The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 42 67 67
Rank change year-on-year
+25 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 8 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.712% 0.288% 0.921%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.674% 0.415% 1.475%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 4
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -0.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,750 £36,000 £31,650
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £36,000 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
141 241 339
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 47.80% 69.45% 62.43%
Number of salaries quoted 103 154 245
Average salary £36,500 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.19% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Hertfordshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Watford region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Watford VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 18 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 16 (66.67%) SQL
4 10 (41.67%) .NET
4 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (29.17%) MySQL
5 7 (29.17%) IIS
6 5 (20.83%) Perl
6 5 (20.83%) C#
6 5 (20.83%) AIX
6 5 (20.83%) Linux
6 5 (20.83%) Apache
6 5 (20.83%) Tomcat
6 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
6 5 (20.83%) Tivoli
6 5 (20.83%) BMC
6 5 (20.83%) Netcool
6 5 (20.83%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 5 (20.83%) Control-M
6 5 (20.83%) Service Management
6 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.83%) Firewall
6 5 (20.83%) ITSM
6 5 (20.83%) Korn
7 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (16.67%) Games
7 4 (16.67%) SolidWorks
7 4 (16.67%) VMware
7 4 (16.67%) Windows 7
7 4 (16.67%) Sage 200

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 10 (41.67%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.167%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.167%) Reactive Extensions
Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) IIS
2 5 (20.83%) Apache
2 5 (20.83%) Tomcat
3 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) HTTP
2 3 (12.50%) SNMP
3 2 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.333%) DNS
3 2 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (29.17%) MySQL
3 2 (8.333%) DB2
4 1 (4.167%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (16.67%) Games
2 3 (12.50%) Advertising
3 2 (8.333%) Finance
4 1 (4.167%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.167%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.167%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Applications Support
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Programmer
4 4 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (16.67%) Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.333%) Junior
5 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Support Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Administrator
5 2 (8.333%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Applications Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) FMCG
2 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (20.83%) AIX
3 5 (20.83%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Service Management
1 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (20.83%) ITSM
2 4 (16.67%) OO
2 4 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.333%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (4.167%) Release Management
5 1 (4.167%) Scalability Testing
5 1 (4.167%) UML
5 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.167%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Perl
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) Korn
3 4 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 4 (16.67%) FoxPro (VFP)
4 3 (12.50%) VB6
4 3 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.167%) C++
5 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.167%) VBScript
5 1 (4.167%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) ISEB
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO 9001
2 2 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Netcool
1 5 (20.83%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 5 (20.83%) Control-M
1 5 (20.83%) Tivoli
2 4 (16.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (12.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) BMC
2 4 (16.67%) Sage
2 4 (16.67%) Symantec
2 4 (16.67%) SolidWorks
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle
4 1 (4.167%) Business Objects