 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (86.96%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) ISA Server
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.348%) XenServer
1 1 (4.348%) Forefront TMG
Vendors
1 1 (4.348%) McAfee
1 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.348%) HP
1 1 (4.348%) Dell
1 1 (4.348%) Citrix
Exeter, Devon
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