VB6 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VB6 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VB6 over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 450 615
Rank change year-on-year +107 +165 -125
Contract jobs citing VB6 2 9 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.036% 0.016%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.040% 0.098% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile - £456 £319
25th Percentile £463 £522 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £395
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +45.57% -
75th Percentile £488 £620 £435
90th Percentile - £632 £490
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £436
% change year-on-year -13.64% +26.07% +2.65%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VB6 is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,006 9,200 16,811
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.98% 37.12% 38.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 6,765 12,505
10th Percentile £356 £389 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 188
10th Percentile £33.13 £27.83 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £60.70 £50.20
% change year-on-year +2.85% +20.92% +18.12%

VB6
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VB6 trend for jobs with a WFH option

VB6
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB6.

VB6 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VB6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Infragistics
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle