Maidstone VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Maidstone 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 29 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 Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guernsey Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverclyde Ipswich 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 Maldon 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 Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough 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 Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge 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 Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	15
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	15.83 %
Salaries quoted	0	16
Average minimum salary	-	£33,688
Average salary	-	£35,344
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£37,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,784	£33,561
% change on same period last year	-2.31 %
Programming Languages Maidstone
Matching permanent IT job ads	61	120
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.050 %
Salaries quoted	55	100
Average minimum salary	£25,762	£28,793
Average salary	£28,693	£30,903
% change on same period last year	-7.15 %
Average maximum salary	£31,624	£33,013
UK excluding London average salary	£35,257	£35,638
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 7 (87.50 %) .NET 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 1 7 (87.50 %) XML 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2005 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 5 (62.50 %) VB.NET 3 4 (50.00 %) VB6 4 3 (37.50 %) TDD 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) Scrum 4 3 (37.50 %) Extreme Programming 4 3 (37.50 %) MCP 4 3 (37.50 %) MCAD 4 3 (37.50 %) MCSD

4 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 4 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (25.00 %) Insurance 5 2 (25.00 %) HTML 5 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 5 2 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (25.00 %) CSS 5 2 (25.00 %) Degree 6 1 (12.50 %) Logistics 6 1 (12.50 %) VBA 6 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 7 (87.50 %) .NET 1 7 (87.50 %) XML 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (25.00 %) CSS 3 2 (25.00 %) HTML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2005 2 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) VB Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Scrum 1 3 (37.50 %) Extreme Programming 1 3 (37.50 %) TDD 2 1 (12.50 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) VB.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) VB6 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 5 1 (12.50 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) MCP 1 3 (37.50 %) MCAD 1 3 (37.50 %) MCSD 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (25.00 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft