Lancashire VB6 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Avon Banbury Banchory Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kettering Kidlington Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lymm Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rochester Romford Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Towcester Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	28
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	97	47
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	14.67 %	11.35 %
Salaries quoted	68	40
Average minimum salary	£27,202	£26,075
Average salary	£30,119	£27,663
% change on same period last year	+8.88 %
Average maximum salary	£33,036	£29,250
UK excluding London average salary	£33,111	£32,851
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	661	414
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.324 %	0.183 %
Salaries quoted	547	321
Average minimum salary	£28,116	£29,668
Average salary	£30,924	£31,698
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Average maximum salary	£33,732	£33,729
UK excluding London average salary	£35,401	£35,481
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
VB6 North West

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing VB6 across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing VB6 across the Lancashire region.

VB6
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Lancashire region over the past 3 months.

VB6
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Lancashire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Preston	+1	53	£29,978	+15.18 %
2	Blackburn	+5	20	£29,286	-
3	Blackpool	-	8	£32,500	-
4	Lancaster	-	2	£28,500	-
5	Chorley	-	1	£30,000	-

VB6 North West

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 183 (100.00 %) VB 2 160 (87.43 %) SQL Server 3 146 (79.78 %) SQL 4 138 (75.41 %) .NET 5 87 (47.54 %) XML 6 82 (44.81 %) VB.NET 7 74 (40.44 %) ASP.NET 8 70 (38.25 %) ASP 8 70 (38.25 %) JavaScript 8 70 (38.25 %) HTML 9 57 (31.15 %) Transact-SQL 10 47 (25.68 %) Crystal Reports 10 47 (25.68 %) SQL Server 2000 11 44 (24.04 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 29 (15.85 %) Oracle

13 28 (15.30 %) Internet 13 28 (15.30 %) Microsoft 13 28 (15.30 %) AJAX 13 28 (15.30 %) .NET Framework 14 27 (14.75 %) C# 14 27 (14.75 %) WebServices 15 26 (14.21 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 24 (13.11 %) N-Tier 17 22 (12.02 %) Java 17 22 (12.02 %) Sybase 18 18 (9.836 %) SQL Server 2005 18 18 (9.836 %) COM+ 18 18 (9.836 %) CSS 18 18 (9.836 %) Pharmaceutical 19 17 (9.290 %) OO

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 138 (75.41 %) .NET 2 87 (47.54 %) XML 3 74 (40.44 %) ASP.NET 4 70 (38.25 %) HTML 4 70 (38.25 %) ASP 5 28 (15.30 %) AJAX 5 28 (15.30 %) .NET Framework 6 27 (14.75 %) WebServices 7 18 (9.836 %) COM+ 7 18 (9.836 %) CSS 8 14 (7.650 %) WinForms 9 9 (4.918 %) ActiveX 10 7 (3.825 %) COM 10 7 (3.825 %) WPF 11 3 (1.639 %) WCF 12 1 (0.546 %) .NET Remoting 12 1 (0.546 %) XSLT 12 1 (0.546 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 11 (6.011 %) IIS 1 11 (6.011 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.546 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 14 (7.650 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (1.639 %) Applix TM1 1 3 (1.639 %) Line 500
Communications & Networking 1 28 (15.30 %) Internet 2 2 (1.093 %) FTP 2 2 (1.093 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 160 (87.43 %) SQL Server 2 47 (25.68 %) SQL Server 2000 2 47 (25.68 %) Crystal Reports 3 44 (24.04 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 18 (9.836 %) SQL Server 2005 5 10 (5.464 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (1.639 %) DTS 6 3 (1.639 %) SQL Server 7 7 2 (1.093 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (1.093 %) Crystal Enterprise 7 2 (1.093 %) RDBMS 7 2 (1.093 %) BusinessObjects 7 2 (1.093 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 2 (1.093 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 26 (14.21 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 9 (4.918 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (3.825 %) Flash	General 1 18 (9.836 %) Pharmaceutical 2 14 (7.650 %) Pensions 3 12 (6.557 %) Health 4 11 (6.011 %) Finance 5 7 (3.825 %) Retail 6 1 (0.546 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.546 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.546 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 151 (82.51 %) Developer 2 47 (25.68 %) VB Developer 3 29 (15.85 %) Web Developer 4 28 (15.30 %) Software Developer 5 24 (13.11 %) Analyst 5 24 (13.11 %) .NET Developer 6 21 (11.48 %) Programmer 7 19 (10.38 %) Analyst Programmer 8 17 (9.290 %) VB6 Developer 9 16 (8.743 %) C# Developer 10 12 (6.557 %) Systems Developer 11 11 (6.011 %) VB.NET Developer 12 10 (5.464 %) C# Web Developer 13 9 (4.918 %) Developer Analyst 14 8 (4.372 %) ASP.NET Developer 15 7 (3.825 %) SQL Developer 15 7 (3.825 %) .NET Web Developer 15 7 (3.825 %) VB Analyst Programmer 15 7 (3.825 %) Applications Developer 15 7 (3.825 %) C# Application Developer	Miscellaneous 1 24 (13.11 %) N-Tier 2 3 (1.639 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.546 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 10 (5.464 %) Windows 2 1 (0.546 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (0.546 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (9.290 %) OO 2 16 (8.743 %) Data Modelling 3 10 (5.464 %) PRINCE2 4 8 (4.372 %) ERP 4 8 (4.372 %) Systems Analysis 5 7 (3.825 %) OOP 5 7 (3.825 %) CRM 6 6 (3.279 %) UML 6 6 (3.279 %) Project Management 6 6 (3.279 %) Software Testing 6 6 (3.279 %) Unit Testing 7 5 (2.732 %) Resource Management 8 4 (2.186 %) Migration 9 3 (1.639 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (1.639 %) Manual Testing 10 2 (1.093 %) Automated Testing 10 2 (1.093 %) E-Commerce 11 1 (0.546 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 183 (100.00 %) VB 2 146 (79.78 %) SQL 3 82 (44.81 %) VB.NET 4 70 (38.25 %) JavaScript 5 57 (31.15 %) Transact-SQL 6 27 (14.75 %) C# 7 22 (12.02 %) Java 8 10 (5.464 %) VBA 9 7 (3.825 %) XAML 10 2 (1.093 %) DHTML 11 1 (0.546 %) PHP 11 1 (0.546 %) VC++ 11 1 (0.546 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 13 (7.104 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.639 %) QA	System Software 1 7 (3.825 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 29 (15.85 %) Oracle 2 28 (15.30 %) Microsoft 3 22 (12.02 %) Sybase 4 3 (1.639 %) Sage 4 3 (1.639 %) Applix 5 2 (1.093 %) Business Objects