West Midlands VB Developer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the VB Developer role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Corby Coventry Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Ilford Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Maldon Manchester Mansfield Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Milton Newport Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pewsey Portsmouth Preston Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Taunton Thames Valley Thetford Thirsk Trowbridge UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	169	125
Rank change on same period last year	-44
Matching permanent IT job ads	53	101
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	0.683 %	1.210 %
Salaries quoted	51	94
Average minimum salary	£27,034	£26,208
Average salary	£29,741	£27,865
% change on same period last year	+6.73 %
Average maximum salary	£32,448	£29,521
UK excluding London average salary	£31,285	£31,780
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	7756	8345
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.292 %	3.500 %
Salaries quoted	6604	7255
Average minimum salary	£32,846	£33,931
Average salary	£35,714	£36,685
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Average maximum salary	£38,583	£39,438
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
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VB Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

VB Developer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VB Developer across the West Midlands region.

VB Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Worcestershire	-	12	£30,500	-
Birmingham	+8	12	£25,708	-21.38 %
Coventry	-34	9	£25,500	+2.24 %
Shropshire	-	8	£27,500	-
Herefordshire	-5	7	£40,143	+45.97 %
Staffordshire	-4	5	£30,200	-7.07 %
Warwickshire	-17	4	£33,750	+4.68 %
Sutton Coldfield	-10	1	£34,000	+70.00 %

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VB Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited VB 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 VB Developer in their job title.

1 115 (100.00 %) VB 2 91 (79.13 %) .NET 3 65 (56.52 %) VB6 4 62 (53.91 %) SQL Server 5 55 (47.83 %) ASP 6 48 (41.74 %) VB.NET 7 47 (40.87 %) ASP.NET 8 45 (39.13 %) SQL 9 36 (31.30 %) C# 10 25 (21.74 %) Microsoft 11 24 (20.87 %) XML 12 18 (15.65 %) Finance 13 17 (14.78 %) XSL 14 15 (13.04 %) Pensions 15 14 (12.17 %) Crystal Reports

15 14 (12.17 %) HTML 16 12 (10.43 %) JavaScript 16 12 (10.43 %) Health 17 11 (9.565 %) PL/SQL 18 10 (8.696 %) Oracle 18 10 (8.696 %) Education 19 9 (7.826 %) SQL Server 2005 20 8 (6.957 %) Business Analysis 20 8 (6.957 %) Micro Focus 20 8 (6.957 %) COBOL 20 8 (6.957 %) HPUX 21 6 (5.217 %) CSS 21 6 (5.217 %) SQL Server 2000 22 5 (4.348 %) MS Excel 22 5 (4.348 %) Java

VB Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited VB 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 VB Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 91 (79.13 %) .NET 2 55 (47.83 %) ASP 3 47 (40.87 %) ASP.NET 4 24 (20.87 %) XML 5 17 (14.78 %) XSL 6 14 (12.17 %) HTML 7 6 (5.217 %) CSS 8 5 (4.348 %) .NET Framework 9 4 (3.478 %) ADO 10 3 (2.609 %) COM 11 2 (1.739 %) COM+ 12 1 (0.870 %) WebServices 12 1 (0.870 %) Silverlight 12 1 (0.870 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.870 %) IIS 1 1 (0.870 %) MTS
Applications 1 5 (4.348 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 62 (53.91 %) SQL Server 2 14 (12.17 %) Crystal Reports 3 9 (7.826 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (5.217 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (3.478 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 1 (0.870 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 18 (15.65 %) Finance 2 15 (13.04 %) Pensions 3 12 (10.43 %) Health 4 10 (8.696 %) Education 5 4 (3.478 %) Banking 6 3 (2.609 %) Billing 6 3 (2.609 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (1.739 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.739 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.870 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.739 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.870 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 8 (6.957 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (6.957 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (1.739 %) Web Development 2 2 (1.739 %) Scrum 2 2 (1.739 %) Penetration Testing 3 1 (0.870 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (0.870 %) Workflow 3 1 (0.870 %) Migration 3 1 (0.870 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 115 (100.00 %) VB 2 65 (56.52 %) VB6 3 48 (41.74 %) VB.NET 4 45 (39.13 %) SQL 5 36 (31.30 %) C# 6 12 (10.43 %) JavaScript 7 11 (9.565 %) PL/SQL 8 8 (6.957 %) COBOL 9 5 (4.348 %) Java 10 4 (3.478 %) VBScript 11 3 (2.609 %) VBA 12 2 (1.739 %) DHTML 12 2 (1.739 %) C++ 13 1 (0.870 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (3.478 %) MCSD 1 4 (3.478 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (1.739 %) MCP 2 2 (1.739 %) MCAD	System Software 1 2 (1.739 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 25 (21.74 %) Microsoft 2 10 (8.696 %) Oracle 3 8 (6.957 %) Micro Focus 4 1 (0.870 %) Sybase 4 1 (0.870 %) TIBCO