The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 46 19 15
Rank change year-on-year
-27 -4
Permanent jobs citing VB 6 52 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 1.671% 9.886% 9.677%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.636% 13.54% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 52 26
Average salary £33,750 £35,250 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.25% -2.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165 384 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 45.96% 73.00% 49.10%
Number of salaries quoted 148 361 118
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Cheshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 23 (79.31%) SQL
2 21 (72.41%) SQL Server
3 20 (68.97%) .NET
4 15 (51.72%) C++
5 14 (48.28%) Oracle
6 13 (44.83%) C#
7 12 (41.38%) ASP.NET
8 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
9 10 (34.48%) C
9 10 (34.48%) VB.NET
10 9 (31.03%) HTML
10 9 (31.03%) RDBMS
11 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
11 8 (27.59%) Perl
11 8 (27.59%) PL/SQL
11 8 (27.59%) DB2
11 8 (27.59%) Selenium
11 8 (27.59%) Test Scripting
12 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
12 6 (20.69%) jQuery
12 6 (20.69%) Java
12 6 (20.69%) CSS
12 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
13 5 (17.24%) VB6
13 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
13 5 (17.24%) J2EE
13 5 (17.24%) QA
13 5 (17.24%) Degree
14 4 (13.79%) JSON
14 4 (13.79%) Software Testing

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 20 (68.97%) .NET
2 12 (41.38%) ASP.NET
3 9 (31.03%) HTML
4 6 (20.69%) jQuery
4 6 (20.69%) CSS
5 5 (17.24%) J2EE
6 4 (13.79%) JSON
6 4 (13.79%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) SOAP
6 4 (13.79%) Web Services
7 3 (10.34%) XML
7 3 (10.34%) WinForms
8 2 (6.897%) WCF
8 2 (6.897%) WPF
8 2 (6.897%) ActiveX
9 1 (3.448%) XSLT
9 1 (3.448%) Node.js
9 1 (3.448%) Ninject
9 1 (3.448%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
2 4 (13.79%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Sage 200
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (72.41%) SQL Server
2 9 (31.03%) RDBMS
3 8 (27.59%) DB2
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (3.448%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Selenium
2 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.448%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.448%) Back Office
1 1 (3.448%) Finance
1 1 (3.448%) Music
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 12 (41.38%) .NET Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Graduate
4 5 (17.24%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) IT Graduate
5 4 (13.79%) Automation Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Test Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Tester
6 2 (6.897%) VB6 Developer
6 2 (6.897%) VB Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.448%) QA Analyst
7 1 (3.448%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) VB.NET Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
2 4 (13.79%) NHS
3 1 (3.448%) Streaming Music
3 1 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.897%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (3.448%) UNIX
3 1 (3.448%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Test Scripting
2 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
2 4 (13.79%) Automated Testing
3 2 (6.897%) OO
3 2 (6.897%) Scrum
4 1 (3.448%) MVC
4 1 (3.448%) Migration
4 1 (3.448%) ERP
4 1 (3.448%) SOA
4 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.448%) TDD
4 1 (3.448%) Document Management
4 1 (3.448%) Project Management
4 1 (3.448%) OOP
4 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.448%) Web Development
4 1 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.448%) Web Application Development
4 1 (3.448%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.448%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (79.31%) SQL
2 15 (51.72%) C++
3 13 (44.83%) C#
4 10 (34.48%) C
4 10 (34.48%) VB.NET
5 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
5 8 (27.59%) Perl
5 8 (27.59%) PL/SQL
6 6 (20.69%) Java
7 5 (17.24%) VB6
8 4 (13.79%) Delphi
9 3 (10.34%) PHP
10 2 (6.897%) T-SQL
10 2 (6.897%) Objective-C
11 1 (3.448%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.448%) MCP
2 1 (3.448%) MCAD
2 1 (3.448%) MCSD
2 1 (3.448%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Oracle
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.448%) Apple
3 1 (3.448%) Sage
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