Wales VB6 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB6 over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Berkshire Bexley Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop Auckland Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingswinford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Ludlow Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Ross-on-Wye Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	45
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching permanent IT job ads	110	79
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	12.93 %	9.294 %
Salaries quoted	109	75
Average minimum salary	£29,573	£24,660
Average salary	£33,060	£27,457
% change on same period last year	+20.40 %
Average maximum salary	£36,548	£30,253
UK excluding London average salary	£33,190	£34,103
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Programming Languages Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	851	850
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.551 %	0.379 %
Salaries quoted	785	794
Average minimum salary	£29,742	£27,673
Average salary	£33,334	£30,938
% change on same period last year	+7.74 %
Average maximum salary	£36,926	£34,203
UK excluding London average salary	£35,693	£35,932
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
VB6 UK

VB6
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB6
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB6 across the Wales region.

VB6
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB6 across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

VB6
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 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
South Wales	+10	79	£33,661	+21.57 %
North Wales	+22	18	£30,778	+50.13 %
West Wales	+1	5	£33,000	+10.00 %

VB6 UK

VB6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing VB6 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 VB6.

1 176 (100.00 %) VB 2 161 (91.48 %) .NET 3 117 (66.48 %) SQL Server 4 115 (65.34 %) C# 5 105 (59.66 %) VB.NET 6 89 (50.57 %) SQL 7 78 (44.32 %) ASP.NET 8 75 (42.61 %) Windows 9 72 (40.91 %) ASP 10 61 (34.66 %) Transact-SQL 11 51 (28.98 %) Microsoft 12 40 (22.73 %) Java 12 40 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2005 13 37 (21.02 %) XML 14 32 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000

15 31 (17.61 %) WebServices 15 31 (17.61 %) Visual Studio 16 28 (15.91 %) IIS 17 25 (14.20 %) Agile Software Development 18 24 (13.64 %) Internet 19 23 (13.07 %) Migration 19 23 (13.07 %) Visual Studio Team System 20 22 (12.50 %) OO 21 21 (11.93 %) VBA 21 21 (11.93 %) Silverlight 22 20 (11.36 %) LINQ 23 19 (10.80 %) RIA 24 18 (10.23 %) .NET Framework 25 17 (9.659 %) Insurance 25 17 (9.659 %) Windows Server 2003

VB6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing VB6 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 VB6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 161 (91.48 %) .NET 2 78 (44.32 %) ASP.NET 3 72 (40.91 %) ASP 4 37 (21.02 %) XML 5 31 (17.61 %) WebServices 6 21 (11.93 %) Silverlight 7 20 (11.36 %) LINQ 8 18 (10.23 %) .NET Framework 9 8 (4.545 %) MVC 9 8 (4.545 %) WCF 9 8 (4.545 %) WF 10 7 (3.977 %) HTML 11 5 (2.841 %) AJAX 12 4 (2.273 %) ADO.NET 13 3 (1.705 %) CSS 14 2 (1.136 %) SOAP 14 2 (1.136 %) XSL 14 2 (1.136 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 28 (15.91 %) IIS 2 9 (5.114 %) SharePoint 3 4 (2.273 %) OpenROAD 3 4 (2.273 %) SAS
Applications 1 14 (7.955 %) MS Excel 2 4 (2.273 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 24 (13.64 %) Internet 2 6 (3.409 %) SAN 3 2 (1.136 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (1.136 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 117 (66.48 %) SQL Server 2 40 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2005 3 32 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000 4 15 (8.523 %) SQL Server 7 5 4 (2.273 %) Crystal Reports 5 4 (2.273 %) BusinessObjects 5 4 (2.273 %) Ingres 6 3 (1.705 %) DB2 7 2 (1.136 %) MySQL 8 1 (0.568 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 31 (17.61 %) Visual Studio 2 23 (13.07 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 3 (1.705 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.136 %) Flash 5 1 (0.568 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 17 (9.659 %) Insurance 2 11 (6.250 %) Finance 3 9 (5.114 %) Pensions 4 7 (3.977 %) Investment Banking 4 7 (3.977 %) Banking 4 7 (3.977 %) Retail 4 7 (3.977 %) Pharmaceutical 5 5 (2.841 %) Education 6 4 (2.273 %) Law 6 4 (2.273 %) Government 7 2 (1.136 %) Health 7 2 (1.136 %) Aerospace 7 2 (1.136 %) Automotive 7 2 (1.136 %) Back Office 7 2 (1.136 %) Graphic Design 8 1 (0.568 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 99 (56.25 %) Developer 2 60 (34.09 %) .NET Developer 3 48 (27.27 %) VB.NET Developer 4 47 (26.70 %) Analyst 5 34 (19.32 %) Programmer 6 30 (17.05 %) Analyst Programmer 6 30 (17.05 %) Software Developer 7 25 (14.20 %) C# Developer 8 24 (13.64 %) Senior Developer 9 13 (7.386 %) VB Developer 10 12 (6.818 %) Team Leader 10 12 (6.818 %) Architect 11 11 (6.250 %) .NET Programmer 12 10 (5.682 %) Solutions Analyst 12 10 (5.682 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 13 9 (5.114 %) VB6 Developer 13 9 (5.114 %) Senior .NET Developer 13 9 (5.114 %) Systems Developer 14 8 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 14 8 (4.545 %) Senior Systems Developer
Miscellaneous 1 19 (10.80 %) RIA 2 5 (2.841 %) iSeries 2 5 (2.841 %) Management Information System 2 5 (2.841 %) AS400 3 2 (1.136 %) NHS 3 2 (1.136 %) Speech Recognition 4 1 (0.568 %) Firmware 4 1 (0.568 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 75 (42.61 %) Windows 2 17 (9.659 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2008 4 3 (1.705 %) Windows Mobile 5 2 (1.136 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.568 %) VMS 6 1 (0.568 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (14.20 %) Agile Software Development 2 23 (13.07 %) Migration 3 22 (12.50 %) OO 4 12 (6.818 %) B2B 4 12 (6.818 %) Unit Testing 5 11 (6.250 %) B2C 5 11 (6.250 %) Project Management 6 10 (5.682 %) SOA 7 9 (5.114 %) ERP 8 8 (4.545 %) Security Cleared 9 7 (3.977 %) Scrum 10 5 (2.841 %) System Testing 10 5 (2.841 %) Data Migration 10 5 (2.841 %) CRM 10 5 (2.841 %) UML 11 3 (1.705 %) Requirements Analysis 11 3 (1.705 %) Project Planning 11 3 (1.705 %) Web Development 11 3 (1.705 %) RAD 12 2 (1.136 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 176 (100.00 %) VB 2 115 (65.34 %) C# 3 105 (59.66 %) VB.NET 4 89 (50.57 %) SQL 5 61 (34.66 %) Transact-SQL 6 40 (22.73 %) Java 7 21 (11.93 %) VBA 8 6 (3.409 %) C++ 9 4 (2.273 %) C 9 4 (2.273 %) JavaScript 10 3 (1.705 %) VBScript 11 1 (0.568 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 11 (6.250 %) Degree 2 5 (2.841 %) ISEB 3 3 (1.705 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.136 %) QA
Vendors 1 51 (28.98 %) Microsoft 2 4 (2.273 %) Business Objects 3 3 (1.705 %) IBM 3 3 (1.705 %) Sybase 3 3 (1.705 %) Oracle 4 1 (0.568 %) Metastorm 4 1 (0.568 %) Progress 4 1 (0.568 %) BEA