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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 48 27 29
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +2
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 37 60 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 4.125% 8.242% 5.603%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.679% 11.76% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 37 56 23
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,600 £27,500 £24,200
10% offered a salary of more than £44,300 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Programming Languages
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
554 510 258
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 61.76% 70.05% 55.60%
Number of salaries quoted 474 493 241
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB.NET
Surrey

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

Guildford VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford VB.NET Salary Histogram

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 76 (100.00%) .NET
2 68 (89.47%) C#
3 66 (86.84%) SQL Server
4 65 (85.53%) ASP.NET
5 47 (61.84%) SQL
6 40 (52.63%) HTML
7 39 (51.32%) JavaScript
8 34 (44.74%) CSS
9 30 (39.47%) T-SQL
10 28 (36.84%) XSLT
10 28 (36.84%) .NET Framework
11 27 (35.53%) jQuery
12 26 (34.21%) SQL Server 2008
13 22 (28.95%) ASP.NET 2.0
14 21 (27.63%) LINQ
14 21 (27.63%) XSL
15 20 (26.32%) Degree
16 19 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
17 18 (23.68%) VB
18 13 (17.11%) Visual Studio
18 13 (17.11%) Agile Software Development
19 11 (14.47%) Web Services
20 9 (11.84%) WCF
20 9 (11.84%) Finance
20 9 (11.84%) Legal
20 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
21 8 (10.53%) Windows
21 8 (10.53%) C++
21 8 (10.53%) Web Development
21 8 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 76 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (85.53%) ASP.NET
3 40 (52.63%) HTML
4 34 (44.74%) CSS
5 28 (36.84%) XSLT
5 28 (36.84%) .NET Framework
6 27 (35.53%) jQuery
7 22 (28.95%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 21 (27.63%) LINQ
8 21 (27.63%) XSL
9 11 (14.47%) Web Services
10 9 (11.84%) WCF
11 6 (7.895%) ASP
11 6 (7.895%) Ajax
12 5 (6.579%) WinForms
13 4 (5.263%) SubSonic
13 4 (5.263%) HTML5
13 4 (5.263%) CSS3
14 3 (3.947%) WPF
15 2 (2.632%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.947%) DotNetNuke
2 2 (2.632%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (9.211%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.316%) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (1.316%) Intranet
2 1 (1.316%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (86.84%) SQL Server
2 26 (34.21%) SQL Server 2008
3 19 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (7.895%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.316%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.316%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Visual Studio
2 8 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (7.895%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (5.263%) NUnit
4 4 (5.263%) Rhino Mocks
4 4 (5.263%) PhoneGap
5 1 (1.316%) Subversion
General
1 9 (11.84%) Finance
1 9 (11.84%) Legal
2 4 (5.263%) Retail
3 3 (3.947%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.316%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.316%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (85.53%) Developer
2 52 (68.42%) .NET Developer
3 13 (17.11%) C# Developer
4 12 (15.79%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Senior Developer
6 10 (13.16%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (11.84%) Junior Developer
7 9 (11.84%) Junior
8 8 (10.53%) VB.NET Developer
9 7 (9.211%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (9.211%) Junior .NET Developer
9 7 (9.211%) Graduate Developer
9 7 (9.211%) Graduate
10 6 (7.895%) Team Leader
10 6 (7.895%) .NET Team Leader
10 6 (7.895%) Web Team Leader
10 6 (7.895%) Graduate .NET Developer
11 4 (5.263%) Web Developer
11 4 (5.263%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.895%) N-Tier
2 5 (6.579%) iPhone
3 4 (5.263%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.632%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.316%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.316%) Physics
5 1 (1.316%) Replication
5 1 (1.316%) Clustering
5 1 (1.316%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (6.579%) Android
3 2 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.316%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.11%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (10.53%) Web Development
4 6 (7.895%) OO
5 5 (6.579%) MVC
5 5 (6.579%) OOD
6 4 (5.263%) Performance Management
7 3 (3.947%) Product Management
7 3 (3.947%) Data Analysis
8 2 (2.632%) Data Security
8 2 (2.632%) Scrum
8 2 (2.632%) TDD
8 2 (2.632%) Waterfall
9 1 (1.316%) Data Transformation
9 1 (1.316%) Time Management
9 1 (1.316%) Unit Testing
9 1 (1.316%) Test Scripting
9 1 (1.316%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (1.316%) Multithreading
9 1 (1.316%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (89.47%) C#
2 47 (61.84%) SQL
3 39 (51.32%) JavaScript
4 30 (39.47%) T-SQL
5 18 (23.68%) VB
6 8 (10.53%) C++
7 7 (9.211%) Java
8 5 (6.579%) C
9 3 (3.947%) VB6
9 3 (3.947%) VC++
10 1 (1.316%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Degree
2 1 (1.316%) MCPD
2 1 (1.316%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.316%) QA
1 1 (1.316%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.316%) ISO 9000
Vendors
1 2 (2.632%) Oracle
1 2 (2.632%) Cisco
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C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS I have 2 fantastic opportunities in Guildford to join a well know company with a fantastic career progression structure...
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Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
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Salary: From £30,000 to £65,000 per annum
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