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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 42 50 39
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Permanent jobs citing VB 8 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norwich 2.500% 0.483% 2.049%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.252% 0.787% 3.268%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
Average salary £27,500 £32,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.06% +28.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Norwich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
246 254 153
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norwich 76.88% 61.35% 62.70%
Number of salaries quoted 230 229 120
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £28,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Norfolk

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

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

Norwich VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norwich 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 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) OO
2 6 (54.55%) N-Tier
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) T-SQL
2 6 (54.55%) jQuery
2 6 (54.55%) Web Development
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Framework
3 5 (45.45%) MCTS
3 5 (45.45%) WCF
3 5 (45.45%) WPF
3 5 (45.45%) MVC
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) WinForms
3 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) NUnit
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Kanban
3 5 (45.45%) Spring.NET
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norwich 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) jQuery
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Framework
3 5 (45.45%) WCF
3 5 (45.45%) WPF
3 5 (45.45%) WinForms
3 5 (45.45%) Spring.NET
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
3 5 (45.45%) Ninject
3 5 (45.45%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (45.45%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
2 5 (45.45%) NUnit
2 5 (45.45%) MSTest
2 5 (45.45%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (45.45%) Moq
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) VB.NET Programmer
1 6 (54.55%) Programmer
1 6 (54.55%) .NET Programmer
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) N-Tier
2 5 (45.45%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) OO
1 6 (54.55%) Web Development
2 5 (45.45%) MVC
2 5 (45.45%) Scrum
2 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (45.45%) TDD
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (45.45%) Kanban
2 5 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (45.45%) MVVM
2 5 (45.45%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) MCTS
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (45.45%) MCP
1 5 (45.45%) MCAD
1 5 (45.45%) MCSD
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft