Tyne and Wear VB Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Tyne and Wear 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 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Castleford Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Shields North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wickford Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	22
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching permanent IT job ads	28	82
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	9.428 %	17.12 %
Salaries quoted	24	62
Average minimum salary	£31,042	£27,790
Average salary	£32,250	£29,060
% change on same period last year	+10.97 %
Average maximum salary	£33,458	£30,330
UK excluding London average salary	£33,077	£33,686
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Programming Languages Tyne and Wear
Matching permanent IT job ads	297	479
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.172 %	0.206 %
Salaries quoted	258	383
Average minimum salary	£29,529	£28,171
Average salary	£32,069	£30,865
% change on same period last year	+3.89 %
Average maximum salary	£34,608	£33,560
UK excluding London average salary	£35,506	£35,791
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
VB North East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle	+32	16	£33,688	-7.38 %
Newcastle Upon Tyne	-5	6	£27,250	-4.25 %
North Shields	-	4	-	-
Sunderland	-9	1	£42,500	+43.30 %
Tyneside	+4	1	£29,000	-27.50 %

VB North East

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 28 (63.64 %) SQL Server 2 27 (61.36 %) .NET 3 22 (50.00 %) C# 4 18 (40.91 %) Windows 4 18 (40.91 %) Microsoft 5 16 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2005 5 16 (36.36 %) SQL 6 15 (34.09 %) VB6 7 13 (29.55 %) XML 8 10 (22.73 %) ASP.NET 8 10 (22.73 %) Visual Studio 8 10 (22.73 %) Transact-SQL 8 10 (22.73 %) Windows Mobile 9 9 (20.45 %) PDA 10 8 (18.18 %) ASP

11 7 (15.91 %) Oracle 11 7 (15.91 %) Pensions 12 6 (13.64 %) VBA 13 5 (11.36 %) VBScript 13 5 (11.36 %) VB.NET 13 5 (11.36 %) Windows XP 14 4 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g 14 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 14 4 (9.091 %) EDRMS 14 4 (9.091 %) Project Management 14 4 (9.091 %) HTML 14 4 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 15 3 (6.818 %) Scrum 15 3 (6.818 %) Health 15 3 (6.818 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 27 (61.36 %) .NET 2 13 (29.55 %) XML 3 10 (22.73 %) ASP.NET 4 8 (18.18 %) ASP 5 4 (9.091 %) HTML 6 3 (6.818 %) AJAX 7 2 (4.545 %) Ruby on Rails 7 2 (4.545 %) WCF 7 2 (4.545 %) WPF 7 2 (4.545 %) WF 7 2 (4.545 %) WebServices 8 1 (2.273 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (2.273 %) CSS 8 1 (2.273 %) ADO.NET 8 1 (2.273 %) XSL 8 1 (2.273 %) ActiveX 8 1 (2.273 %) XHTML 8 1 (2.273 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.545 %) IIS 1 2 (4.545 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.273 %) ArcGIS 2 1 (2.273 %) ArcIMS 2 1 (2.273 %) ArcSDE 2 1 (2.273 %) MapXtreme
Applications 1 3 (6.818 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.818 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (63.64 %) SQL Server 2 16 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (9.091 %) EDRMS 3 4 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (6.818 %) MySQL 5 2 (4.545 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (4.545 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (4.545 %) MS Access 6 1 (2.273 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (2.273 %) DTS 6 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (2.273 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (2.273 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 10 (22.73 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.273 %) Flash 2 1 (2.273 %) Eclipse
General 1 7 (15.91 %) Pensions 2 3 (6.818 %) Health 2 3 (6.818 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.273 %) Auditing 3 1 (2.273 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 29 (65.91 %) Developer 2 18 (40.91 %) .NET Developer 3 8 (18.18 %) Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (6.818 %) Programmer 4 3 (6.818 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Data Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Helpdesk Support 4 3 (6.818 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Analyst Developer 4 3 (6.818 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (4.545 %) SharePoint Developer 5 2 (4.545 %) Systems Manager 5 2 (4.545 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (4.545 %) Applications Developer 5 2 (4.545 %) Market Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Software Team Leader 6 1 (2.273 %) Development Manager 6 1 (2.273 %) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (20.45 %) PDA 2 2 (4.545 %) Tandem 3 1 (2.273 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.273 %) W3C 3 1 (2.273 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 18 (40.91 %) Windows 2 10 (22.73 %) Windows Mobile 3 5 (11.36 %) Windows XP 4 3 (6.818 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (2.273 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 4 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (6.818 %) Scrum 2 3 (6.818 %) UML 3 2 (4.545 %) Migration 3 2 (4.545 %) Document Management 3 2 (4.545 %) Statistical Analysis 3 2 (4.545 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (2.273 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.273 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (2.273 %) Extreme Programming 4 1 (2.273 %) TDD 4 1 (2.273 %) OOP 4 1 (2.273 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (2.273 %) OO 4 1 (2.273 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 22 (50.00 %) C# 2 16 (36.36 %) SQL 3 15 (34.09 %) VB6 4 10 (22.73 %) Transact-SQL 5 6 (13.64 %) VBA 6 5 (11.36 %) VBScript 6 5 (11.36 %) VB.NET 7 3 (6.818 %) PHP 8 2 (4.545 %) C 8 2 (4.545 %) Ruby 8 2 (4.545 %) VC++ 8 2 (4.545 %) C++ 8 2 (4.545 %) Java 9 1 (2.273 %) JavaScript 9 1 (2.273 %) ActionScript 9 1 (2.273 %) FoxPro (VFP) 9 1 (2.273 %) MapBasic
Qualifications 1 3 (6.818 %) Degree 2 1 (2.273 %) MCP 2 1 (2.273 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) SLA
Vendors 1 18 (40.91 %) Microsoft 2 7 (15.91 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.273 %) Mapinfo 3 1 (2.273 %) Sony 3 1 (2.273 %) ProClarity