The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 17 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 27 72 68
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -4
Permanent jobs citing VB6 29 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 6.502% 1.484% 0.858%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.70% 2.392% 1.594%
Number of salaries quoted 24 10 4
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
UK excluding London average salary £35,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.42% +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
271 418 251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 60.76% 62.02% 53.86%
Number of salaries quoted 233 373 202
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB6
North West

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Merseyside VB6 Jobs Demand Trend

VB6
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Merseyside VB6 Salary Histogram

VB6
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +37 27 £30,000 -
VB6
North West

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 40 (100.00%) .NET
1 40 (100.00%) VB
2 32 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 27 (67.50%) ASP.NET
4 25 (62.50%) SQL
5 24 (60.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
7 20 (50.00%) N-Tier
7 20 (50.00%) C#
7 20 (50.00%) VB.NET
8 18 (45.00%) .NET Framework
9 17 (42.50%) Telerik
10 16 (40.00%) OO
11 14 (35.00%) Windows
12 12 (30.00%) Test Scripting
13 11 (27.50%) Degree
13 11 (27.50%) Computer Science
13 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2008
14 10 (25.00%) Mobile App
14 10 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
15 9 (22.50%) Web Services
16 8 (20.00%) LINQ
17 7 (17.50%) Multithreading
17 7 (17.50%) jQuery
17 7 (17.50%) Finance
17 7 (17.50%) XML
17 7 (17.50%) CSS
17 7 (17.50%) OOD
17 7 (17.50%) ADO.NET
17 7 (17.50%) ASP

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (67.50%) ASP.NET
3 24 (60.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 18 (45.00%) .NET Framework
5 9 (22.50%) Web Services
6 8 (20.00%) LINQ
7 7 (17.50%) jQuery
7 7 (17.50%) XML
7 7 (17.50%) HTML
7 7 (17.50%) CSS
7 7 (17.50%) ADO.NET
7 7 (17.50%) ASP
8 3 (7.500%) WinForms
9 2 (5.000%) ActiveX
9 2 (5.000%) HTML5
10 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (12.50%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (35.00%) Senior Developer
2 14 (35.00%) .NET Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Software Developer
4 7 (17.50%) VB Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Web Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 7 (17.50%) VB6 Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Systems Developer
6 4 (10.00%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.500%) VB.NET Developer
7 3 (7.500%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (5.000%) .NET Web Developer
8 2 (5.000%) Programmer
8 2 (5.000%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.000%) Software Programmer
9 1 (2.500%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (2.500%) Lead Web Developer
9 1 (2.500%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 11 (27.50%) Computer Science
3 10 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows XP
2 5 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (5.000%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (5.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) OO
2 12 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 7 (17.50%) Multithreading
3 7 (17.50%) OOD
4 5 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 3 (7.500%) Regression Testing
6 2 (5.000%) Web Development
6 2 (5.000%) Integration Testing
7 1 (2.500%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.500%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) VB
2 25 (62.50%) SQL
3 20 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 20 (50.00%) C#
4 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.000%) C
5 2 (5.000%) C++
5 2 (5.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (42.50%) Telerik
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