Guildford VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Guildford 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Dursley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lymington Lymm Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mirfield Monmouth Monmouthshire New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Saltash Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Cross Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Winsford Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	16
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching permanent IT job ads	54	101
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	11.76 %	23.71 %
Salaries quoted	52	100
Average minimum salary	£29,942	£28,335
Average salary	£32,865	£31,535
% change on same period last year	+4.21 %
Average maximum salary	£35,788	£34,735
UK excluding London average salary	£33,133	£33,055
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Programming Languages Guildford
Matching permanent IT job ads	459	426
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.225 %	0.189 %
Salaries quoted	437	405
Average minimum salary	£32,100	£31,252
Average salary	£35,205	£34,705
% change on same period last year	+1.44 %
Average maximum salary	£38,310	£38,158
UK excluding London average salary	£35,401	£35,481
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
VB Surrey

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Guildford region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Guildford region citing VB also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VB.

1 70 (81.40 %) .NET 2 50 (58.14 %) SQL Server 3 48 (55.81 %) C# 4 33 (38.37 %) ASP 5 31 (36.05 %) XML 5 31 (36.05 %) VB.NET 6 30 (34.88 %) SQL 6 30 (34.88 %) C++ 6 30 (34.88 %) Java 7 28 (32.56 %) Degree 8 23 (26.74 %) Microsoft 9 22 (25.58 %) JavaScript 9 22 (25.58 %) Transact-SQL 9 22 (25.58 %) VBScript 10 20 (23.26 %) VB6

11 19 (22.09 %) C 12 17 (19.77 %) Finance 13 16 (18.60 %) Oracle 13 16 (18.60 %) ASP.NET 13 16 (18.60 %) Windows 14 15 (17.44 %) XSL 14 15 (17.44 %) Pensions 15 14 (16.28 %) IIS 15 14 (16.28 %) HTML 15 14 (16.28 %) Health 16 13 (15.12 %) MS Excel 17 12 (13.95 %) Active Directory 18 11 (12.79 %) SQL Server 2000 18 11 (12.79 %) Visual Studio 19 10 (11.63 %) Documentum

