St Albans VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the St Albans 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 25 July 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 Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate 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 Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Thetford Thirsk Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Walton-on-Thames Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	29
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	17.26 %	8.333 %
Salaries quoted	29	11
Average minimum salary	£31,793	£28,909
Average salary	£34,000	£31,364
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum salary	£36,207	£33,818
UK excluding London average salary	£33,155	£32,856
% change on same period last year	+0.91 %
Programming Languages St Albans
Matching permanent IT job ads	168	132
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.054 %
Salaries quoted	166	115
Average minimum salary	£31,405	£30,414
Average salary	£34,214	£33,653
% change on same period last year	+1.66 %
Average maximum salary	£37,024	£36,892
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
VB.NET Hertfordshire

VB.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB.NET across the St Albans 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 St Albans region.

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 66 (100.00 %) .NET 2 56 (84.85 %) C# 3 51 (77.27 %) VB 4 49 (74.24 %) VB6 5 42 (63.64 %) SQL 6 40 (60.61 %) Oracle 7 39 (59.09 %) UML 7 39 (59.09 %) OOD 8 27 (40.91 %) Retail 9 26 (39.39 %) Project Management 9 26 (39.39 %) Microsoft 10 24 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 10 24 (36.36 %) MCSD 10 24 (36.36 %) SQL Server 10 24 (36.36 %) Degree

11 21 (31.82 %) ASP.NET 12 16 (24.24 %) HTML 12 16 (24.24 %) ASP 12 16 (24.24 %) Web Development 13 15 (22.73 %) JavaScript 14 14 (21.21 %) ADO.NET 14 14 (21.21 %) XML 15 13 (19.70 %) PHP 16 12 (18.18 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 12 (18.18 %) DOM 16 12 (18.18 %) XSLT 16 12 (18.18 %) ClearCase 16 12 (18.18 %) Bugzilla 16 12 (18.18 %) AJAX 16 12 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 66 (100.00 %) .NET 2 21 (31.82 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (24.24 %) HTML 3 16 (24.24 %) ASP 4 14 (21.21 %) ADO.NET 4 14 (21.21 %) XML 5 12 (18.18 %) DOM 5 12 (18.18 %) XSLT 5 12 (18.18 %) AJAX 6 11 (16.67 %) .NET Framework 7 10 (15.15 %) Ruby on Rails 8 8 (12.12 %) WinForms 9 3 (4.545 %) CSS 10 2 (3.030 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 10 (15.15 %) Apache 2 2 (3.030 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (1.515 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.515 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 12 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (15.15 %) MySQL 4 2 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 12 (18.18 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 12 (18.18 %) ClearCase 1 12 (18.18 %) Bugzilla 2 11 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.515 %) Flash
General 1 27 (40.91 %) Retail 2 7 (10.61 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.515 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.515 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 51 (77.27 %) Developer 2 19 (28.79 %) Senior Developer 3 15 (22.73 %) C# Developer 4 14 (21.21 %) Applications Developer 4 14 (21.21 %) Development Manager 5 12 (18.18 %) Web Development Manager 5 12 (18.18 %) Web Manager 6 10 (15.15 %) .NET Developer 7 8 (12.12 %) VB.NET Developer 8 7 (10.61 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 7 (10.61 %) Senior C# Developer 8 7 (10.61 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 6 (9.091 %) Software Developer 10 4 (6.061 %) C# Application Developer 11 2 (3.030 %) Project Manager 11 2 (3.030 %) Web Developer 11 2 (3.030 %) Technical Project Manager 11 2 (3.030 %) Technical Manager 11 2 (3.030 %) Development Project Manager 11 2 (3.030 %) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 12 (18.18 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 7 (10.61 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (59.09 %) OOD 1 39 (59.09 %) UML 2 26 (39.39 %) Project Management 3 16 (24.24 %) Web Development 4 10 (15.15 %) OO 5 1 (1.515 %) SEO 5 1 (1.515 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 56 (84.85 %) C# 2 51 (77.27 %) VB 3 49 (74.24 %) VB6 4 42 (63.64 %) SQL 5 15 (22.73 %) JavaScript 6 13 (19.70 %) PHP 7 11 (16.67 %) C++ 8 10 (15.15 %) Python 8 10 (15.15 %) Ruby 9 1 (1.515 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 24 (36.36 %) MCSD 1 24 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 1 24 (36.36 %) Degree	Vendors 1 40 (60.61 %) Oracle 2 26 (39.39 %) Microsoft