Also see here :
http://www.sap-img.com/the-top-it-skills-to-have.htm
The top ten IT skills to have for the next few years
This is not a scientific survey, but merely the opinions of a few agents that we asked. If you have a highly valued skill that isn’t on here, don’t worry, this is not definitive, but merely the opinions of a few agents. I’m sure if we’d polled others the list might have been slightly different.
Skills on the Up
We polled a number of agents and other sources of information and came up with the following skills that are likely to be on the up over the next few years. Anyone with these skills is likely to be employed, at good rates, even taking into account offshore outsourcing and Fast Track Visa Workers.
1. J2EE
2. .Net
3. C#
4. Project Management
5. Oracle
6. SAP
7. Business Analysis
8. VB.net
9. NT Novell
10. Java
NOTE: It won’t harm you to put your career in mastering Microsoft tools. Three of the top 10 skills are Microsoft technology related ( .NET, C# and VB.net ).
The fact that VB is still going up disgusts me. What was kept around to lure VB programmers to .NET so they can be weaned off onto a real language is actually being used for real production. It can’t even natively multi-thread.
It’s just strange that any company would seriously consider programming any new application in VB. Use the skill for maintenance maybe, but rewrite it as they go if they’re smart, to c# if staying on Windows.
/rant
Given that they are practcally the same thing, I don't know if that says much. C# and VB.net are .NET, and the differences between C# and vb.net are just syntactical sugar at the highest level.