The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Thames Ditton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 Thames Ditton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 20 - 11
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 1 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Thames Ditton 3.030% - 12.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.448% - 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
Average salary £55,000 - £22,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Thames Ditton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
29 64 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Thames Ditton 87.88% 98.46% 83.33%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 20
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £45,250 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Surrey

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Thames Ditton 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 Thames Ditton region.

Thames Ditton VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Thames Ditton 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 21 (100.00%) C#
1 21 (100.00%) ASP
1 21 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 21 (100.00%) COM+
1 21 (100.00%) .NET
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 21 (100.00%) VB6
2 12 (57.14%) ITIL
2 12 (57.14%) Windows
3 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 10 (47.62%) Unit Testing
4 9 (42.86%) Crystal Reports
4 9 (42.86%) Scrum
5 7 (33.33%) Ajax
5 7 (33.33%) XHTML
5 7 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (33.33%) CSS
5 7 (33.33%) XML
5 7 (33.33%) jQuery
6 6 (28.57%) Refactoring
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
6 6 (28.57%) Build Automation
6 6 (28.57%) User Stories
6 6 (28.57%) E-Commerce
6 6 (28.57%) NUnit
6 6 (28.57%) CruiseControl
7 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.762%) Telerik

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Thames Ditton 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 21 (100.00%) ASP
1 21 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 21 (100.00%) COM+
1 21 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) Ajax
2 7 (33.33%) XHTML
2 7 (33.33%) CSS
2 7 (33.33%) XML
2 7 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
3 1 (4.762%) Flash
3 1 (4.762%) Web Services
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) MSMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) NUnit
1 6 (28.57%) CruiseControl
2 1 (4.762%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (71.43%) Software Developer
3 14 (66.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 12 (57.14%) .NET Developer
4 12 (57.14%) .NET Software Developer
5 11 (52.38%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (52.38%) C# Software Developer
5 11 (52.38%) C# Developer
6 9 (42.86%) ASP Developer
7 6 (28.57%) Classic ASP Developer
7 6 (28.57%) VB6 Developer
7 6 (28.57%) VB Developer
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) ITIL
2 10 (47.62%) Unit Testing
3 9 (42.86%) Scrum
4 6 (28.57%) Refactoring
4 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
4 6 (28.57%) Build Automation
4 6 (28.57%) User Stories
4 6 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.762%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) C#
1 21 (100.00%) VB6
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.762%) ActionScript
4 1 (4.762%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) Degree
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.762%) Telerik