The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 20 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 14 8 11
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +3
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 15 27 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 12.82% 21.43% 8.696%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.48% 36.49% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15 27 4
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% +31.81%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Programming Languages
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
77 74 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 65.81% 58.73% 60.87%
Number of salaries quoted 73 74 25
Average salary £32,250 £32,500 £22,482
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.76% +44.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £27,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB.NET
Lancashire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston VB.NET Jobs Demand Trend

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

Preston VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (96.43%) SQL Server
3 23 (82.14%) C#
4 22 (78.57%) ASP.NET
5 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
6 19 (67.86%) SQL Server 2005
7 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (42.86%) .NET Framework
7 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
7 12 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
8 11 (39.29%) HTML
8 11 (39.29%) CSS
8 11 (39.29%) WinForms
9 10 (35.71%) T-SQL
10 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
10 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (32.14%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (25.00%) WPF
11 7 (25.00%) Windows
11 7 (25.00%) SQL
11 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
11 7 (25.00%) MVVM
12 6 (21.43%) XML
13 5 (17.86%) OO
13 5 (17.86%) Web Development
13 5 (17.86%) Finance
13 5 (17.86%) XAML
13 5 (17.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 5 (17.86%) SQL Server 2012
14 4 (14.29%) WCF

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (78.57%) ASP.NET
3 12 (42.86%) .NET Framework
4 11 (39.29%) CSS
4 11 (39.29%) HTML
4 11 (39.29%) WinForms
5 7 (25.00%) WPF
6 6 (21.43%) XML
7 5 (17.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (14.29%) WCF
9 3 (10.71%) LINQ
9 3 (10.71%) jQuery
9 3 (10.71%) Ajax
9 3 (10.71%) Web Services
10 2 (7.143%) SOAP
10 2 (7.143%) Spring.NET
10 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (7.143%) Silverlight
10 2 (7.143%) Castle Windsor
10 2 (7.143%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (96.43%) SQL Server
2 19 (67.86%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (7.143%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.571%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (7.143%) NUnit
3 2 (7.143%) MSTest
3 2 (7.143%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (7.143%) Moq
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Developer
2 19 (67.86%) Software Developer
3 10 (35.71%) .NET Developer
4 8 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 8 (28.57%) VB.NET Developer
4 8 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (17.86%) .NET Software Developer
5 5 (17.86%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (10.71%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Analyst
7 2 (7.143%) Analyst Programmer
7 2 (7.143%) Programmer
8 1 (3.571%) IT Manager
8 1 (3.571%) VB Analyst Programmer
8 1 (3.571%) VB6 Analyst Programmer
8 1 (3.571%) VB Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.571%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.571%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) MVVM
2 5 (17.86%) Web Development
2 5 (17.86%) OO
3 2 (7.143%) MVC
3 2 (7.143%) Scrum
3 2 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (7.143%) Kanban
3 2 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (7.143%) TDD
3 2 (7.143%) Web Application Development
4 1 (3.571%) Project Governance
4 1 (3.571%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.571%) Workflow
4 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.571%) Data Security
4 1 (3.571%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 10 (35.71%) T-SQL
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 5 (17.86%) XAML
6 4 (14.29%) VB
7 2 (7.143%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) MCP
1 2 (7.143%) MCAD
1 2 (7.143%) MCSD
1 2 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (7.143%) MCTS
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.571%) Citrix
2 1 (3.571%) Business Objects
2 1 (3.571%) SAP
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