The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 13 15 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 11 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 13.58% 13.04% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.57% 18.18% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 0
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
All Programming Languages
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
51 33 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 62.96% 71.74% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 50 30 36
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +22.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB.NET
Kent

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

Maidstone VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Maidstone region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Maidstone VB.NET Salary Histogram

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (71.43%) VB
3 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 9 (64.29%) Scrum
3 9 (64.29%) WPF
3 9 (64.29%) MVVM
4 8 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
4 8 (57.14%) Moq
4 8 (57.14%) Castle Windsor
4 8 (57.14%) Ninject
4 8 (57.14%) MCTS
4 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (57.14%) Kanban
4 8 (57.14%) Spring.NET
4 8 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
4 8 (57.14%) Inversion of Control
4 8 (57.14%) MSTest
4 8 (57.14%) SQL Server 2012
4 8 (57.14%) Unity DI Container
4 8 (57.14%) TDD
4 8 (57.14%) NUnit
4 8 (57.14%) WinForms
4 8 (57.14%) MCP
4 8 (57.14%) MCAD
4 8 (57.14%) MCSD
4 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (21.43%) C#
6 2 (14.29%) SQL

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) WPF
3 8 (57.14%) Castle Windsor
3 8 (57.14%) Ninject
3 8 (57.14%) Spring.NET
3 8 (57.14%) Unity DI Container
3 8 (57.14%) WinForms
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.143%) DAO
4 1 (7.143%) HTML
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.143%) CSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (57.14%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.143%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (57.14%) Moq
1 8 (57.14%) MSTest
1 8 (57.14%) NUnit
General
1 1 (7.143%) Retail
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
1 14 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 2 (14.29%) VB.NET Developer
2 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (7.143%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (7.143%) iPad
2 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.143%) Android
2 1 (7.143%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Scrum
1 9 (64.29%) MVVM
2 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (57.14%) Kanban
2 8 (57.14%) Dependency Injection
2 8 (57.14%) TDD
2 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (7.143%) Use Case
4 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
4 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) VB
2 3 (21.43%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) VB6
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) MCTS
1 8 (57.14%) MCP
1 8 (57.14%) MCAD
1 8 (57.14%) MCSD
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (7.143%) Apple
1 1 (7.143%) Microsoft