The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Telford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 22 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 Telford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 26 23 16
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -7
Permanent jobs citing VB 2 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 1.290% 1.064% 12.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.564% 2.083% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 7
Average salary - £21,000 £16,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Telford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
78 48 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 50.32% 51.06% 59.65%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 31
Average salary £30,000 £31,000 £16,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.22% +93.75%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Shropshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Telford 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 Telford region.

Telford VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 2 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) VB Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
Telford, Shropshire
Keywords: Analyst, Programmer, Developer, C, VB, Java, C++, OO Language... Experience of the SDLC and exposure to an OO development language such as C/C++ is highly beneficial.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £23000 - £28000 per annum + Good Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013