Portsmouth VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Portsmouth 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.NET over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carnforth Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Cradley Heath Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Ringwood Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Seaford Selby Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	7
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	78
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	13.24 %	34.21 %
Salaries quoted	27	68
Average minimum salary	£31,815	£29,721
Average salary	£35,907	£32,897
% change on same period last year	+9.15 %
Average maximum salary	£40,000	£36,074
UK excluding London average salary	£32,996	£33,012
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Programming Languages Portsmouth
Matching permanent IT job ads	219	228
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.118 %	0.095 %
Salaries quoted	192	174
Average minimum salary	£33,145	£29,406
Average salary	£36,762	£32,837
% change on same period last year	+11.95 %
Average maximum salary	£40,379	£36,269
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
VB.NET Hampshire

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 115 (100.00 %) .NET 2 85 (73.91 %) ASP.NET 3 81 (70.43 %) C# 4 46 (40.00 %) JavaScript 5 44 (38.26 %) SQL Server 6 29 (25.22 %) Legal 6 29 (25.22 %) Internet 7 28 (24.35 %) Extranet 7 28 (24.35 %) Intranet 8 23 (20.00 %) XML 9 21 (18.26 %) Web Development 10 20 (17.39 %) AquaLogic 10 20 (17.39 %) BEA 11 18 (15.65 %) Visual Studio 11 18 (15.65 %) VB

12 16 (13.91 %) MS Office 12 16 (13.91 %) Microsoft 13 15 (13.04 %) SQL Server 2000 13 15 (13.04 %) Plumtree 13 15 (13.04 %) SQL 13 15 (13.04 %) VB6 14 14 (12.17 %) SQL Server 2005 14 14 (12.17 %) Law 15 12 (10.43 %) Content Management 16 11 (9.565 %) MS Excel 17 10 (8.696 %) OO 17 10 (8.696 %) CSS 17 10 (8.696 %) SEO 17 10 (8.696 %) E-Commerce 18 9 (7.826 %) AJAX

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 115 (100.00 %) .NET 2 85 (73.91 %) ASP.NET 3 23 (20.00 %) XML 4 10 (8.696 %) CSS 5 9 (7.826 %) HTML 5 9 (7.826 %) AJAX 6 6 (5.217 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (5.217 %) XSLT 7 5 (4.348 %) ASP 8 4 (3.478 %) WinForms 9 1 (0.870 %) ADO.NET 9 1 (0.870 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 9 (7.826 %) CMS 2 2 (1.739 %) SharePoint 2 2 (1.739 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 16 (13.91 %) MS Office 2 11 (9.565 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 29 (25.22 %) Internet 2 28 (24.35 %) Extranet 2 28 (24.35 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.870 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (38.26 %) SQL Server 2 15 (13.04 %) SQL Server 2000 3 14 (12.17 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (2.609 %) SQL Server 2008 5 2 (1.739 %) RDBMS 6 1 (0.870 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (0.870 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 18 (15.65 %) Visual Studio
General 1 29 (25.22 %) Legal 2 14 (12.17 %) Law 3 6 (5.217 %) Health 4 3 (2.609 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.870 %) Marketing 5 1 (0.870 %) Games	Job Titles 1 106 (92.17 %) Developer 2 56 (48.70 %) .NET Developer 3 36 (31.30 %) Web Developer 4 30 (26.09 %) VB.NET Developer 5 28 (24.35 %) Applications Developer 6 18 (15.65 %) C# Developer 7 10 (8.696 %) .NET Web Developer 8 8 (6.957 %) .NET Applications Developer 9 7 (6.087 %) Senior .NET Developer 9 7 (6.087 %) Programmer 9 7 (6.087 %) Senior Developer 10 6 (5.217 %) Senior VB.NET Developer 10 6 (5.217 %) Junior VB.NET Developer 11 5 (4.348 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 5 (4.348 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 4 (3.478 %) Analyst Programmer 12 4 (3.478 %) Analyst 12 4 (3.478 %) C# Web Developer 12 4 (3.478 %) C# Application Developer 13 2 (1.739 %) VB Developer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.217 %) NHS 1 6 (5.217 %) Data Integration 2 1 (0.870 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 3 (2.609 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (18.26 %) Web Development 2 12 (10.43 %) Content Management 3 10 (8.696 %) SEO 3 10 (8.696 %) OO 3 10 (8.696 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (3.478 %) RUP 4 4 (3.478 %) Unified Process 5 3 (2.609 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (0.870 %) Workflow 6 1 (0.870 %) Migration 6 1 (0.870 %) CRM 6 1 (0.870 %) Service Management 6 1 (0.870 %) Search Engine Marketing 6 1 (0.870 %) Internet Marketing 6 1 (0.870 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 81 (70.43 %) C# 2 46 (40.00 %) JavaScript 3 18 (15.65 %) VB 4 15 (13.04 %) VB6 4 15 (13.04 %) SQL 5 6 (5.217 %) Java 6 2 (1.739 %) C++ 7 1 (0.870 %) C 7 1 (0.870 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.870 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 5 (4.348 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (1.739 %) MCSD 3 1 (0.870 %) Degree 3 1 (0.870 %) MCP 3 1 (0.870 %) MCAD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.348 %) HL7 2 3 (2.609 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 20 (17.39 %) AquaLogic 2 1 (0.870 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 6 (5.217 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 20 (17.39 %) BEA 2 16 (13.91 %) Microsoft 3 15 (13.04 %) Plumtree 4 7 (6.087 %) Oracle