The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Letchworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 17 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 Letchworth region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 22 - 6
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 4 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Letchworth 5.970% - 6.667%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.407% - 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
Average salary £26,750 - £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Letchworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54 12 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Letchworth 80.60% 60.00% 46.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53 10 7
Average salary £28,000 £29,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.44% -35.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £51,250 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Hertfordshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Letchworth 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 Letchworth region.

Letchworth VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Letchworth 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 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Advertising
1 2 (50.00%) LabVIEW
1 2 (50.00%) Signal Processing

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Letchworth 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (50.00%) MATLAB