Suffolk VB.NET Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) skills within the Suffolk 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 10 October 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 Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Beverley Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carnforth Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cradley Heath Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Matlock Melksham Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Pickering Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Ringwood Rochdale Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Scotland Seaford Selby Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitehaven Whitstable Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	18
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	99	121
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	20.37 %	20.37 %
Salaries quoted	87	116
Average minimum salary	£26,977	£30,892
Average salary	£29,358	£33,866
% change on same period last year	-13.31 %
Average maximum salary	£31,739	£36,841
UK excluding London average salary	£32,925	£33,320
% change on same period last year	-1.18 %
Programming Languages Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	486	594
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.281 %	0.256 %
Salaries quoted	423	516
Average minimum salary	£32,758	£33,325
Average salary	£35,364	£36,751
% change on same period last year	-3.77 %
Average maximum salary	£37,971	£40,176
UK excluding London average salary	£35,506	£35,791
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

VB.NET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Ipswich	+16	62	£27,991	-22.30 %
Bury St Edmunds	+1	27	£31,413	+2.12 %
Newmarket	-1	7	£34,667	+6.66 %
Felixstowe	-	2	£26,250	-

VB.NET East of England

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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.

1 156 (100.00 %) .NET 2 133 (85.26 %) ASP.NET 3 121 (77.56 %) SQL Server 4 99 (63.46 %) C# 5 59 (37.82 %) SQL 6 52 (33.33 %) XML 7 48 (30.77 %) Transact-SQL 7 48 (30.77 %) VB 8 46 (29.49 %) JavaScript 9 43 (27.56 %) VB6 10 42 (26.92 %) SQL Server 2005 11 37 (23.72 %) Microsoft 12 33 (21.15 %) OO 12 33 (21.15 %) AJAX 13 29 (18.59 %) Visual Studio

14 27 (17.31 %) CSS 15 26 (16.67 %) .NET Framework 16 25 (16.03 %) WebServices 16 25 (16.03 %) XHTML 17 24 (15.38 %) UML 17 24 (15.38 %) Web Development 18 23 (14.74 %) XSLT 19 21 (13.46 %) HTML 20 18 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2000 20 18 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 21 17 (10.90 %) Banking 22 15 (9.615 %) MCSD 23 14 (8.974 %) SharePoint 24 12 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical 24 12 (7.692 %) PHP

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 1 156 (100.00 %) .NET 2 133 (85.26 %) ASP.NET 3 52 (33.33 %) XML 4 33 (21.15 %) AJAX 5 27 (17.31 %) CSS 6 26 (16.67 %) .NET Framework 7 25 (16.03 %) XHTML 7 25 (16.03 %) WebServices 8 23 (14.74 %) XSLT 9 21 (13.46 %) HTML 10 12 (7.692 %) ASP 11 10 (6.410 %) SOAP 12 7 (4.487 %) J2EE 12 7 (4.487 %) WinForms 12 7 (4.487 %) WebSphere 13 4 (2.564 %) XSD 13 4 (2.564 %) WCF 13 4 (2.564 %) WPF 13 4 (2.564 %) ADO.NET 14 1 (0.641 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 14 (8.974 %) SharePoint 2 7 (4.487 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (4.487 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 5 (3.205 %) IIS
Applications 1 10 (6.410 %) MS Office 2 6 (3.846 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.923 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.641 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (1.923 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.641 %) VoIP 1 1 (0.641 %) CTI 1 1 (0.641 %) TETRA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 121 (77.56 %) SQL Server 2 42 (26.92 %) SQL Server 2005 3 18 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (5.769 %) DTS 5 5 (3.205 %) Crystal Reports 5 5 (3.205 %) MS Access 6 4 (2.564 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (0.641 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.641 %) DB2 7 1 (0.641 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 29 (18.59 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (5.128 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.641 %) NUnit	General 1 17 (10.90 %) Banking 2 12 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical 3 8 (5.128 %) Finance 4 7 (4.487 %) Insurance 5 5 (3.205 %) Health 6 4 (2.564 %) Games 6 4 (2.564 %) Retail 6 4 (2.564 %) Billing 7 1 (0.641 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 134 (85.90 %) Developer 2 113 (72.44 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (17.95 %) Web Developer 4 25 (16.03 %) .NET Web Developer 5 24 (15.38 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 23 (14.74 %) Software Developer 7 22 (14.10 %) VB.NET Developer 8 21 (13.46 %) C# Developer 9 15 (9.615 %) Programmer 10 14 (8.974 %) Graduate 10 14 (8.974 %) Graduate Developer 10 14 (8.974 %) Graduate .NET Developer 11 13 (8.333 %) .NET Programmer 12 11 (7.051 %) VB.NET Programmer 13 10 (6.410 %) Software Programmer 13 10 (6.410 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 10 (6.410 %) Graduate CSharp Developer 14 9 (5.769 %) Analyst 15 8 (5.128 %) Systems Developer 16 7 (4.487 %) Junior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (5.128 %) Data Protection Act 2 2 (1.282 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 2 (1.282 %) Windows 2 1 (0.641 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (21.15 %) OO 2 24 (15.38 %) UML 2 24 (15.38 %) Web Development 3 8 (5.128 %) Data Protection 4 6 (3.846 %) SOA 4 6 (3.846 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (3.846 %) TDD 5 3 (1.923 %) CRM 6 1 (0.641 %) OOP 6 1 (0.641 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (0.641 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 99 (63.46 %) C# 2 59 (37.82 %) SQL 3 48 (30.77 %) Transact-SQL 3 48 (30.77 %) VB 4 46 (29.49 %) JavaScript 5 43 (27.56 %) VB6 6 12 (7.692 %) PHP 7 11 (7.051 %) Java 8 4 (2.564 %) Delphi 9 3 (1.923 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.641 %) C 10 1 (0.641 %) C++ 10 1 (0.641 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 18 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (9.615 %) MCSD 3 8 (5.128 %) Degree 4 6 (3.846 %) MCAD 5 3 (1.923 %) MCP 5 3 (1.923 %) MCTS 6 2 (1.282 %) MCPD 7 1 (0.641 %) MCITP
Vendors 1 37 (23.72 %) Microsoft 2 3 (1.923 %) Citrix 2 3 (1.923 %) SAP 3 1 (0.641 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.641 %) Infragistics