Worcestershire VB.NET Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) 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.NET over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Seaford Selby Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	14
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	144	48
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	34.45 %	20.69 %
Salaries quoted	142	47
Average minimum salary	£29,407	£26,225
Average salary	£31,417	£29,392
% change on same period last year	+6.88 %
Average maximum salary	£33,428	£32,559
UK excluding London average salary	£33,140	£32,824
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Programming Languages Worcestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	418	232
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.220 %	0.095 %
Salaries quoted	375	203
Average minimum salary	£30,675	£27,726
Average salary	£33,032	£30,152
% change on same period last year	+9.54 %
Average maximum salary	£35,389	£32,579
UK excluding London average salary	£35,183	£35,555
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VB.NET West Midlands

VB.NET
Demand Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB.NET across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

VB.NET
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 24 July 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	+6	81	£31,900	+6.11 %
Redditch	+9	11	£30,273	+26.13 %
Kidderminster	-	3	£35,000	-
Droitwich	-	1	-	-

VB.NET West Midlands

VB.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire region citing VB.NET 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.NET.

1 225 (100.00 %) .NET 2 168 (74.67 %) ASP.NET 3 127 (56.44 %) C# 4 114 (50.67 %) JavaScript 5 108 (48.00 %) Finance 6 95 (42.22 %) SQL 7 90 (40.00 %) Java 8 81 (36.00 %) SQL Server 9 72 (32.00 %) HTML 10 62 (27.56 %) Insurance 11 60 (26.67 %) Web Development 12 56 (24.89 %) VB 12 56 (24.89 %) Windows 13 52 (23.11 %) Transact-SQL 14 51 (22.67 %) Degree

15 42 (18.67 %) VB6 15 42 (18.67 %) WebServices 16 38 (16.89 %) SQL Server 2005 16 38 (16.89 %) OO 17 33 (14.67 %) Oracle 18 32 (14.22 %) PL/SQL 19 31 (13.78 %) E-Commerce 20 30 (13.33 %) Microsoft 21 29 (12.89 %) OLAP 21 29 (12.89 %) CSS 21 29 (12.89 %) Oracle OLAP 22 28 (12.44 %) Oracle 10g 22 28 (12.44 %) Oracle 9i 23 27 (12.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 24 26 (11.56 %) OOA/OOD

VB.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire region citing VB.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 225 (100.00 %) .NET 2 168 (74.67 %) ASP.NET 3 72 (32.00 %) HTML 4 42 (18.67 %) WebServices 5 29 (12.89 %) CSS 6 27 (12.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 26 (11.56 %) XML 8 23 (10.22 %) NetBeans 9 18 (8.000 %) AJAX 10 9 (4.000 %) ASP 11 7 (3.111 %) WinForms 11 7 (3.111 %) XHTML 12 6 (2.667 %) .NET Framework 13 3 (1.333 %) XSLT 14 2 (0.889 %) WCF 14 2 (0.889 %) WPF 14 2 (0.889 %) WF 14 2 (0.889 %) Silverlight 14 2 (0.889 %) JSP 14 2 (0.889 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 6 (2.667 %) IIS 2 1 (0.444 %) CMS
Applications 1 9 (4.000 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.444 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.444 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 9 (4.000 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 81 (36.00 %) SQL Server 2 38 (16.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 29 (12.89 %) Oracle OLAP 3 29 (12.89 %) OLAP 4 28 (12.44 %) Oracle 9i 4 28 (12.44 %) Oracle 10g 5 16 (7.111 %) SQL Server 2000 6 8 (3.556 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 3 (1.333 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (0.889 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 1 (0.444 %) MySQL 9 1 (0.444 %) GIS 9 1 (0.444 %) RDBMS 9 1 (0.444 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 23 (10.22 %) Dreamweaver 2 9 (4.000 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (1.333 %) Omnis Studio 4 1 (0.444 %) Flash	General 1 108 (48.00 %) Finance 2 62 (27.56 %) Insurance 3 21 (9.333 %) Pensions 4 14 (6.222 %) Health 5 7 (3.111 %) Retail 5 7 (3.111 %) Billing 6 2 (0.889 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.444 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.444 %) Education 7 1 (0.444 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 221 (98.22 %) Developer 2 113 (50.22 %) .NET Developer 3 54 (24.00 %) Software Developer 4 46 (20.44 %) VB.NET Developer 5 41 (18.22 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 30 (13.33 %) Lead Developer 7 29 (12.89 %) Oracle Developer 8 21 (9.333 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 17 (7.556 %) C# Developer 10 15 (6.667 %) Web Developer 11 14 (6.222 %) Junior 11 14 (6.222 %) Junior Developer 11 14 (6.222 %) .NET Web Developer 11 14 (6.222 %) Junior .NET Developer 12 13 (5.778 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 13 10 (4.444 %) C# Web Developer 14 5 (2.222 %) SQL Developer 15 3 (1.333 %) Applications Developer 15 3 (1.333 %) Senior Developer 15 3 (1.333 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (2.667 %) N-Tier 2 5 (2.222 %) EPoS 3 3 (1.333 %) Mainframe 3 3 (1.333 %) Mathematics 4 2 (0.889 %) Client/Server 4 2 (0.889 %) Tandem 5 1 (0.444 %) Chip and PIN 5 1 (0.444 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 56 (24.89 %) Windows 2 23 (10.22 %) Linux 3 2 (0.889 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 60 (26.67 %) Web Development 2 38 (16.89 %) OO 3 31 (13.78 %) E-Commerce 4 26 (11.56 %) OOA/OOD 5 9 (4.000 %) Project Management 6 8 (3.556 %) E-business 7 6 (2.667 %) Performance Management 8 3 (1.333 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (0.889 %) OOD 9 2 (0.889 %) UML 9 2 (0.889 %) Scrum 10 1 (0.444 %) Web Design 10 1 (0.444 %) Agile Software Development 10 1 (0.444 %) Knowledge Management 10 1 (0.444 %) Strategic Management 10 1 (0.444 %) Migration 10 1 (0.444 %) Time Management 10 1 (0.444 %) OOP 10 1 (0.444 %) Service Delivery 10 1 (0.444 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 127 (56.44 %) C# 2 114 (50.67 %) JavaScript 3 95 (42.22 %) SQL 4 90 (40.00 %) Java 5 56 (24.89 %) VB 6 52 (23.11 %) Transact-SQL 7 42 (18.67 %) VB6 8 32 (14.22 %) PL/SQL 9 23 (10.22 %) VC++ 9 23 (10.22 %) C++ 10 5 (2.222 %) Delphi 11 3 (1.333 %) C 11 3 (1.333 %) PHP 12 2 (0.889 %) Embedded C 12 2 (0.889 %) Assembly Language 13 1 (0.444 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 51 (22.67 %) Degree 2 16 (7.111 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (0.889 %) CIW 4 1 (0.444 %) MCAD 4 1 (0.444 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.333 %) QA 2 1 (0.444 %) WAI	Vendors 1 33 (14.67 %) Oracle 2 30 (13.33 %) Microsoft 3 5 (2.222 %) Sage 4 2 (0.889 %) Sun 5 1 (0.444 %) Adobe