The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southend-on-Sea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 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 Southend-on-Sea region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank - 9 13
Permanent jobs citing VB 0 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southend-on-Sea - 5.882% 18.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 6.250% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 7
Average salary - £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -9.33%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Southend-on-Sea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
5 16 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southend-on-Sea 33.33% 94.12% 73.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 28
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Essex

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southend-on-Sea VB Jobs Demand Trend

VB
Salary Trend

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

Southend-on-Sea VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southend-on-Sea region citing VB 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.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southend-on-Sea region citing VB 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle