The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 31 31 40
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Permanent jobs citing VB 5 9 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 2.994% 4.787% 1.744%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.762% 6.429% 2.308%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 3
Average salary £40,000 £52,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.80% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Kingston Upon Thames
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
105 140 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 62.87% 74.47% 75.58%
Number of salaries quoted 97 139 130
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £42,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
London

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 8 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) VB6
5 2 (16.67%) ASP
5 2 (16.67%) C++
5 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Windows
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Umbraco
6 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (8.333%) ETL
6 1 (8.333%) CSS
6 1 (8.333%) XML
6 1 (8.333%) XSLT
6 1 (8.333%) DHTML
6 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
6 1 (8.333%) Ajax
6 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
6 1 (8.333%) XPath
6 1 (8.333%) Syncfusion
6 1 (8.333%) jQuery

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (16.67%) ASP
3 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (8.333%) CSS
3 1 (8.333%) XML
3 1 (8.333%) XSLT
3 1 (8.333%) DHTML
3 1 (8.333%) Ajax
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (83.33%) .NET Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Web Developer
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 7 (58.33%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Programmer
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (8.333%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (8.333%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
6 1 (8.333%) VB.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL
1 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (8.333%) ETL
2 1 (8.333%) Content Management
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 8 (66.67%) T-SQL
4 4 (33.33%) VB6
5 2 (16.67%) C++
5 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
6 1 (8.333%) XPath
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Syncfusion