VB6 Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring VB6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VB6 over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 435 626
Rank change year-on-year +94 +191 -119
Contract jobs citing VB6 2 10 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.042% 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.11% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £438 £344
25th Percentile £463 £488 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +30.95% -
75th Percentile £488 £613 £486
90th Percentile - £631 £525
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £468
% change year-on-year -13.64% +17.65% +16.88%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VB6 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,081 8,710 16,774
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.41% 36.50% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 6,426 12,522
10th Percentile £355 £383 £381
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 186 183
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.93 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £51.38
% change year-on-year +2.97% +18.15% +14.80%

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