Worcestershire VB Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Worcestershire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Daresbury Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Guernsey Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Immingham Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Pewsey Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	35
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.601 %	6.695 %
Salaries quoted	20	14
Average minimum salary	£29,650	£25,267
Average salary	£32,825	£30,400
% change on same period last year	+7.97 %
Average maximum salary	£36,000	£35,533
UK excluding London average salary	£32,839	£33,612
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Programming Languages Worcestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	303	239
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.100 %
Salaries quoted	277	212
Average minimum salary	£31,118	£28,691
Average salary	£33,689	£30,738
% change on same period last year	+9.60 %
Average maximum salary	£36,259	£32,784
UK excluding London average salary	£35,268	£35,641
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VB West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VB across the Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Worcester	-4	11	£33,955	+18.67 %
Redditch	+5	4	£30,500	+32.60 %

VB West Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 62 (72.09 %) .NET 2 53 (61.63 %) SQL 3 52 (60.47 %) VB.NET 4 49 (56.98 %) VB6 5 44 (51.16 %) Oracle 6 37 (43.02 %) HTML 7 30 (34.88 %) Java 7 30 (34.88 %) JavaScript 7 30 (34.88 %) PL/SQL 8 29 (33.72 %) OLAP 8 29 (33.72 %) Oracle OLAP 9 28 (32.56 %) Oracle 9i 9 28 (32.56 %) Oracle 10g 10 22 (25.58 %) SQL Server 11 21 (24.42 %) ASP.NET

12 16 (18.60 %) ASP 12 16 (18.60 %) Microsoft 13 14 (16.28 %) Windows 13 14 (16.28 %) Delphi 14 13 (15.12 %) C# 14 13 (15.12 %) XML 14 13 (15.12 %) MS Excel 15 11 (12.79 %) PHP 16 10 (11.63 %) MySQL 17 8 (9.302 %) XSL 17 8 (9.302 %) RDBMS 17 8 (9.302 %) Project Management 18 7 (8.140 %) OO 18 7 (8.140 %) Billing 19 6 (6.977 %) AJAX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 62 (72.09 %) .NET 2 37 (43.02 %) HTML 3 21 (24.42 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (18.60 %) ASP 5 13 (15.12 %) XML 6 8 (9.302 %) XSL 7 6 (6.977 %) AJAX 8 5 (5.814 %) J2ME 9 4 (4.651 %) CGI 10 2 (2.326 %) WinForms 10 2 (2.326 %) CSS 10 2 (2.326 %) WebServices 10 2 (2.326 %) WCF 10 2 (2.326 %) WPF 10 2 (2.326 %) WF 11 1 (1.163 %) Drupal 11 1 (1.163 %) ODBC 11 1 (1.163 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (1.163 %) DAO 11 1 (1.163 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.163 %) IIS 1 1 (1.163 %) Apache
Applications 1 13 (15.12 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.326 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.163 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.163 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.163 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (1.163 %) GoldMine 1 1 (1.163 %) Line 500
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.163 %) VPN 1 1 (1.163 %) Internet 1 1 (1.163 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (33.72 %) OLAP 1 29 (33.72 %) Oracle OLAP 2 28 (32.56 %) Oracle 9i 2 28 (32.56 %) Oracle 10g 3 22 (25.58 %) SQL Server 4 10 (11.63 %) MySQL 5 8 (9.302 %) RDBMS 6 6 (6.977 %) Crystal Reports 7 4 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (1.163 %) SQLPlus 8 1 (1.163 %) FileMaker 8 1 (1.163 %) GIS 8 1 (1.163 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 3 (3.488 %) Omnis Studio 2 2 (2.326 %) Visual Studio	General 1 7 (8.140 %) Billing 2 6 (6.977 %) Banking 2 6 (6.977 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (4.651 %) Automotive 4 3 (3.488 %) Education 4 3 (3.488 %) Retail 5 2 (2.326 %) Finance 5 2 (2.326 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.163 %) Health 6 1 (1.163 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 69 (80.23 %) Developer 2 29 (33.72 %) Oracle Developer 3 19 (22.09 %) .NET Developer 4 13 (15.12 %) VB.NET Developer 5 9 (10.47 %) Applications Support 6 6 (6.977 %) VB Developer 7 5 (5.814 %) Software Developer 7 5 (5.814 %) VB6 Developer 8 4 (4.651 %) ASP Developer 8 4 (4.651 %) PHP Developer 8 4 (4.651 %) Web Developer 9 3 (3.488 %) Analyst 9 3 (3.488 %) Software Engineer 9 3 (3.488 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (3.488 %) Programmer 9 3 (3.488 %) C# Developer 10 2 (2.326 %) Embedded Software Engineer 10 2 (2.326 %) Senior Developer 10 2 (2.326 %) Embedded C Software Engineer 10 2 (2.326 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.488 %) EPoS 2 2 (2.326 %) Tandem 2 2 (2.326 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.163 %) SCADA 3 1 (1.163 %) Mathematics 3 1 (1.163 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 14 (16.28 %) Windows 2 1 (1.163 %) AIX 2 1 (1.163 %) Linux 2 1 (1.163 %) Windows XP 2 1 (1.163 %) Mac OS X 2 1 (1.163 %) Windows CE 2 1 (1.163 %) Palm OS 2 1 (1.163 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.163 %) Mac OS X Server 2 1 (1.163 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (9.302 %) Project Management 2 7 (8.140 %) OO 3 5 (5.814 %) Software Engineering 4 3 (3.488 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (2.326 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.163 %) Web Design 6 1 (1.163 %) UML 6 1 (1.163 %) OOD 6 1 (1.163 %) Migration 6 1 (1.163 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (1.163 %) Business Development 6 1 (1.163 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 53 (61.63 %) SQL 2 52 (60.47 %) VB.NET 3 49 (56.98 %) VB6 4 30 (34.88 %) PL/SQL 4 30 (34.88 %) Java 4 30 (34.88 %) JavaScript 5 14 (16.28 %) Delphi 6 13 (15.12 %) C# 7 11 (12.79 %) PHP 8 4 (4.651 %) C 8 4 (4.651 %) Embedded C 9 3 (3.488 %) C++ 10 1 (1.163 %) VBA 10 1 (1.163 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 2 (2.326 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.488 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.163 %) Terminal Server 1 1 (1.163 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 44 (51.16 %) Oracle 2 16 (18.60 %) Microsoft 3 6 (6.977 %) Sage 4 2 (2.326 %) Sun 5 1 (1.163 %) Hitachi