The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Loughborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Loughborough region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank - 12 7
Permanent jobs citing VB 0 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Loughborough - 5.769% 5.882%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 14.29% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 1
Average salary - £37,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +41.50%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Loughborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
32 21 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Loughborough 71.11% 40.38% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 27 19 7
Average salary £32,500 £28,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.03% +7.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,900 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £47,500
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 Loughborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Loughborough 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 Loughborough region.

Loughborough VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Loughborough 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 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) ASP
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (100.00%) VC++
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Loughborough 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (100.00%) VC++
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware