The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 22 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 Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 12 13 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing VB 12 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 14.63% 16.67% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.08% 22.86% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 0
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
52 35 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 63.41% 72.92% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 51 33 33
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £43,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Kent

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
3 10 (71.43%) VB.NET
4 9 (64.29%) Windows
4 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (64.29%) WinForms
4 9 (64.29%) WPF
4 9 (64.29%) MVVM
5 8 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
5 8 (57.14%) Moq
5 8 (57.14%) Spring.NET
5 8 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
5 8 (57.14%) Inversion of Control
5 8 (57.14%) MSTest
5 8 (57.14%) Castle Windsor
5 8 (57.14%) Ninject
5 8 (57.14%) SQL Server 2012
5 8 (57.14%) Unity DI Container
5 8 (57.14%) MCTS
5 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (57.14%) Kanban
5 8 (57.14%) Scrum
5 8 (57.14%) TDD
5 8 (57.14%) NUnit
5 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (57.14%) MCP
5 8 (57.14%) MCAD
5 8 (57.14%) MCSD
6 5 (35.71%) SQL
7 3 (21.43%) JavaScript

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) WinForms
2 9 (64.29%) WPF
3 8 (57.14%) Spring.NET
3 8 (57.14%) Castle Windsor
3 8 (57.14%) Ninject
3 8 (57.14%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (14.29%) XML
4 2 (14.29%) soapUI
5 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET
5 1 (7.143%) DAO
5 1 (7.143%) MDX
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (57.14%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
3 1 (7.143%) MS Access
3 1 (7.143%) OLAP
3 1 (7.143%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (57.14%) Moq
1 8 (57.14%) MSTest
1 8 (57.14%) NUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) Sahi
General
1 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
1 11 (78.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Software Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.143%) Windows 8
2 1 (7.143%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) MVVM
2 8 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
2 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (57.14%) Kanban
2 8 (57.14%) Scrum
2 8 (57.14%) TDD
3 2 (14.29%) System Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.143%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.143%) Change Management
4 1 (7.143%) Validation
4 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.143%) RUP
4 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) Data Validation
4 1 (7.143%) Use Case
4 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) VB.NET
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) VB6
4 2 (14.29%) Ruby
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) MCTS
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (57.14%) MCP
1 8 (57.14%) MCAD
1 8 (57.14%) MCSD
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Apple
2 1 (7.143%) Business Objects