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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stratford-upon-Avon 12.96% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £37,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Stratford-upon-Avon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
28 18 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stratford-upon-Avon 51.85% 45.00% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27 17 3
Average salary £30,000 £27,500 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% +19.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,250 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £24,550 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Warwickshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stratford-upon-Avon 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 Stratford-upon-Avon region.

Stratford-upon-Avon VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Stratford-upon-Avon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Stratford-upon-Avon VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stratford-upon-Avon 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 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Windows 2000
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Automated Testing
2 9 (90.00%) QA
2 9 (90.00%) Selenium
2 9 (90.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) New Media
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Intranet
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stratford-upon-Avon 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 10 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) Ajax
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Selenium
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Analyst
1 9 (90.00%) Test Analyst
1 9 (90.00%) Systems Analyst
1 9 (90.00%) Systems Test Analyst
2 8 (80.00%) Tester
2 8 (80.00%) Systems Tester
3 5 (50.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) UNIX
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Automated Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Web Development
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft