The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 51 57 45
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -12
Permanent jobs citing VB 32 30 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 3.354% 3.371% 4.167%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.926% 5.300% 7.708%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 32
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +28.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £25,000 £20,250
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,000 £34,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
North Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
462 566 506
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 48.43% 63.60% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 343 472 448
Average salary £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £26,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Yorkshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Skipton -3 13 £32,500 +18.18% 1
York +5 12 £35,000 +9.37% 1
Harrogate +1 8 £19,750 -50.00%
Knaresborough - 1 £20,000 -
VB
Yorkshire

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 58 (71.60%) SQL Server
2 52 (64.20%) SQL
3 42 (51.85%) .NET
4 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
5 29 (35.80%) ASP.NET
6 24 (29.63%) Finance
7 23 (28.40%) Cognos
7 23 (28.40%) Cognos Impromptu
7 23 (28.40%) NorthgateArinso
8 22 (27.16%) C#
9 20 (24.69%) Twitter
10 18 (22.22%) OO
11 16 (19.75%) VB.NET
12 14 (17.28%) Agile Software Development
12 14 (17.28%) WinForms
13 12 (14.81%) Oracle
14 10 (12.35%) TDD
15 9 (11.11%) MVC
15 9 (11.11%) Visual Studio
16 8 (9.877%) COBOL
16 8 (9.877%) Mainframe
16 8 (9.877%) HP
16 8 (9.877%) MS Excel
16 8 (9.877%) ATM
16 8 (9.877%) TCP/IP
16 8 (9.877%) VB6
16 8 (9.877%) NonStop SQL
16 8 (9.877%) WCF
16 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET MVC 4
16 8 (9.877%) Enterprise Software

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 42 (51.85%) .NET
2 29 (35.80%) ASP.NET
3 14 (17.28%) WinForms
4 8 (9.877%) WCF
4 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (8.642%) Node.js
5 7 (8.642%) Ninject
5 7 (8.642%) KnockoutJS
6 6 (7.407%) jQuery
7 5 (6.173%) HTML
7 5 (6.173%) CSS
8 3 (3.704%) Silverlight
8 3 (3.704%) JSON
8 3 (3.704%) XML
9 2 (2.469%) ASP.NET 2.0
9 2 (2.469%) XSLT
9 2 (2.469%) Flash
9 2 (2.469%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.235%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.704%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (3.704%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (9.877%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.938%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.469%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.235%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.235%) InDesign
4 1 (1.235%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 6 (7.407%) BASE24
2 3 (3.704%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.877%) ATM
1 8 (9.877%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.235%) Firewall
2 1 (1.235%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (71.60%) SQL Server
2 23 (28.40%) Cognos Impromptu
3 8 (9.877%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (4.938%) MS Access
4 4 (4.938%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.469%) MySQL
7 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.235%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.235%) DTS
7 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.235%) JIRA
2 1 (1.235%) Dreamweaver
General
1 24 (29.63%) Finance
2 1 (1.235%) Retail
2 1 (1.235%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 71 (87.65%) Developer
2 28 (34.57%) .NET Developer
3 23 (28.40%) Analyst
4 21 (25.93%) Systems Developer
5 20 (24.69%) VB Developer
6 18 (22.22%) Analyst Developer
6 18 (22.22%) Systems Analyst
7 15 (18.52%) ASP.NET Developer
8 10 (12.35%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.407%) VB6 Developer
10 5 (6.173%) C# Developer
10 5 (6.173%) VB.NET Developer
10 5 (6.173%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (6.173%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (4.938%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.938%) MI Analyst
12 2 (2.469%) .NET Software Developer
12 2 (2.469%) Software Developer
13 1 (1.235%) Senior Tester
13 1 (1.235%) Senior QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.877%) Mainframe
1 8 (9.877%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.642%) Streaming Music
3 4 (4.938%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.704%) EMV
4 3 (3.704%) Chip and PIN
5 2 (2.469%) Social Media
6 1 (1.235%) PKI
6 1 (1.235%) Replication
6 1 (1.235%) Clustering
6 1 (1.235%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.407%) Windows
2 2 (2.469%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.22%) OO
2 14 (17.28%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (12.35%) TDD
4 9 (11.11%) MVC
5 7 (8.642%) Dependency Injection
5 7 (8.642%) Domain-Driven Design
5 7 (8.642%) Web Application Development
6 6 (7.407%) Project Planning
7 5 (6.173%) Change Management
8 4 (4.938%) RUP
8 4 (4.938%) OOA/OOD
8 4 (4.938%) ITIL
8 4 (4.938%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (3.704%) Scrum
9 3 (3.704%) Project Management
9 3 (3.704%) CRM
9 3 (3.704%) PRINCE2
9 3 (3.704%) Test Automation
10 2 (2.469%) Waterfall
10 2 (2.469%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 52 (64.20%) SQL
2 22 (27.16%) C#
3 16 (19.75%) VB.NET
4 8 (9.877%) COBOL
4 8 (9.877%) VB6
5 6 (7.407%) C++
5 6 (7.407%) Java
5 6 (7.407%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.173%) VBScript
7 3 (3.704%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.704%) PHP
8 2 (2.469%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.235%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (8.642%) MCTS
1 7 (8.642%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (8.642%) MCP
1 7 (8.642%) MCAD
1 7 (8.642%) MCSD
2 3 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.469%) Degree
4 1 (1.235%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.938%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.235%) QA
2 1 (1.235%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.235%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.235%) SCCM
1 1 (1.235%) SCOM
1 1 (1.235%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (28.40%) Cognos
2 23 (28.40%) NorthgateArinso
3 20 (24.69%) Twitter
4 12 (14.81%) Oracle
5 8 (9.877%) HP
6 1 (1.235%) Google
6 1 (1.235%) Kofax
6 1 (1.235%) Adobe
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