The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 55 72 43
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -29
Permanent jobs citing VB 27 10 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 3.959% 1.295% 2.612%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.553% 2.066% 4.167%
Number of salaries quoted 25 9 14
Average salary £40,000 £30,500 £28,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.14% +7.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,800 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
412 484 336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 60.41% 62.69% 62.69%
Number of salaries quoted 376 435 306
Average salary £38,000 £33,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
East Midlands

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leicestershire VB Salary Histogram

VB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicester +11 18 £32,500 +6.55%
Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 6 £40,000 - 1
VB
East Midlands

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 61 (85.92%) .NET
2 59 (83.10%) C#
3 48 (67.61%) SQL
4 43 (60.56%) SQL Server
5 33 (46.48%) HTML5
6 32 (45.07%) Java
7 29 (40.85%) XML
7 29 (40.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (35.21%) ASP
8 25 (35.21%) JavaScript
8 25 (35.21%) Microsoft
9 24 (33.80%) VB6
9 24 (33.80%) jQuery
10 21 (29.58%) ASP.NET
11 20 (28.17%) MS Excel
12 18 (25.35%) Web Services
12 18 (25.35%) Windows
12 18 (25.35%) T-SQL
12 18 (25.35%) Ajax
13 17 (23.94%) Retail
13 17 (23.94%) VBScript
13 17 (23.94%) MVC
14 16 (22.54%) WinForms
14 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (21.13%) Data Transformation
15 15 (21.13%) Management Information System
15 15 (21.13%) Project Management
16 14 (19.72%) C++
16 14 (19.72%) DTS
17 13 (18.31%) HTML

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 61 (85.92%) .NET
2 33 (46.48%) HTML5
3 29 (40.85%) XML
4 25 (35.21%) ASP
5 24 (33.80%) jQuery
6 21 (29.58%) ASP.NET
7 18 (25.35%) Web Services
7 18 (25.35%) Ajax
8 16 (22.54%) WinForms
9 13 (18.31%) HTML
10 11 (15.49%) CSS
10 11 (15.49%) WCF
11 6 (8.451%) XHTML
11 6 (8.451%) Flash
12 4 (5.634%) J2EE
12 4 (5.634%) XSLT
12 4 (5.634%) .NET Framework
13 2 (2.817%) WebSphere MQ
13 2 (2.817%) Silverlight
13 2 (2.817%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.49%) Windows Azure
2 4 (5.634%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.225%) MS Exchange
4 2 (2.817%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.408%) Captiva
5 1 (1.408%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 20 (28.17%) MS Excel
2 11 (15.49%) MS Office
3 2 (2.817%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.408%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.817%) SAP Retail
1 2 (2.817%) Retail-J
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.225%) WAN
2 2 (2.817%) LAN
2 2 (2.817%) SAN
2 2 (2.817%) Internet
2 2 (2.817%) Wireless
3 1 (1.408%) Firewall
3 1 (1.408%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.408%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (60.56%) SQL Server
2 29 (40.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (19.72%) DTS
4 10 (14.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (8.451%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (8.451%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (5.634%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (5.634%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (2.817%) OLAP
9 1 (1.408%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (1.408%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (8.451%) Xcode
2 4 (5.634%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.225%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.408%) NUnit
4 1 (1.408%) Moq
4 1 (1.408%) MSTest
4 1 (1.408%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (23.94%) Retail
2 6 (8.451%) Back Office
3 3 (4.225%) Finance
4 2 (2.817%) Marketing
5 1 (1.408%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (38.03%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) .NET Developer
3 15 (21.13%) Project Manager
4 13 (18.31%) C# Developer
4 13 (18.31%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (16.90%) .NET Team Leader
5 12 (16.90%) Team Leader
6 10 (14.08%) Support Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Applications Support
8 8 (11.27%) Applications Support Engineer
8 8 (11.27%) Software Engineer
8 8 (11.27%) Software Developer
8 8 (11.27%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (9.859%) .NET Project Manager
9 7 (9.859%) Software Support Engineer
9 7 (9.859%) Analyst
9 7 (9.859%) Technical Project Manager
9 7 (9.859%) Technical Manager
10 6 (8.451%) Development Project Manager
10 6 (8.451%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.451%) LIMS
3 5 (7.042%) EPoS
4 2 (2.817%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.408%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.408%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.408%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.408%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Windows
2 6 (8.451%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.817%) Windows XP
3 2 (2.817%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (2.817%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.817%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.408%) UNIX
4 1 (1.408%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) MVC
2 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (21.13%) Data Transformation
3 15 (21.13%) Project Management
4 12 (16.90%) Test Scripting
5 10 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (12.68%) Scrum
6 9 (12.68%) Migration
6 9 (12.68%) CRM
7 7 (9.859%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (5.634%) ITIL
8 4 (5.634%) UML
8 4 (5.634%) E-Commerce
9 3 (4.225%) Logistics
10 2 (2.817%) OO
10 2 (2.817%) SEO
10 2 (2.817%) Extreme Programming
10 2 (2.817%) Web Analytics
10 2 (2.817%) Incident Management
10 2 (2.817%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (83.10%) C#
2 48 (67.61%) SQL
3 32 (45.07%) Java
4 25 (35.21%) JavaScript
5 24 (33.80%) VB6
6 18 (25.35%) T-SQL
7 17 (23.94%) VBScript
8 14 (19.72%) C++
9 13 (18.31%) VB.NET
10 7 (9.859%) PHP
10 7 (9.859%) VBA
11 6 (8.451%) ActionScript
11 6 (8.451%) Objective-C
12 5 (7.042%) PL/SQL
13 4 (5.634%) Python
14 2 (2.817%) C
14 2 (2.817%) Perl
15 1 (1.408%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (8.451%) Degree
2 4 (5.634%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.408%) MCSE
3 1 (1.408%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.225%) SLA
2 2 (2.817%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.817%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.817%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.408%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.408%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (2.817%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (2.817%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) Oracle
3 5 (7.042%) Symantec
4 4 (5.634%) Mapinfo
4 4 (5.634%) VMware
5 3 (4.225%) Sophos
6 2 (2.817%) Citrix
6 2 (2.817%) SAP
7 1 (1.408%) Open Text
7 1 (1.408%) Kofax
7 1 (1.408%) BT
7 1 (1.408%) HP
7 1 (1.408%) CA
7 1 (1.408%) Sage
7 1 (1.408%) IBM
Leicestershire, East Midlands
Software Developer/VB.NET/SQL Leicestershire £27-32kGreywood Associates are delighted to be working in association with a highly successful company based in Leicestershire who have an urgent...
greywood
Salary: £27000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leicestershire
Key Skills * Proven commercial development experience with VB.Net /ASP.Net * Knowledgeable with VB6 * Strong database knowledge with SQL * Experience with MVC frameworks desirable * Excellent written and conversational...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £27000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire
3 yrs + of the following - C# ASP.NET... JQuery, HTML and DOM... Commercial use of Javascript, JQuery, ASP, HTML, CSS... IOS Development, phone application development, objective C,XCode...
Blues Point Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + pension, 25 days hol
Posted: 18 June 2013