The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 17 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 51 33 50
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +17
Permanent jobs citing VB 3 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 0.958% 3.557% 0.673%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.515% 6.338% 0.985%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 2
Average salary £32,500 £33,750 £22,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.70% +51.68%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
198 142 203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 63.26% 56.13% 68.35%
Number of salaries quoted 192 131 189
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £44,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Suffolk

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) C#
2 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) UNIX
4 4 (28.57%) Replication
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 4 (28.57%) EMC
4 4 (28.57%) SAN
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
4 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 4 (28.57%) Perl
4 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) CSS
6 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) Workflow
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) T-SQL

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) HTML
2 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) WSH
3 2 (14.29%) Ajax
3 2 (14.29%) Silverlight
3 2 (14.29%) LINQ
3 2 (14.29%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) VB.NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (7.143%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 4 (28.57%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) UNIX
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 2 (14.29%) Workflow
2 2 (14.29%) Workflow Management
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.143%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
3 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) ISEB
2 1 (7.143%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco
1 4 (28.57%) EMC
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
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