The first table below looks at the demand for VB skills in IT jobs advertised for the York region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 24 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 York region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Rank 54 43 26
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -17
Permanent jobs citing VB 4 17 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 0.962% 4.048% 7.452%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.724% 5.782% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 26
Average salary £30,000 £32,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +28.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £26,250 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £35,000 £33,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Programming Languages
York
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
232 294 231
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 55.77% 70.00% 55.53%
Number of salaries quoted 171 225 189
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £42,000 £56,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VB
North Yorkshire

VB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York VB Salary Trend

VB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VB across the York region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

York VB Salary Histogram

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 28 (96.55%) SQL Server
2 27 (93.10%) .NET
3 19 (65.52%) C#
4 17 (58.62%) VB.NET
5 16 (55.17%) ASP.NET
6 11 (37.93%) SQL
6 11 (37.93%) TDD
6 11 (37.93%) WCF
6 11 (37.93%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (34.48%) Node.js
7 10 (34.48%) Ninject
7 10 (34.48%) KnockoutJS
7 10 (34.48%) Web Application Development
7 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 10 (34.48%) Streaming Music
7 10 (34.48%) Music
7 10 (34.48%) MCTS
7 10 (34.48%) Domain-Driven Design
7 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (34.48%) Dependency Injection
7 10 (34.48%) MVC
7 10 (34.48%) MCP
7 10 (34.48%) MCAD
7 10 (34.48%) MCSD
7 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
8 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
9 8 (27.59%) Visual Studio
10 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (20.69%) BizTalk Server

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 27 (93.10%) .NET
2 16 (55.17%) ASP.NET
3 11 (37.93%) WCF
4 10 (34.48%) Node.js
4 10 (34.48%) Ninject
4 10 (34.48%) KnockoutJS
4 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (20.69%) jQuery
5 6 (20.69%) Silverlight
5 6 (20.69%) JSON
6 3 (10.34%) CSS
6 3 (10.34%) XML
6 3 (10.34%) HTML
6 3 (10.34%) WinForms
7 1 (3.448%) Flash
7 1 (3.448%) XSLT
7 1 (3.448%) Ajax
7 1 (3.448%) LINQ
7 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.448%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.448%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.897%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (96.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (6.897%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.897%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.448%) DTS
5 1 (3.448%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (3.448%) MySQL
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (34.48%) Music
Job Titles
1 27 (93.10%) Developer
2 17 (58.62%) .NET Developer
3 9 (31.03%) Systems Developer
4 5 (17.24%) VB.NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.897%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.448%) VB6 Developer
7 1 (3.448%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.448%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.448%) Installations Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) VB Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.448%) DBA
7 1 (3.448%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (34.48%) Streaming Music
3 1 (3.448%) Replication
3 1 (3.448%) Clustering
3 1 (3.448%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.448%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) TDD
2 10 (34.48%) Web Application Development
2 10 (34.48%) Domain-Driven Design
2 10 (34.48%) Dependency Injection
2 10 (34.48%) MVC
3 6 (20.69%) CRM
4 4 (13.79%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
5 3 (10.34%) Project Management
5 3 (10.34%) Migration
6 2 (6.897%) Web Development
7 1 (3.448%) OO
7 1 (3.448%) Content Management
7 1 (3.448%) Document Management
7 1 (3.448%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (3.448%) Change Management
7 1 (3.448%) Scrum
7 1 (3.448%) Extreme Programming
7 1 (3.448%) SEO
7 1 (3.448%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) C#
2 17 (58.62%) VB.NET
3 11 (37.93%) SQL
4 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
5 3 (10.34%) VBScript
6 2 (6.897%) VB6
7 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.448%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) MCTS
1 10 (34.48%) MCP
1 10 (34.48%) MCAD
1 10 (34.48%) MCSD
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 1 (3.448%) Kofax