Leicestershire VB6 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Leicestershire 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Avon Banchory Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kettering Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Pewsey Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	45
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	39	39
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	8.211 %	6.555 %
Salaries quoted	34	38
Average minimum salary	£27,417	£28,355
Average salary	£29,875	£31,500
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Average maximum salary	£32,333	£34,645
UK excluding London average salary	£32,800	£33,095
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Programming Languages Leicestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	475	595
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.259 %	0.250 %
Salaries quoted	440	456
Average minimum salary	£28,459	£29,489
Average salary	£30,869	£31,484
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Average maximum salary	£33,278	£33,479
UK excluding London average salary	£35,257	£35,638
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
VB6 East Midlands

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Leicestershire 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 citing VB6 across the Leicestershire region.

VB6
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Leicester	+6	27	£30,920	+4.90 %
Lutterworth	+1	4	£25,375	-7.72 %
Loughborough	-	2	£28,000	-

VB6 East Midlands

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Leicestershire region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 75 (100.00 %) VB 2 72 (96.00 %) .NET 3 54 (72.00 %) VB.NET 4 50 (66.67 %) SQL Server 5 33 (44.00 %) Oracle 6 32 (42.67 %) Windows 6 32 (42.67 %) DB2 7 24 (32.00 %) C# 8 20 (26.67 %) Informix 9 19 (25.33 %) XML 10 17 (22.67 %) Pensions 11 16 (21.33 %) ASP.NET 12 11 (14.67 %) SQL 12 11 (14.67 %) SQL Server 2000 12 11 (14.67 %) SQL Server 2005

13 9 (12.00 %) WinForms 13 9 (12.00 %) Health 14 8 (10.67 %) Microsoft 15 7 (9.333 %) Retail 16 6 (8.000 %) Finance 16 6 (8.000 %) Pharmaceutical 16 6 (8.000 %) Banking 16 6 (8.000 %) Web Development 17 5 (6.667 %) E-Commerce 17 5 (6.667 %) MS Excel 17 5 (6.667 %) PHP 17 5 (6.667 %) HTML 17 5 (6.667 %) COM 17 5 (6.667 %) OOP 18 4 (5.333 %) OO

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Leicestershire region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 72 (96.00 %) .NET 2 19 (25.33 %) XML 3 16 (21.33 %) ASP.NET 4 9 (12.00 %) WinForms 5 5 (6.667 %) COM 5 5 (6.667 %) HTML 6 4 (5.333 %) CSS 7 3 (4.000 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (4.000 %) DOM 8 2 (2.667 %) WCF 8 2 (2.667 %) WebServices 8 2 (2.667 %) ASP 9 1 (1.333 %) JSP 9 1 (1.333 %) AJAX 9 1 (1.333 %) ActiveX 9 1 (1.333 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.333 %) Apache 2 2 (2.667 %) CMS 3 1 (1.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.333 %) BPCS 1 1 (1.333 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.000 %) HTTP 1 3 (4.000 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 32 (42.67 %) DB2 3 20 (26.67 %) Informix 4 11 (14.67 %) SQL Server 2000 4 11 (14.67 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (4.000 %) RDBMS 6 2 (2.667 %) MySQL 6 2 (2.667 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (1.333 %) OLAP 7 1 (1.333 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 3 (4.000 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.667 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.333 %) Flash 3 1 (1.333 %) Synon	General 1 17 (22.67 %) Pensions 2 9 (12.00 %) Health 3 7 (9.333 %) Retail 4 6 (8.000 %) Finance 4 6 (8.000 %) Banking 4 6 (8.000 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (2.667 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (2.667 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 52 (69.33 %) Developer 2 27 (36.00 %) .NET Developer 3 21 (28.00 %) Analyst 4 20 (26.67 %) Analyst Programmer 4 20 (26.67 %) Programmer 5 17 (22.67 %) VB.NET Developer 6 16 (21.33 %) C# Developer 7 11 (14.67 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 7 11 (14.67 %) Senior Analyst 7 11 (14.67 %) Senior Programmer 8 10 (13.33 %) Software Developer 9 8 (10.67 %) VB Developer 10 7 (9.333 %) Senior Developer 11 6 (8.000 %) VB6 Developer 12 4 (5.333 %) CSharp Software Developer 13 3 (4.000 %) Senior VB Developer 13 3 (4.000 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 3 (4.000 %) Senior C# Developer 13 3 (4.000 %) Senior VB6 Developer 13 3 (4.000 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.000 %) W3C 2 1 (1.333 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 32 (42.67 %) Windows 2 4 (5.333 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.333 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (8.000 %) Web Development 2 5 (6.667 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (6.667 %) OOP 3 4 (5.333 %) OO 4 3 (4.000 %) UML 5 2 (2.667 %) CRM 5 2 (2.667 %) Asset Management 5 2 (2.667 %) Content Management 6 1 (1.333 %) ERP 6 1 (1.333 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (1.333 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (1.333 %) ERD
Programming Languages 1 75 (100.00 %) VB 2 54 (72.00 %) VB.NET 3 24 (32.00 %) C# 4 11 (14.67 %) SQL 5 5 (6.667 %) PHP 6 4 (5.333 %) Transact-SQL 6 4 (5.333 %) VBA 7 3 (4.000 %) PL/SQL 7 3 (4.000 %) C++ 7 3 (4.000 %) JavaScript 8 2 (2.667 %) VBScript 9 1 (1.333 %) C 9 1 (1.333 %) Delphi 9 1 (1.333 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.333 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.333 %) Degree
Vendors 1 33 (44.00 %) Oracle 2 8 (10.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.333 %) Cognos