Luton VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Luton region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Castleford Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Daresbury Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guernsey Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside 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 Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pewsey Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	30
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	31	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	16.49 %	6.767 %
Salaries quoted	21	18
Average minimum salary	£31,857	£29,000
Average salary	£33,167	£31,417
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Average maximum salary	£34,476	£33,833
UK excluding London average salary	£32,840	£33,613
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Programming Languages Luton
Matching permanent IT job ads	188	266
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.111 %
Salaries quoted	143	248
Average minimum salary	£34,268	£33,851
Average salary	£36,375	£37,359
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
Average maximum salary	£38,481	£40,868
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
VB London

VB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Luton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Luton region.

VB
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Luton region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Luton 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 39 (63.93 %) .NET 2 30 (49.18 %) SQL 3 29 (47.54 %) VB.NET 4 28 (45.90 %) VB6 5 27 (44.26 %) SQL Server 6 25 (40.98 %) ASP 6 25 (40.98 %) ASP.NET 7 23 (37.70 %) C# 8 18 (29.51 %) CSS 9 17 (27.87 %) OO 10 16 (26.23 %) VBA 11 15 (24.59 %) XML 11 15 (24.59 %) Scrum 12 14 (22.95 %) Windows 12 14 (22.95 %) Microsoft

13 13 (21.31 %) E-Commerce 13 13 (21.31 %) RAD 13 13 (21.31 %) XHTML 13 13 (21.31 %) W3C 13 13 (21.31 %) XSLT 13 13 (21.31 %) Crystal Reports 13 13 (21.31 %) WAI 14 11 (18.03 %) Oracle 15 10 (16.39 %) OOD 15 10 (16.39 %) Finance 16 9 (14.75 %) GIS 16 9 (14.75 %) Marketing 16 9 (14.75 %) Active Directory 16 9 (14.75 %) Citrix 16 9 (14.75 %) Oracle Reports

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Luton 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 39 (63.93 %) .NET 2 25 (40.98 %) ASP 2 25 (40.98 %) ASP.NET 3 18 (29.51 %) CSS 4 15 (24.59 %) XML 5 13 (21.31 %) XSLT 5 13 (21.31 %) XHTML 6 9 (14.75 %) HTML 7 8 (13.11 %) AJAX 8 6 (9.836 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (4.918 %) WinForms 10 2 (3.279 %) JSP 11 1 (1.639 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.279 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 9 (14.75 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.639 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (3.279 %) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking 1 9 (14.75 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (44.26 %) SQL Server 2 13 (21.31 %) Crystal Reports 3 9 (14.75 %) Oracle Reports 3 9 (14.75 %) GIS 4 8 (13.11 %) SQL Server 2000 5 6 (9.836 %) SQL Server 2005 6 4 (6.557 %) BusinessObjects 7 2 (3.279 %) MS Access 8 1 (1.639 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (1.639 %) Visual Studio	General 1 10 (16.39 %) Finance 2 9 (14.75 %) Marketing 3 6 (9.836 %) Health 4 5 (8.197 %) Pensions 5 4 (6.557 %) Construction 6 2 (3.279 %) Automotive 7 1 (1.639 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (1.639 %) Front Office 7 1 (1.639 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.639 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 39 (63.93 %) Developer 2 28 (45.90 %) .NET Developer 3 14 (22.95 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 12 (19.67 %) Analyst 5 9 (14.75 %) Technical Support 5 9 (14.75 %) Support Engineer 5 9 (14.75 %) Technical Engineer 5 9 (14.75 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 5 (8.197 %) VB.NET Developer 6 5 (8.197 %) ASP Developer 6 5 (8.197 %) JavaScript Developer 7 4 (6.557 %) VB Developer 7 4 (6.557 %) Software Developer 7 4 (6.557 %) Applications Developer 8 3 (4.918 %) Graduate 8 3 (4.918 %) Consultant 8 3 (4.918 %) Analyst Programmer 8 3 (4.918 %) Programmer 8 3 (4.918 %) Developer Analyst 8 3 (4.918 %) .NET Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 13 (21.31 %) W3C 2 1 (1.639 %) Mathematics 2 1 (1.639 %) Physics 2 1 (1.639 %) Chemistry
Operating Systems 1 14 (22.95 %) Windows 2 9 (14.75 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (27.87 %) OO 2 15 (24.59 %) Scrum 3 13 (21.31 %) E-Commerce 3 13 (21.31 %) RAD 4 10 (16.39 %) OOD 5 7 (11.48 %) Web Development 6 6 (9.836 %) Extreme Programming 6 6 (9.836 %) TDD 7 3 (4.918 %) Change Management 8 2 (3.279 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (3.279 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (3.279 %) System Testing 8 2 (3.279 %) Project Management 8 2 (3.279 %) SSADM 8 2 (3.279 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (3.279 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 30 (49.18 %) SQL 2 29 (47.54 %) VB.NET 3 28 (45.90 %) VB6 4 23 (37.70 %) C# 5 16 (26.23 %) VBA 6 9 (14.75 %) COBOL 7 8 (13.11 %) JavaScript 8 3 (4.918 %) C++ 8 3 (4.918 %) C 9 1 (1.639 %) Delphi 9 1 (1.639 %) DHTML 9 1 (1.639 %) PHP 9 1 (1.639 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.639 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (21.31 %) WAI	System Software 1 9 (14.75 %) Active Directory 1 9 (14.75 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 14 (22.95 %) Microsoft 2 11 (18.03 %) Oracle 3 9 (14.75 %) Citrix 4 4 (6.557 %) Business Objects 5 2 (3.279 %) Cognos 5 2 (3.279 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.639 %) Sybase