Fife VB Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Fife 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 over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Castleford Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wickford Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	12
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	22.54 %	10.34 %
Salaries quoted	15	3
Average minimum salary	£26,000	£26,000
Average salary	£28,567	£27,333
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Average maximum salary	£31,133	£28,667
UK excluding London average salary	£33,085	£33,622
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Programming Languages Fife
Matching permanent IT job ads	71	29
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.012 %
Salaries quoted	53	25
Average minimum salary	£29,117	£21,585
Average salary	£32,053	£25,244
% change on same period last year	+26.97 %
Average maximum salary	£34,990	£28,902
UK excluding London average salary	£35,495	£35,768
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
VB Scotland

VB
Demand Trend

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

VB
Salary Trend

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

VB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Fife region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Fife region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Newport-on-Tay	-	1	£30,000	-

VB Scotland

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Fife 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 22 (91.67 %) SQL Server 2 18 (75.00 %) VB6 3 16 (66.67 %) .NET 4 15 (62.50 %) ASP 5 9 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 5 9 (37.50 %) Marketing 6 7 (29.17 %) VB.NET 7 4 (16.67 %) Web Development 8 3 (12.50 %) OO 8 3 (12.50 %) Finance 9 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 9 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 9 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel 9 2 (8.333 %) C 9 2 (8.333 %) C#

9 2 (8.333 %) C++ 9 2 (8.333 %) Java 9 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 10 1 (4.167 %) Dynamics CRM 10 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (4.167 %) Degree 10 1 (4.167 %) Computer Science 10 1 (4.167 %) Subversion 10 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineering 10 1 (4.167 %) AJAX 10 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 10 1 (4.167 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (4.167 %) CRM 10 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint 10 1 (4.167 %) Progress 4GL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Fife 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 16 (66.67 %) .NET 2 15 (62.50 %) ASP 3 9 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (4.167 %) AJAX 4 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (4.167 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (91.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.167 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (4.167 %) Informix 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Subversion	General 1 9 (37.50 %) Marketing 2 3 (12.50 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Education
Job Titles 1 16 (66.67 %) Developer 2 11 (45.83 %) Software Developer 3 6 (25.00 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Graduate Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) C Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Graduate .NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) C++ Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Graduate	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) EPoS 1 1 (4.167 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 2 1 (4.167 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Web Development 2 3 (12.50 %) OO 3 1 (4.167 %) CRM 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (4.167 %) Migration 3 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (4.167 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 18 (75.00 %) VB6 2 7 (29.17 %) VB.NET 3 2 (8.333 %) C 3 2 (8.333 %) C# 3 2 (8.333 %) C++ 3 2 (8.333 %) Java 4 1 (4.167 %) Progress 4GL	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle