The first table below looks at the demand for VB.NET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB.NET over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 72 63 32
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -31
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 61 76 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 2.896% 3.364% 5.961%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.791% 6.355% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 61 76 108
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Programming Languages
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
783 1196 937
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 37.18% 52.94% 50.32%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1082 785
Average salary £42,500 £38,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.38% -1.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB.NET
Berkshire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading VB.NET Salary Histogram

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

1 149 (100.00%) .NET
2 127 (85.23%) C#
3 123 (82.55%) ASP.NET
4 97 (65.10%) SQL
5 91 (61.07%) SQL Server
6 43 (28.86%) WCF
7 37 (24.83%) jQuery
8 33 (22.15%) JavaScript
9 32 (21.48%) Microsoft
10 31 (20.81%) Web Services
11 28 (18.79%) CSS
12 26 (17.45%) MS Excel
13 24 (16.11%) Finance
14 23 (15.44%) Ajax
15 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (14.77%) T-SQL
15 22 (14.77%) LINQ
16 21 (14.09%) SQL Server 2005
17 19 (12.75%) Scrum
17 19 (12.75%) MVC
17 19 (12.75%) Visual Studio
18 18 (12.08%) Windows
18 18 (12.08%) WPF
19 17 (11.41%) Degree
19 17 (11.41%) SQL Server 2008
19 17 (11.41%) IIS
19 17 (11.41%) CRM
19 17 (11.41%) WinForms
19 17 (11.41%) TDD
20 16 (10.74%) ASP.NET MVC

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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
1 149 (100.00%) .NET
2 123 (82.55%) ASP.NET
3 43 (28.86%) WCF
4 37 (24.83%) jQuery
5 31 (20.81%) Web Services
6 28 (18.79%) CSS
7 23 (15.44%) Ajax
8 22 (14.77%) LINQ
9 18 (12.08%) WPF
10 17 (11.41%) WinForms
11 16 (10.74%) ASP.NET MVC
12 14 (9.396%) Castle Windsor
12 14 (9.396%) Razor View Engine
12 14 (9.396%) HTML
12 14 (9.396%) XML
13 13 (8.725%) Spring.NET
13 13 (8.725%) Unity DI Container
13 13 (8.725%) Ninject
14 10 (6.711%) Silverlight
15 6 (4.027%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 17 (11.41%) IIS
2 13 (8.725%) SharePoint
3 10 (6.711%) SharePoint 2010
4 9 (6.040%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.342%) CMS
6 1 (0.671%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 26 (17.45%) MS Excel
2 9 (6.040%) InfoPath
3 3 (2.013%) MS Project
4 2 (1.342%) MS Office
4 2 (1.342%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.671%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.671%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.711%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.711%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.685%) Internet
3 2 (1.342%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (61.07%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.09%) SQL Server 2005
3 17 (11.41%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (4.698%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.356%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.685%) MySQL
6 4 (2.685%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.342%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.671%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.671%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.671%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Visual Studio
2 14 (9.396%) NUnit
3 13 (8.725%) MSTest
3 13 (8.725%) Rhino Mocks
3 13 (8.725%) Moq
4 3 (2.013%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.671%) Balsamiq Mockups
5 1 (0.671%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.671%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.671%) Selenium
5 1 (0.671%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.671%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (16.11%) Finance
2 11 (7.383%) Banking
3 9 (6.040%) Local Government
4 5 (3.356%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.685%) Billing
6 3 (2.013%) Marketing
7 2 (1.342%) Electronics
8 1 (0.671%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.671%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 123 (82.55%) Developer
2 83 (55.70%) .NET Developer
3 36 (24.16%) C# Developer
4 30 (20.13%) Web Developer
5 25 (16.78%) VB.NET Developer
6 24 (16.11%) C# .NET Developer
7 23 (15.44%) ASP.NET Developer
7 23 (15.44%) Senior Developer
8 21 (14.09%) .NET Web Developer
9 17 (11.41%) Programmer
10 16 (10.74%) Consultant
10 16 (10.74%) .NET Programmer
10 16 (10.74%) VB.NET Programmer
11 15 (10.07%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 15 (10.07%) Web Applications Developer
11 15 (10.07%) Applications Developer
12 13 (8.725%) Business Consultant
12 13 (8.725%) Senior .NET Developer
12 13 (8.725%) .NET Applications Developer
13 12 (8.054%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.396%) Inversion of Control
2 13 (8.725%) Computer Science
3 4 (2.685%) SWIFT
4 3 (2.013%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.013%) W3C
5 2 (1.342%) Firmware
5 2 (1.342%) FMCG
6 1 (0.671%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.671%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.671%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.671%) NHS
6 1 (0.671%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.08%) Windows
2 4 (2.685%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (12.75%) Scrum
2 19 (12.75%) MVC
3 17 (11.41%) CRM
3 17 (11.41%) TDD
4 15 (10.07%) Web Application Development
5 13 (8.725%) Kanban
5 13 (8.725%) Dependency Injection
5 13 (8.725%) MVVM
5 13 (8.725%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (6.711%) RAD
7 7 (4.698%) Project Management
8 6 (4.027%) Project Planning
9 5 (3.356%) Migration
9 5 (3.356%) Automated Testing
10 4 (2.685%) Business Analysis
10 4 (2.685%) PRINCE
10 4 (2.685%) Document Management
10 4 (2.685%) Risk Management
10 4 (2.685%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 127 (85.23%) C#
2 97 (65.10%) SQL
3 33 (22.15%) JavaScript
4 22 (14.77%) T-SQL
5 12 (8.054%) VB
6 10 (6.711%) C
7 8 (5.369%) PHP
7 8 (5.369%) C++
8 7 (4.698%) VB6
9 5 (3.356%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.013%) Java
11 2 (1.342%) VBA
12 1 (0.671%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (11.41%) Degree
2 4 (2.685%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 4 (2.685%) PMP
3 3 (2.013%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.671%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.671%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.671%) ISEB
4 1 (0.671%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.013%) QA
2 1 (0.671%) HL7
Vendors
1 32 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.698%) Oracle
3 4 (2.685%) VMware
4 2 (1.342%) Progress
5 1 (0.671%) Salesforce.com
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