The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 19 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 27 68 68
Rank change year-on-year
+41 0
Permanent jobs citing VB 59 23 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 6.556% 2.162% 1.606%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.36% 4.423% 3.109%
Number of salaries quoted 58 23 17
Average salary £36,500 £36,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +28.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,200 £23,400
10% offered a salary of more than £45,750 £40,400 £40,400
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
411 520 579
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 45.67% 48.87% 51.65%
Number of salaries quoted 349 445 541
Average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £44,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
South West

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Wiltshire VB Salary Histogram

VB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Swindon +38 55 £36,500 +58.69% 6
Chippenham +4 2 £32,500 -7.14%
Salisbury - 1 £55,000 -
VB
South West

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 69 (75.00%) SQL
2 65 (70.65%) .NET
3 58 (63.04%) SQL Server
4 43 (46.74%) VB6
5 40 (43.48%) VB.NET
6 31 (33.70%) C#
7 27 (29.35%) MS Office
7 27 (29.35%) XML
7 27 (29.35%) MS Excel
8 26 (28.26%) OO
8 26 (28.26%) SQL Server 2005
9 22 (23.91%) Windows
9 22 (23.91%) T-SQL
10 20 (21.74%) WPF
11 17 (18.48%) SQL Server 2008
11 17 (18.48%) VBScript
12 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
13 14 (15.22%) QA
13 14 (15.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
14 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
14 13 (14.13%) OOP
14 13 (14.13%) SQL Server 2000
14 13 (14.13%) Validation
15 12 (13.04%) Change Management
15 12 (13.04%) OOD
15 12 (13.04%) Crystal Reports
15 12 (13.04%) WFM
16 11 (11.96%) VBA
16 11 (11.96%) QuickTest Pro

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 65 (70.65%) .NET
2 27 (29.35%) XML
3 20 (21.74%) WPF
4 8 (8.696%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.435%) Spring.NET
6 4 (4.348%) HTML
6 4 (4.348%) WinForms
6 4 (4.348%) LINQ to SQL
6 4 (4.348%) Castle Windsor
6 4 (4.348%) Ninject
6 4 (4.348%) LINQ
6 4 (4.348%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (3.261%) Ajax
7 3 (3.261%) jQuery
7 3 (3.261%) WCF
7 3 (3.261%) Web Services
7 3 (3.261%) ADO.NET
7 3 (3.261%) CSS
8 2 (2.174%) LAMP
9 1 (1.087%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.348%) IIS
1 4 (4.348%) IBM Notes
2 2 (2.174%) Apache
3 1 (1.087%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (29.35%) MS Office
1 27 (29.35%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.174%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.261%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 3 (3.261%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.087%) RFID
1 1 (1.087%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (63.04%) SQL Server
2 26 (28.26%) SQL Server 2005
3 17 (18.48%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (15.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (14.13%) SQL Server 2000
6 12 (13.04%) Crystal Reports
7 9 (9.783%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.609%) MS Access
9 6 (6.522%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (4.348%) MySQL
11 3 (3.261%) SAP BW
11 3 (3.261%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) QuickTest Pro
2 8 (8.696%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.435%) Moq
3 5 (5.435%) NUnit
4 4 (4.348%) MSTest
4 4 (4.348%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.087%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.087%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 1 (1.087%) StyleCop
5 1 (1.087%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (5.435%) Marketing
2 4 (4.348%) Finance
2 4 (4.348%) Legal
3 3 (3.261%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.087%) Automotive
4 1 (1.087%) Electronics
4 1 (1.087%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (61.96%) Developer
2 29 (31.52%) .NET Developer
3 23 (25.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 13 (14.13%) Programmer
5 12 (13.04%) Analyst
6 9 (9.783%) VB Developer
7 8 (8.696%) DBA
7 8 (8.696%) VB.NET Programmer
7 8 (8.696%) .NET Programmer
8 7 (7.609%) Report Developer
8 7 (7.609%) Administrator
8 7 (7.609%) Crystal Reports Developer
9 6 (6.522%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.522%) Software Test Engineer
9 6 (6.522%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.435%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.348%) Junior
11 4 (4.348%) Developer Analyst
11 4 (4.348%) Test Analyst
12 3 (3.261%) MI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
2 4 (4.348%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (3.261%) FMCG
4 1 (1.087%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.087%) Open Source
4 1 (1.087%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.087%) Tandem
4 1 (1.087%) Biometrics
4 1 (1.087%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.91%) Windows
2 4 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (4.348%) Windows XP
3 3 (3.261%) UNIX
4 2 (2.174%) Solaris
4 2 (2.174%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) OO
2 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
2 13 (14.13%) OOP
2 13 (14.13%) Validation
3 12 (13.04%) Change Management
3 12 (13.04%) OOD
3 12 (13.04%) WFM
4 10 (10.87%) Automated Testing
5 9 (9.783%) Time Management
5 9 (9.783%) Data Migration
5 9 (9.783%) Migration
5 9 (9.783%) CRM
6 8 (8.696%) Scrum
6 8 (8.696%) Manual Testing
7 7 (7.609%) ETL
7 7 (7.609%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (6.522%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (5.435%) MVVM
9 5 (5.435%) Test Scripting
9 5 (5.435%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (75.00%) SQL
2 43 (46.74%) VB6
3 40 (43.48%) VB.NET
4 31 (33.70%) C#
5 22 (23.91%) T-SQL
6 17 (18.48%) VBScript
7 11 (11.96%) VBA
8 5 (5.435%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.261%) Java
10 2 (2.174%) PHP
11 1 (1.087%) XAML
11 1 (1.087%) C
11 1 (1.087%) Perl
11 1 (1.087%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (10.87%) Degree
2 6 (6.522%) ISEB
2 6 (6.522%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.435%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.348%) MCP
4 4 (4.348%) MCAD
4 4 (4.348%) MCSD
4 4 (4.348%) MCTS
5 3 (3.261%) CIMA
5 3 (3.261%) ACCA
5 3 (3.261%) PMP
6 1 (1.087%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.087%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) QA
2 3 (3.261%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.348%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.435%) Salesforce.com
3 4 (4.348%) Oracle
3 4 (4.348%) Lotus
3 4 (4.348%) HP
3 4 (4.348%) QAD
4 3 (3.261%) SAP
4 3 (3.261%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.174%) Sun
6 1 (1.087%) Infragistics
Swindon, Wiltshire
Technical Skills Crystal Reports MSSQL 2005, 2008 TSQL (demonstrable use of Stored procedures, Triggers etc.) Some VB6 and/or C# knowledge .NET 3.5/4.0 XML Main...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Experienced in change management procedures... Experienced in all relevant phases of software testing and validation... Technical Skills MSSQL 2005, 2008 (2012 would be an added bonus) Transact SQL (...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
To develop and maintain some Manual test scripts in HP QC to supplement the test AUTOMATION scripts. • Mentor other QA staff in the use of HP QTP, test...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
You will ensure the quality of our products by generating and executing product functionality tests, identifying and reporting issues as part of a cross-functional project team.Main...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £34,000 + Bonus: Up to 8% + VG benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
Key Words: manual execution test cases test complex application component Writing amending functionality software specifications projects Detailed knowledge testing responsibilities processes Development Lifecycle written reports activities opportunities risks...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £30,000 Bonus: Up to 8% + VG Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013