The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Newbury region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 50 61 43
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -18
Permanent jobs citing VB 5 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 1.449% 0.577% 1.760%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.212% 1.003% 2.643%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 5
Average salary £32,500 £25,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.00% -15.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,750 £23,800 £20,750
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £29,000 £35,046
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Newbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
226 299 227
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 65.51% 57.50% 66.57%
Number of salaries quoted 221 284 201
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,250 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Berkshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Newbury region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Newbury VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) TOAD
3 3 (60.00%) ISEB
3 3 (60.00%) QA
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) .NET
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) RAD
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) VBA
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) TOAD
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Xcelsius
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (20.00%) TestPartner
2 1 (20.00%) QADirector
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (20.00%) RAD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
Newbury, South East
SQL DEVELOPER - BERKSHIRE - £25,000-£30,000SQL / Developer / T-SQL / Stored Procedures / VB / Visual Basics / Excel / ASP-NET / Reporting / Business Objects / Xcelsius / Data Warehouse / RADMy client is looking...
OPUS
Salary: GBP25000 to GBP30000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
Software Developers Knowledge/Experience Essential Requires knowledge ordinarily acquired from a 2.1 degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or other scientific disciplines containing considerable computing...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: To £22,500 + Bonus to 8% + Laptop
Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
To develop and maintain some Manual test scripts in HP QC to supplement the test AUTOMATION scripts. - Mentor other QA staff in the use of HP QTP, test...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013