VB Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring VB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VB over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 203 296
Rank change year-on-year +1 +93 -39
Permanent jobs citing VB 27 23 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.39% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 1.32% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 19
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,100 -
25th Percentile £43,438 £37,500 £19,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £46,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% +31.43% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £49,500
90th Percentile £86,485 £48,200 £52,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.38% +30.00% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

VB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,533 1,736 3,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.91% 34.20% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,157 2,211
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,970
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VB in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -5 9 £60,000 +71.43%
Staffordshire -18 9 £57,500 +35.29%
Worcestershire -19 4 £40,000 - 4
Shropshire - 4 £46,250 - 3
Warwickshire +7 2 £57,500 +21.05%
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
1 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) PowerApps
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (14.81%) MySQL
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Visual Studio
2 5 (18.52%) Jasmine
2 5 (18.52%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (7.41%) Android Studio
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
2 5 (18.52%) Police
3 4 (14.81%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Automotive
4 2 (7.41%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Head of Test
3 4 (14.81%) Power Apps Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (11.11%) SCADA Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) SCADA Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Industrial Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (74.07%) .NET
2 11 (40.74%) ASP.NET
3 9 (33.33%) XML
4 6 (22.22%) Web Services
5 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
5 5 (18.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 5 (18.52%) JSON
5 5 (18.52%) REST
5 5 (18.52%) RxJS
5 5 (18.52%) Sass
5 5 (18.52%) SOAP
5 5 (18.52%) XML Schema
6 4 (14.81%) Node.js
6 4 (14.81%) React
6 4 (14.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 4 (14.81%) XSLT
6 4 (14.81%) YAML
7 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 3 (11.11%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) SCADA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 6 (22.22%) System Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Customer Service
5 5 (18.52%) MVC
5 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
5 5 (18.52%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Business Strategy
6 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.81%) GitOps
6 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Service Design
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Supplier Management
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.81%) UML
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) C#
2 17 (62.96%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (29.63%) C++
5 7 (25.93%) VB.NET
6 6 (22.22%) VB6
7 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
7 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
8 4 (14.81%) Java
8 4 (14.81%) Python
9 1 (3.70%) Tcl
9 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) SYSPRO