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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Rank 17 9 13
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +4
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 3 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 6.667% 4.545% 2.273%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.108% 7.692% 5.556%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £24,000 £40,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +45.45%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Programming Languages
Redditch
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
37 13 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 82.22% 59.09% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 18
Average salary £30,000 £31,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +8.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £41,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB.NET
Worcestershire

VB.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redditch 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 Redditch region.

Redditch VB.NET Salary Trend

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 16 (100.00%) MVC
1 16 (100.00%) jQuery
2 15 (93.75%) Ajax
2 15 (93.75%) ASP.NET
2 15 (93.75%) Web Services
2 15 (93.75%) XML
2 15 (93.75%) HTML
3 14 (87.50%) Finance
4 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (75.00%) Scrum
4 12 (75.00%) XSLT
4 12 (75.00%) Oracle
4 12 (75.00%) Web Development
4 12 (75.00%) .NET Framework
5 11 (68.75%) MS Excel
6 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (25.00%) CSS
7 3 (18.75%) Change Management
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
7 3 (18.75%) Banking
7 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Web Design
7 3 (18.75%) WCF
8 2 (12.50%) C#
9 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
9 1 (6.250%) WinForms

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) jQuery
2 15 (93.75%) Ajax
2 15 (93.75%) ASP.NET
2 15 (93.75%) Web Services
2 15 (93.75%) XML
2 15 (93.75%) HTML
3 12 (75.00%) XSLT
3 12 (75.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) WCF
6 1 (6.250%) WinForms
6 1 (6.250%) HTML5
6 1 (6.250%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (68.75%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (87.50%) Web Developer
3 13 (81.25%) .NET Developer
4 11 (68.75%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.250%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) MVC
2 12 (75.00%) Scrum
2 12 (75.00%) Web Development
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
3 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Web Design
4 1 (6.250%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (75.00%) Oracle