The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 48 52 34
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -18
Permanent jobs citing VB 18 6 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 4.865% 1.485% 4.181%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.407% 2.206% 6.522%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 12
Average salary £32,500 £30,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.55% +35.55%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
243 272 184
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 65.68% 67.33% 64.11%
Number of salaries quoted 219 242 161
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Leicestershire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Leicester VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 51 (87.93%) .NET
2 49 (84.48%) C#
3 38 (65.52%) SQL
4 37 (63.79%) SQL Server
5 31 (53.45%) Java
6 27 (46.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 27 (46.55%) HTML5
7 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
8 21 (36.21%) XML
9 19 (32.76%) MS Excel
10 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
10 18 (31.03%) VB6
11 17 (29.31%) Retail
11 17 (29.31%) Ajax
11 17 (29.31%) ASP
11 17 (29.31%) Web Services
11 17 (29.31%) jQuery
12 16 (27.59%) VBScript
12 16 (27.59%) MVC
13 15 (25.86%) Management Information System
13 15 (25.86%) Project Management
13 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (24.14%) DTS
14 14 (24.14%) C++
14 14 (24.14%) Windows
15 12 (20.69%) ASP.NET
15 12 (20.69%) Test Scripting
16 10 (17.24%) Windows Azure
16 10 (17.24%) Oracle
16 10 (17.24%) VB.NET

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 51 (87.93%) .NET
2 27 (46.55%) HTML5
3 21 (36.21%) XML
4 17 (29.31%) Ajax
4 17 (29.31%) ASP
4 17 (29.31%) Web Services
4 17 (29.31%) jQuery
5 12 (20.69%) ASP.NET
6 9 (15.52%) WinForms
6 9 (15.52%) WCF
7 5 (8.621%) XHTML
7 5 (8.621%) HTML
8 4 (6.897%) J2EE
8 4 (6.897%) CSS
9 3 (5.172%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.448%) XSLT
10 2 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 2 (3.448%) Silverlight
11 1 (1.724%) WPF
11 1 (1.724%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 10 (17.24%) Windows Azure
2 3 (5.172%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.448%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.724%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (32.76%) MS Excel
2 9 (15.52%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.448%) Retail-J
1 2 (3.448%) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.448%) LAN
1 2 (3.448%) WAN
1 2 (3.448%) Wireless
2 1 (1.724%) Internet
2 1 (1.724%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (63.79%) SQL Server
2 27 (46.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (24.14%) DTS
4 9 (15.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (6.897%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (6.897%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (6.897%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (6.897%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.724%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (6.897%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.172%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.724%) Moq
3 1 (1.724%) MSTest
3 1 (1.724%) NUnit
3 1 (1.724%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (29.31%) Retail
2 5 (8.621%) Back Office
3 3 (5.172%) Finance
4 1 (1.724%) Marketing
4 1 (1.724%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Project Manager
3 12 (20.69%) Team Leader
3 12 (20.69%) .NET Team Leader
4 9 (15.52%) .NET Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Support Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Applications Support
5 8 (13.79%) Applications Support Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Manager
6 7 (12.07%) Software Support Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Technical Project Manager
6 7 (12.07%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (12.07%) .NET Project Manager
7 6 (10.34%) Development Manager
7 6 (10.34%) Development Project Manager
8 5 (8.621%) Applications Developer
8 5 (8.621%) Analyst
9 4 (6.897%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.621%) EPoS
3 1 (1.724%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.724%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.724%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.724%) Windows 7
2 1 (1.724%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.724%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) MVC
2 15 (25.86%) Project Management
2 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (20.69%) Test Scripting
4 9 (15.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (13.79%) Data Transformation
5 8 (13.79%) Migration
5 8 (13.79%) CRM
6 3 (5.172%) Logistics
6 3 (5.172%) ITIL
6 3 (5.172%) UML
7 2 (3.448%) OO
7 2 (3.448%) Scrum
7 2 (3.448%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.448%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (3.448%) Change Control
8 1 (1.724%) Analytics
8 1 (1.724%) Software Architecture
8 1 (1.724%) Business Analysis
8 1 (1.724%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (84.48%) C#
2 38 (65.52%) SQL
3 31 (53.45%) Java
4 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 18 (31.03%) VB6
5 16 (27.59%) VBScript
6 14 (24.14%) C++
7 10 (17.24%) VB.NET
7 10 (17.24%) T-SQL
8 5 (8.621%) PL/SQL
9 4 (6.897%) Python
10 2 (3.448%) C
11 1 (1.724%) VC++
11 1 (1.724%) Perl
11 1 (1.724%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 4 (6.897%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.448%) SLA
2 1 (1.724%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.724%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.724%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.448%) SCCM
2 1 (1.724%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) Oracle
3 4 (6.897%) Mapinfo
4 3 (5.172%) Symantec
5 2 (3.448%) SAP
5 2 (3.448%) Sophos
5 2 (3.448%) VMware
6 1 (1.724%) Citrix