The first table below looks at the demand for VB6 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 21 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Rank 99 69 70
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +1
Permanent jobs citing VB6 5 18 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.386% 1.748% 2.232%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.691% 4.009% 4.078%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 21
Average salary £50,500 £31,250 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+61.60% -13.19%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
724 449 515
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 55.82% 43.59% 54.73%
Number of salaries quoted 649 402 482
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,600 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,300 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB6
Buckinghamshire

VB6
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes VB6 Salary Trend

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) VB
2 11 (91.67%) C#
3 9 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 9 (75.00%) Web Services
4 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
5 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
6 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (50.00%) Use Case
6 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (50.00%) MVC
6 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
7 5 (41.67%) WinForms
7 5 (41.67%) VC++
7 5 (41.67%) Web Development
8 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (33.33%) NHibernate
8 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
8 4 (33.33%) NUnit
8 4 (33.33%) jQuery
8 4 (33.33%) WCF
8 4 (33.33%) WF
8 4 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (33.33%) Web Application Development
8 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (33.33%) VBA
8 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 4 (33.33%) XML

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (75.00%) Web Services
3 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
4 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 5 (41.67%) WinForms
6 4 (33.33%) NHibernate
6 4 (33.33%) jQuery
6 4 (33.33%) WCF
6 4 (33.33%) WF
6 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (33.33%) XML
7 1 (8.333%) CSS
7 1 (8.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) NUnit
1 4 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Software Developer
4 4 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (8.333%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Lead Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Use Case
1 6 (50.00%) MVC
2 5 (41.67%) Web Development
3 4 (33.33%) Web Application Development
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.333%) Content Management
5 1 (8.333%) SEO
5 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) VB
2 11 (91.67%) C#
3 9 (75.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (41.67%) VC++
5 4 (33.33%) VBA
6 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
7 1 (8.333%) VBScript
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
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