The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 17 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank - 20 19
Permanent jobs citing VB 0 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Wales - 3.448% 7.229%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 5.882% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 6
Average salary - £23,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
West Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
30 51 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Wales 52.63% 58.62% 57.83%
Number of salaries quoted 26 49 41
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,300 £21,000 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
Wales

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Wales 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 Wales region.

West Wales VB Salary Trend

VB
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Wales 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 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Uniface
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) Informatics
2 1 (33.33%) Health Informatics
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) UML

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Wales 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Informatics
1 1 (33.33%) Health Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Uniface
1 2 (66.67%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript