The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank - 101 85
Permanent jobs citing VB6 0 1 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - 0.080% 0.763%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.123% 1.389%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 7
Average salary - - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
644 811 648
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 73.18% 65.09% 54.96%
Number of salaries quoted 576 700 585
Average salary £35,000 £38,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +11.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB6
South West

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) C++
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 8 (100.00%) VB
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (100.00%) IIS
1 8 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 8 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 8 (100.00%) COM+
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSL
1 8 (100.00%) WSDL
1 8 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 8 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 8 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 8 (100.00%) COM+
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSL
1 8 (100.00%) WSDL
1 8 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 8 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Development Manager
2 4 (50.00%) Head of Development
3 2 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Software Development Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) C++
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 8 (100.00%) VB