VB Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 217 256
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 -25
Permanent jobs citing VB 38 30 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.51% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.37% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 29 22
10th Percentile £49,300 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £52,000 £45,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £51,350 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +14.11% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £74,250 £59,425
South East median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +7.53% +3.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,971 2,196 3,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.62% 39.43% 44.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,340 1,891
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,019 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +10.34% +10.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,125 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire +15 34 £56,525 +10.08% 7
Buckinghamshire - 4 £50,000 -
VB
South East

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 19 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) Azure
1 25 (65.79%) Azure Monitor
1 25 (65.79%) Entra ID
2 20 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (50.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (65.79%) DHCP
1 25 (65.79%) DNS
2 19 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) AdminStudio
1 8 (21.05%) InstallShield
1 8 (21.05%) MSI
General
1 33 (86.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (65.79%) Active Directory Specialist
1 25 (65.79%) Azure Specialist
2 19 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
2 19 (50.00%) Support Specialist
3 8 (21.05%) Applications Packager
3 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared Application Packager
4 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Applications Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (2.63%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 5 (13.16%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.63%) SPFx
3 1 (2.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 27 (71.05%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (65.79%) PKI
3 8 (21.05%) Shadow IT
4 4 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (89.47%) Windows
2 25 (65.79%) Windows Server
3 19 (50.00%) Linux
3 19 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 19 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (21.05%) Windows 10
4 8 (21.05%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) Release Management
2 27 (71.05%) Agile
2 27 (71.05%) ITIL
2 27 (71.05%) Service Management
3 25 (65.79%) Analytics
3 25 (65.79%) Log Analytics
4 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (50.00%) DevOps
4 19 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 19 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 19 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 19 (50.00%) RBAC
5 8 (21.05%) Application Packaging
5 8 (21.05%) Data Analysis
5 8 (21.05%) ITSM
5 8 (21.05%) Migration
5 8 (21.05%) Project Management
5 8 (21.05%) Software Deployment
5 8 (21.05%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 34 (89.47%) C#
2 33 (86.84%) PowerShell
3 25 (65.79%) VBScript
4 19 (50.00%) Bicep
5 5 (13.16%) SQL
6 4 (10.53%) C++
6 4 (10.53%) VB.NET
6 4 (10.53%) VB6
Qualifications
1 33 (86.84%) DV Cleared
1 33 (86.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (71.05%) Degree
3 20 (52.63%) SC Cleared
4 19 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 33 (86.84%) Active Directory
2 19 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (21.05%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (71.05%) SCCM
1 27 (71.05%) WSUS
2 25 (65.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (89.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) Autodesk
2 8 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 8 (21.05%) VMware