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Guildford region citing VB also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 70 (81.40 %) .NET 2 33 (38.37 %) ASP 3 31 (36.05 %) XML 4 16 (18.60 %) ASP.NET 5 15 (17.44 %) XSL 6 14 (16.28 %) HTML 7 10 (11.63 %) Documentum Webtop 8 9 (10.47 %) ADO.NET 9 5 (5.814 %) WebServices 9 5 (5.814 %) J2ME 9 5 (5.814 %) Middleware 10 4 (4.651 %) WebSphere 11 3 (3.488 %) XHTML 11 3 (3.488 %) WAP 12 2 (2.326 %) J2SE 12 2 (2.326 %) XSLT 12 2 (2.326 %) ADO 12 2 (2.326 %) COM 12 2 (2.326 %) .NET Remoting 12 2 (2.326 %) OLE	Application Platforms 1 14 (16.28 %) IIS 2 10 (11.63 %) Documentum 3 4 (4.651 %) SharePoint 4 2 (2.326 %) ColdFusion 4 2 (2.326 %) MTS 4 2 (2.326 %) Tomcat 4 2 (2.326 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 1 (1.163 %) WebLogic 5 1 (1.163 %) JBoss 5 1 (1.163 %) Apache
Applications 1 13 (15.12 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.163 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.651 %) Internet 2 3 (3.488 %) 3G 2 3 (3.488 %) Wireless 2 3 (3.488 %) GPRS 2 3 (3.488 %) HTTP 2 3 (3.488 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (3.488 %) WINS 2 3 (3.488 %) DNS 3 2 (2.326 %) NFC 3 2 (2.326 %) RFID 3 2 (2.326 %) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (58.14 %) SQL Server 2 11 (12.79 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (8.140 %) Crystal Reports 4 6 (6.977 %) MySQL 4 6 (6.977 %) SQL Server 2005 5 5 (5.814 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 4 (4.651 %) DTS 7 3 (3.488 %) RDBMS 7 3 (3.488 %) MS Access 8 1 (1.163 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 11 (12.79 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (5.814 %) Flash 3 4 (4.651 %) InstallShield 4 3 (3.488 %) MSI 5 1 (1.163 %) Eclipse
General 1 17 (19.77 %) Finance 2 15 (17.44 %) Pensions 3 14 (16.28 %) Health 4 6 (6.977 %) Government 5 5 (5.814 %) Telecoms 6 4 (4.651 %) Insurance 7 3 (3.488 %) Electronics 8 1 (1.163 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 60 (69.77 %) Developer 2 14 (16.28 %) Analyst 2 14 (16.28 %) Consultant 3 12 (13.95 %) .NET Developer 4 9 (10.47 %) Analyst Developer 4 9 (10.47 %) Software Developer 5 8 (9.302 %) Documentum Consultant 6 7 (8.140 %) Systems Developer 7 5 (5.814 %) Database Developer 7 5 (5.814 %) VB Developer 7 5 (5.814 %) Trainee Developer 7 5 (5.814 %) Trainee 8 4 (4.651 %) Software Engineer 9 3 (3.488 %) Junior 9 3 (3.488 %) Applications Developer 9 3 (3.488 %) Support Engineer 9 3 (3.488 %) Support Consultant 9 3 (3.488 %) VB.NET Developer 9 3 (3.488 %) Desktop Analyst 9 3 (3.488 %) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.814 %) Computer Science 2 3 (3.488 %) Clustering 2 3 (3.488 %) Streaming Video 3 2 (2.326 %) Replication 3 2 (2.326 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.326 %) Biometrics 3 2 (2.326 %) Smartcard 3 2 (2.326 %) JavaCard 3 2 (2.326 %) Informatics 4 1 (1.163 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 16 (18.60 %) Windows 2 4 (4.651 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.488 %) Windows NT 4 2 (2.326 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.163 %) Unix 5 1 (1.163 %) AIX 5 1 (1.163 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.163 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (10.47 %) Configuration Management 1 9 (10.47 %) Service Delivery 2 8 (9.302 %) OO 3 7 (8.140 %) Web Development 4 3 (3.488 %) OOD 4 3 (3.488 %) ITIL 4 3 (3.488 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (2.326 %) Project Planning 5 2 (2.326 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (2.326 %) CRM 5 2 (2.326 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (2.326 %) ERP 5 2 (2.326 %) E-Procurement 6 1 (1.163 %) Web Design 6 1 (1.163 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 48 (55.81 %) C# 2 31 (36.05 %) VB.NET 3 30 (34.88 %) C++ 3 30 (34.88 %) SQL 3 30 (34.88 %) Java 4 22 (25.58 %) JavaScript 4 22 (25.58 %) Transact-SQL 4 22 (25.58 %) VBScript 5 20 (23.26 %) VB6 6 19 (22.09 %) C 7 7 (8.140 %) Perl 8 5 (5.814 %) Ruby 8 5 (5.814 %) Python 9 3 (3.488 %) VBA 9 3 (3.488 %) PHP 10 2 (2.326 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.163 %) FoxPro (VFP) 11 1 (1.163 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 28 (32.56 %) Degree 2 7 (8.140 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.488 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 12 (13.95 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.326 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 3 (3.488 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 23 (26.74 %) Microsoft 2 16 (18.60 %) Oracle 3 5 (5.814 %) Macromedia 4 3 (3.488 %) Altiris 5 2 (2.326 %) SAP 5 2 (2.326 %) Baan 5 2 (2.326 %) JD Edwards 5 2 (2.326 %) FileNet 6 1 (1.163 %) Ab Initio 6 1 (1.163 %) Hyperion 6 1 (1.163 %) Sybase