Peterborough VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Peterborough region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Banchory Barnet Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Dursley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Lymington Lymm Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mirfield Monmouth Monmouthshire New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Ross-on-Wye Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Saltash Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Cross Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Winsford Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	22
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	68	41
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	14.66 %	14.75 %
Salaries quoted	64	32
Average minimum salary	£31,415	£31,344
Average salary	£33,497	£32,984
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Average maximum salary	£35,579	£34,625
UK excluding London average salary	£33,133	£33,055
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Programming Languages Peterborough
Matching permanent IT job ads	464	278
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.228 %	0.123 %
Salaries quoted	372	243
Average minimum salary	£31,651	£29,460
Average salary	£34,038	£31,925
% change on same period last year	+6.61 %
Average maximum salary	£36,426	£34,391
UK excluding London average salary	£35,401	£35,481
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
VB Cambridgeshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing VB across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing VB across the Peterborough region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Peterborough region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing VB also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VB.

1 126 (84.56 %) .NET 2 113 (75.84 %) SQL Server 3 101 (67.79 %) ASP.NET 4 97 (65.10 %) ASP 5 93 (62.42 %) VB.NET 6 74 (49.66 %) XML 7 68 (45.64 %) SQL 8 63 (42.28 %) VB6 9 59 (39.60 %) SQL Server 2000 10 56 (37.58 %) Microsoft 11 53 (35.57 %) C# 11 53 (35.57 %) JavaScript 12 44 (29.53 %) CSS 12 44 (29.53 %) Finance 13 33 (22.15 %) MS Excel

14 30 (20.13 %) Systems Analysis 15 27 (18.12 %) OO 15 27 (18.12 %) HTML 16 23 (15.44 %) Web Development 17 21 (14.09 %) UML 18 20 (13.42 %) XSLT 19 19 (12.75 %) IIS 20 17 (11.41 %) VBScript 20 17 (11.41 %) Delphi 21 15 (10.07 %) Multimedia 22 14 (9.396 %) WebServices 23 13 (8.725 %) Windows 23 13 (8.725 %) AJAX 23 13 (8.725 %) SQL Server 2005 24 12 (8.054 %) InstallShield

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing VB also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 126 (84.56 %) .NET 2 101 (67.79 %) ASP.NET 3 97 (65.10 %) ASP 4 74 (49.66 %) XML 5 44 (29.53 %) CSS 6 27 (18.12 %) HTML 7 20 (13.42 %) XSLT 8 14 (9.396 %) WebServices 9 13 (8.725 %) AJAX 10 7 (4.698 %) .NET Framework 10 7 (4.698 %) CGI 11 6 (4.027 %) ADO.NET 11 6 (4.027 %) COM+ 12 4 (2.685 %) Spring 12 4 (2.685 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 3 (2.013 %) Silverlight 13 3 (2.013 %) XHTML 14 2 (1.342 %) WinForms 14 2 (1.342 %) SOAP 15 1 (0.671 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 19 (12.75 %) IIS 2 6 (4.027 %) SharePoint 3 4 (2.685 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (2.013 %) Commerce Server 5 1 (0.671 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 33 (22.15 %) MS Excel 2 4 (2.685 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 5 (3.356 %) Navision 2 4 (2.685 %) Axapta 3 3 (2.013 %) MFGPRO 4 1 (0.671 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.342 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 113 (75.84 %) SQL Server 2 59 (39.60 %) SQL Server 2000 3 13 (8.725 %) SQL Server 2005 4 8 (5.369 %) DTS 5 7 (4.698 %) SQL Server 7 6 6 (4.027 %) Crystal Reports 7 5 (3.356 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (0.671 %) GIS 8 1 (0.671 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 12 (8.054 %) InstallShield 2 7 (4.698 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (2.013 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 3 (2.013 %) Oracle Forms 3 3 (2.013 %) Subversion	General 1 44 (29.53 %) Finance 2 15 (10.07 %) Multimedia 3 12 (8.054 %) Manufacturing 3 12 (8.054 %) Financial Institution 4 6 (4.027 %) Telecoms 5 5 (3.356 %) Banking 6 4 (2.685 %) Insurance 7 3 (2.013 %) Publishing 7 3 (2.013 %) Automotive 8 2 (1.342 %) Health 8 2 (1.342 %) Online Banking 8 2 (1.342 %) Marketing 9 1 (0.671 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.671 %) Retail 9 1 (0.671 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.671 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 103 (69.13 %) Developer 2 61 (40.94 %) .NET Developer 3 39 (26.17 %) Analyst 4 28 (18.79 %) Programmer 5 26 (17.45 %) Analyst Programmer 6 15 (10.07 %) Delphi Developer 6 15 (10.07 %) .NET Programmer 7 13 (8.725 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 13 (8.725 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 7 13 (8.725 %) Software Developer 8 12 (8.054 %) VB.NET Developer 9 10 (6.711 %) Support Analyst 10 9 (6.040 %) Applications Support 10 9 (6.040 %) C# Developer 11 8 (5.369 %) VB Developer 11 8 (5.369 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 7 (4.698 %) VB.NET Programmer 12 7 (4.698 %) Applications Support Analyst 13 6 (4.027 %) Senior Analyst 13 6 (4.027 %) Senior Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (2.685 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 3 (2.013 %) W3C 3 2 (1.342 %) Computer Science 3 2 (1.342 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.671 %) Data Integration 4 1 (0.671 %) Asset Management 4 1 (0.671 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.671 %) Physics 4 1 (0.671 %) Chemistry
Operating Systems 1 13 (8.725 %) Windows 2 3 (2.013 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (2.013 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (20.13 %) Systems Analysis 2 27 (18.12 %) OO 3 23 (15.44 %) Web Development 4 21 (14.09 %) UML 5 10 (6.711 %) Resource Management 6 6 (4.027 %) CRM 6 6 (4.027 %) ERP 7 4 (2.685 %) OOP 7 4 (2.685 %) Data Analysis 8 3 (2.013 %) Content Management 8 3 (2.013 %) OOD 8 3 (2.013 %) SEO 9 2 (1.342 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (1.342 %) Validation 9 2 (1.342 %) Technical Architecture 9 2 (1.342 %) System Testing 10 1 (0.671 %) Data Migration 10 1 (0.671 %) Requirements Analysis 10 1 (0.671 %) Migration 10 1 (0.671 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 93 (62.42 %) VB.NET 2 68 (45.64 %) SQL 3 63 (42.28 %) VB6 4 53 (35.57 %) C# 4 53 (35.57 %) JavaScript 5 17 (11.41 %) Delphi 5 17 (11.41 %) VBScript 6 9 (6.040 %) C++ 7 7 (4.698 %) PHP 8 6 (4.027 %) Perl 8 6 (4.027 %) Transact-SQL 8 6 (4.027 %) VBA 9 5 (3.356 %) C 10 3 (2.013 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (2.013 %) Embedded C++ 11 2 (1.342 %) Assembly Language 11 2 (1.342 %) X++ 12 1 (0.671 %) DHTML 12 1 (0.671 %) VC++ 12 1 (0.671 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 11 (7.383 %) Degree 2 1 (0.671 %) PhD 2 1 (0.671 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.356 %) SLA 2 3 (2.013 %) WAI 3 1 (0.671 %) ISO9000	Systems Management 1 4 (2.685 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 56 (37.58 %) Microsoft 2 5 (3.356 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.671 %) Cognos 3 1 (0.671 %) Northgate