The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 28 55 40
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -15
Permanent jobs citing VB 34 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norfolk 7.675% 0.415% 2.236%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.942% 0.676% 3.743%
Number of salaries quoted 34 2 5
Average salary £35,000 £32,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% +28.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Norfolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
342 296 187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norfolk 77.20% 61.41% 59.74%
Number of salaries quoted 325 270 151
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +19.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £25,600 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
East of England

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

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

Norfolk VB Salary Histogram

VB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 24 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
Norwich +8 8 £27,500 -14.06%
King's Lynn - 3 £31,000 -
VB
East of England

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 22 (50.00%) C
1 22 (50.00%) .NET
1 22 (50.00%) SCADA
2 21 (47.73%) ASP.NET
3 17 (38.64%) C++
4 15 (34.09%) VB.NET
4 15 (34.09%) C#
4 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
5 14 (31.82%) Visual Studio
5 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
6 13 (29.55%) SQL
6 13 (29.55%) T-SQL
7 12 (27.27%) Windows
7 12 (27.27%) WCF
7 12 (27.27%) Web Application Development
8 9 (20.45%) .NET Framework
9 8 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (18.18%) XML
10 7 (15.91%) XSL
10 7 (15.91%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (15.91%) OO
10 7 (15.91%) EDI
10 7 (15.91%) ERP
10 7 (15.91%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
10 7 (15.91%) Degree
10 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
10 7 (15.91%) QlikView
10 7 (15.91%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (15.91%) DevExpress

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 22 (50.00%) .NET
2 21 (47.73%) ASP.NET
3 12 (27.27%) WCF
4 9 (20.45%) .NET Framework
5 8 (18.18%) XML
6 7 (15.91%) XSL
6 7 (15.91%) EDI
7 6 (13.64%) jQuery
7 6 (13.64%) HTML
7 6 (13.64%) CSS
8 5 (11.36%) WinForms
8 5 (11.36%) WPF
8 5 (11.36%) Spring.NET
8 5 (11.36%) Castle Windsor
8 5 (11.36%) Ninject
8 5 (11.36%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 5 (11.36%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (6.818%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.273%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.91%) Crystal Reports
2 7 (15.91%) QlikView
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Visual Studio
2 7 (15.91%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (11.36%) NUnit
3 5 (11.36%) MSTest
3 5 (11.36%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (11.36%) Moq
Job Titles
1 22 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 16 (36.36%) Developer
3 11 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 8 (18.18%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Graduate
6 6 (13.64%) VB.NET Programmer
6 6 (13.64%) .NET Programmer
6 6 (13.64%) Programmer
7 3 (6.818%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.545%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (50.00%) SCADA
2 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
3 6 (13.64%) N-Tier
4 5 (11.36%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (2.273%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.273%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Web Application Development
2 8 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (15.91%) OO
3 7 (15.91%) ERP
3 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Web Development
4 6 (13.64%) TDD
5 5 (11.36%) MVC
5 5 (11.36%) Scrum
5 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (11.36%) Kanban
5 5 (11.36%) MVVM
5 5 (11.36%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (2.273%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) C
2 17 (38.64%) C++
3 15 (34.09%) VB.NET
3 15 (34.09%) C#
4 13 (29.55%) SQL
4 13 (29.55%) T-SQL
5 7 (15.91%) Bourne shell
6 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.818%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) MCP
2 5 (11.36%) MCAD
2 5 (11.36%) MCSD
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (11.36%) MCTS
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) DevExpress