Merseyside VB6 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Avon Banchory Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough 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 Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Pewsey Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Truro Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	50
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	34
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	6.061 %	6.814 %
Salaries quoted	29	30
Average minimum salary	£29,629	£29,833
Average salary	£30,903	£31,250
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
Average maximum salary	£32,177	£32,667
UK excluding London average salary	£32,801	£33,140
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Programming Languages Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	528	499
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.292 %	0.209 %
Salaries quoted	448	429
Average minimum salary	£28,781	£28,460
Average salary	£31,085	£30,761
% change on same period last year	+1.05 %
Average maximum salary	£33,389	£33,062
UK excluding London average salary	£35,272	£35,655
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
VB6 North West

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Salary Trend

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

VB6
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+10	22	£28,895	-7.53 %
St Helens	-	2	£31,000	-
Wirral	-	1	£35,000	-

VB6 North West

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 72 (100.00 %) VB 2 64 (88.89 %) .NET 3 59 (81.94 %) SQL Server 4 52 (72.22 %) VB.NET 5 30 (41.67 %) SQL 6 24 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 7 18 (25.00 %) Finance 8 14 (19.44 %) SQL Server 2005 8 14 (19.44 %) C# 9 12 (16.67 %) VBScript 9 12 (16.67 %) ASP 10 11 (15.28 %) Crystal Reports 10 11 (15.28 %) SQL Server 2000 10 11 (15.28 %) Client/Server 11 10 (13.89 %) UNIX

11 10 (13.89 %) Datawarehouse 11 10 (13.89 %) HTML 12 9 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 12 9 (12.50 %) XML 12 9 (12.50 %) Intranet 12 9 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 12 9 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 7 (9.722 %) WebServices 13 7 (9.722 %) Business Analysis 13 7 (9.722 %) Migration 14 6 (8.333 %) N-Tier 14 6 (8.333 %) JavaScript 15 5 (6.944 %) Visual Studio 15 5 (6.944 %) PRINCE2 15 5 (6.944 %) PRINCE

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 64 (88.89 %) .NET 2 24 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (16.67 %) ASP 4 10 (13.89 %) HTML 5 9 (12.50 %) XML 6 7 (9.722 %) WebServices 7 4 (5.556 %) XSLT 7 4 (5.556 %) COM+ 7 4 (5.556 %) CSS 8 3 (4.167 %) ODBC 8 3 (4.167 %) AJAX 9 2 (2.778 %) Ruby on Rails 9 2 (2.778 %) WCF 9 2 (2.778 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 2 (2.778 %) XHTML 9 2 (2.778 %) SOAP 9 2 (2.778 %) ADO.NET 10 1 (1.389 %) WinForms 10 1 (1.389 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.778 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 9 (12.50 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 59 (81.94 %) SQL Server 2 14 (19.44 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (15.28 %) SQL Server 2000 3 11 (15.28 %) Crystal Reports 4 10 (13.89 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (6.944 %) DTS 6 4 (5.556 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (2.778 %) MySQL 8 2 (2.778 %) ETL 8 2 (2.778 %) RDBMS 8 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 10g 8 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 9i 9 1 (1.389 %) OLAP 9 1 (1.389 %) BusinessObjects 9 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 5 (6.944 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.778 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.389 %) NUnit	General 1 18 (25.00 %) Finance 2 9 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 3 4 (5.556 %) Legal 4 3 (4.167 %) Pensions 5 2 (2.778 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.778 %) Health 6 1 (1.389 %) Law 6 1 (1.389 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 52 (72.22 %) Developer 2 23 (31.94 %) .NET Developer 3 20 (27.78 %) Programmer 4 19 (26.39 %) Analyst 4 19 (26.39 %) Analyst Programmer 5 15 (20.83 %) VB Developer 6 13 (18.06 %) VB.NET Developer 7 9 (12.50 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 7 9 (12.50 %) .NET Programmer 8 8 (11.11 %) VB6 Developer 8 8 (11.11 %) Analyst Developer 8 8 (11.11 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 8 (11.11 %) Software Developer 9 7 (9.722 %) Web Developer 9 7 (9.722 %) .NET Web Developer 9 7 (9.722 %) SQL Developer 10 4 (5.556 %) Server Analyst 10 4 (5.556 %) VB Analyst Programmer 10 4 (5.556 %) VB6 Analyst Programmer 10 4 (5.556 %) C# Developer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (15.28 %) Client/Server 2 6 (8.333 %) N-Tier 3 2 (2.778 %) Management Information System 3 2 (2.778 %) Pocket PC 4 1 (1.389 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 10 (13.89 %) UNIX 2 2 (2.778 %) Windows 2 2 (2.778 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 7 (9.722 %) Business Analysis 2 7 (9.722 %) Migration 3 5 (6.944 %) PRINCE 3 5 (6.944 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (4.167 %) OOP 4 3 (4.167 %) OO 4 3 (4.167 %) Project Management 5 2 (2.778 %) Data Migration 5 2 (2.778 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (1.389 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (1.389 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (1.389 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (1.389 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 72 (100.00 %) VB 2 52 (72.22 %) VB.NET 3 30 (41.67 %) SQL 4 14 (19.44 %) C# 5 12 (16.67 %) VBScript 6 9 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 7 6 (8.333 %) JavaScript 8 4 (5.556 %) C++ 8 4 (5.556 %) DHTML 9 2 (2.778 %) Java 9 2 (2.778 %) Perl 9 2 (2.778 %) PHP 9 2 (2.778 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (2.778 %) C 9 2 (2.778 %) Python 9 2 (2.778 %) Ruby 10 1 (1.389 %) Shell Script 10 1 (1.389 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 4 (5.556 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (5.556 %) Degree 2 2 (2.778 %) MCP 2 2 (2.778 %) MCSD 2 2 (2.778 %) HNC
Vendors 1 4 (5.556 %) Cognos 2 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.389 %) Business Objects