The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Bromwich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 23 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 West Bromwich region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 9 - 8
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 6 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Bromwich 17.14% - 8.696%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% - 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 2
Average salary £37,500 - £37,000
90% offered a salary of more than £31,250 - £29,400
10% offered a salary of more than £40,250 - £44,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
West Bromwich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 24 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Bromwich 51.43% 77.42% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 11
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,100 £44,700 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
West Midlands

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Bromwich 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 West Bromwich region.

West Bromwich VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the West Bromwich region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Bromwich VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Bromwich 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 15 (93.75%) SQL Server
2 14 (87.50%) .NET
3 13 (81.25%) C#
4 12 (75.00%) C++
4 12 (75.00%) Visual Studio
4 12 (75.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 12 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
4 12 (75.00%) OO
4 12 (75.00%) VB6
5 10 (62.50%) Retail
6 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle
6 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
6 3 (18.75%) MS Access
7 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
7 2 (12.50%) VBA
7 2 (12.50%) SQL
7 2 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (12.50%) MS Office
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Windows
7 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) QA
8 1 (6.250%) CMDB
8 1 (6.250%) Silverlight
8 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
8 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
8 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Bromwich 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) Silverlight
2 1 (6.250%) WinForms
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) Middleware
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Maximo
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) MS Access
3 2 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (6.250%) DTS
4 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Visual Studio
1 12 (75.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 10 (62.50%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
1 12 (75.00%) .NET Developer
2 11 (68.75%) C# .NET Developer
2 11 (68.75%) C# Developer
3 1 (6.250%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) SQL DBA
3 1 (6.250%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) DBA
3 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) Data Transformation
4 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.250%) Change Management
4 1 (6.250%) Data Security
4 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.250%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.250%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) C#
2 12 (75.00%) C++
2 12 (75.00%) VB6
3 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 2 (12.50%) VBA
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.250%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft