The first table below looks at the demand for the VB6 Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VB6 Developer
Rank 829 847 803
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a VB6 Developer 29 49 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.027% 0.041% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.043% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 21 48 58
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% -5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £31,000 £28,550
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £52,500 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year
-1.40% -
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

VB6 Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

VB6 Developer Jobs Demand Trend

VB6 Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 Developer within the UK.

VB6 Developer Salary Trend

VB6 Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 Developer over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

VB6 Developer Salary Histogram

VB6 Developer
Top 27 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +12 28 £35,000 -1.40%
North West +4 12 £32,500 -
West Midlands -11 8 £35,000 -20.45%
Worcestershire - 8 £35,000 -
Merseyside - 7 £28,000 -
Worcester - 7 £35,000 -
Liverpool - 5 £28,000 -
Cheshire 0 4 £32,500 -
London +27 2 - -
Yorkshire -17 2 £40,000 +14.28%
South East -21 2 £41,750 +15.97%
Warrington +10 1 £32,500 -
Hampshire -1 1 £38,500 -26.66%
North Yorkshire -3 1 - -
Winchester -6 1 £38,500 +2.66%
Manchester -19 1 £27,500 -21.42%
East of England - 1 £35,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £40,000 -
Middlesex - 1 £45,000 -
Leicestershire - 1 £40,000 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £35,000 -
York - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 £27,500 -
Leicester - 1 £40,000 -
Dunstable - 1 £35,000 -
Castleford - 1 £40,000 -

VB6 Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited VB6 Developer in their job title 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 with VB6 Developer in their job title.

1 75 (100.00%) VB
1 75 (100.00%) VB6
2 74 (98.67%) .NET
3 54 (72.00%) SQL
4 44 (58.67%) C#
5 41 (54.67%) SQL Server
6 39 (52.00%) VB.NET
7 38 (50.67%) JavaScript
7 38 (50.67%) ASP.NET
8 30 (40.00%) ASP
8 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
9 28 (37.33%) CSS
10 27 (36.00%) HTML
11 26 (34.67%) T-SQL
12 23 (30.67%) XML
13 21 (28.00%) Web Development
13 21 (28.00%) Ajax
14 20 (26.67%) Windows
15 19 (25.33%) Scrum
15 19 (25.33%) WCF
16 17 (22.67%) NUnit
16 17 (22.67%) Visual Studio
16 17 (22.67%) Crystal Reports
17 16 (21.33%) Unit Testing
18 15 (20.00%) Oracle
18 15 (20.00%) E-Commerce
19 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
19 13 (17.33%) jQuery
20 12 (16.00%) Build Automation
20 12 (16.00%) User Stories

VB6 Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited VB6 Developer in their job title 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 with VB6 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 74 (98.67%) .NET
2 38 (50.67%) ASP.NET
3 30 (40.00%) ASP
4 28 (37.33%) CSS
5 27 (36.00%) HTML
6 23 (30.67%) XML
7 21 (28.00%) Ajax
8 19 (25.33%) WCF
9 13 (17.33%) jQuery
10 12 (16.00%) .NET Framework
10 12 (16.00%) XHTML
10 12 (16.00%) Web Services
10 12 (16.00%) COM+
11 9 (12.00%) NHibernate
12 7 (9.333%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (6.667%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 5 (6.667%) DCOM
14 4 (5.333%) WinForms
15 2 (2.667%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.667%) IIS
2 4 (5.333%) LiveLink
3 1 (1.333%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.333%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 6 (8.000%) MS Office
2 3 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) HTTP
1 8 (10.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (54.67%) SQL Server
2 17 (22.67%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (8.000%) MS Access
4 5 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (5.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (5.333%) TOAD
6 3 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.667%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.667%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (1.333%) MySQL
8 1 (1.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) NUnit
1 17 (22.67%) Visual Studio
2 12 (16.00%) CruiseControl
3 11 (14.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (6.667%) Rhino Mocks
4 5 (6.667%) Moq
5 4 (5.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (5.333%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (16.00%) Retail
2 5 (6.667%) Finance
3 4 (5.333%) Banking
3 4 (5.333%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.667%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.333%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.000%) SaaS
3 3 (4.000%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.667%) AS400
4 2 (2.667%) iSeries
4 2 (2.667%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.333%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (26.67%) Windows
2 5 (6.667%) Windows XP
2 5 (6.667%) Android
2 5 (6.667%) Windows 7
2 5 (6.667%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.667%) Windows 8
3 4 (5.333%) Windows Mobile
4 3 (4.000%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.00%) Web Development
2 19 (25.33%) Scrum
3 16 (21.33%) Unit Testing
4 15 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (16.00%) Refactoring
6 12 (16.00%) MVC
6 12 (16.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 12 (16.00%) Build Automation
6 12 (16.00%) User Stories
7 5 (6.667%) BDD
7 5 (6.667%) Problem Management
7 5 (6.667%) Migration
7 5 (6.667%) Data Modelling
7 5 (6.667%) TDD
7 5 (6.667%) Kanban
8 4 (5.333%) Data Migration
9 3 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (4.000%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (4.000%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 75 (100.00%) VB
1 75 (100.00%) VB6
2 54 (72.00%) SQL
3 44 (58.67%) C#
4 39 (52.00%) VB.NET
5 38 (50.67%) JavaScript
6 26 (34.67%) T-SQL
7 12 (16.00%) Java
8 7 (9.333%) PL/SQL
9 6 (8.000%) C++
10 5 (6.667%) VBA
11 4 (5.333%) FoxPro (VFP)
11 4 (5.333%) XAML
12 2 (2.667%) C
13 1 (1.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.333%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.333%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.000%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (6.667%) Apple
4 2 (2.667%) Business Objects
4 2 (2.667%) IBM
Ashford, Middlesex
VB6 / SQL Developer to work for a global online retail organisation... You will have the opportunity to work with additional technologies such as ASP.Net, Java, C# etc.
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ashford, South East
VB6 / SQL Developer to work for a global online retail organisation... You will have the opportunity to work with additional technologies such as ASP.Net, Java, C# etc.
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
The SQL side of the role will involve data migration between databases, reporting and writing stored procedures... This is written in VB6 and VB.Net and is constantly...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 9 May 2013
Swindon, South West
With exciting projects coming up and a planned move to more modern systems the successful candidate needs the following skills: VB.NET VB6 SQL C# ASP.NET Agile/...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Holidays
Posted: 15 May 2013