VB Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for VB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VB over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 291 312
Rank change year-on-year +73 +21 -67
Permanent jobs citing VB 95 26 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.82% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.07% 0.72% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 71 14 28
10th Percentile £26,250 - £19,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £24,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +15.65% -8.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,750 - £53,625
England median annual salary £48,375 £56,159 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.86% +18.23% +11.76%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

VB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,095 3,631 4,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.72% 37.62% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,605 1,930 3,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,325 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +10.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,188
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £80,000
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the Midlands

VB
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for VB in the Midlands

VB
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VB in the Midlands

VB
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
East Midlands +35 60 £47,500 +18.75% 6
West Midlands +49 35 £50,000 +11.11% 22
VB
England

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 13 (13.68%) IIS
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) CMS
2 2 (2.11%) Liferay
2 2 (2.11%) Magnolia
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.05%) Azure
2 11 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.11%) npm
3 2 (2.11%) PaaS
3 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.21%) LAN
1 23 (24.21%) WAN
2 2 (2.11%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.11%) DB2
5 2 (2.11%) DTS
5 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.11%) MS Access
5 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Power BI
5 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (23.16%) Visual Studio
2 11 (11.58%) Jasmine
2 11 (11.58%) Karma Test Runner
3 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.26%) JIRA
4 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.11%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.11%) Bower
5 2 (2.11%) gulp
5 2 (2.11%) Moq
6 1 (1.05%) Sourcetree
General
1 12 (12.63%) Manufacturing
2 9 (9.47%) Law
3 7 (7.37%) Advertising
3 7 (7.37%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.21%) Police
5 3 (3.16%) Automotive
6 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Electronics
7 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (65.26%) Developer
2 39 (41.05%) Software Developer
3 14 (14.74%) .NET Developer
3 14 (14.74%) C# Developer
4 8 (8.42%) Embedded Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Embedded Developer
5 6 (6.32%) Embedded Software Developer
6 4 (4.21%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (4.21%) Head of Test
6 4 (4.21%) Project Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Analyst
7 3 (3.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Lead
7 3 (3.16%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (2.11%) Development Manager
8 2 (2.11%) Lead Developer
8 2 (2.11%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.11%) Systems Support
8 2 (2.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (63.16%) .NET
2 43 (45.26%) AngularJS
3 40 (42.11%) HTML
4 36 (37.89%) XML
5 34 (35.79%) ASP.NET
6 33 (34.74%) CSS
7 30 (31.58%) HTML5
8 29 (30.53%) Node.js
8 29 (30.53%) React
9 23 (24.21%) Express.js
10 15 (15.79%) .NET Core
10 15 (15.79%) JSON
10 15 (15.79%) REST
10 15 (15.79%) Web Services
11 14 (14.74%) MFC
12 13 (13.68%) SOAP
13 12 (12.63%) RESTful
14 11 (11.58%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (11.58%) Sass
14 11 (11.58%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (7.37%) SCADA
3 5 (5.26%) CCTV
3 5 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) AIX
2 2 (2.11%) Android
2 2 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.63%) Full Stack Development
2 27 (28.42%) Web Development
3 26 (27.37%) Software Engineering
4 19 (20.00%) DevOps
4 19 (20.00%) MVC
5 18 (18.95%) Agile
6 14 (14.74%) Change Control
6 14 (14.74%) Fault Analysis
7 11 (11.58%) Customer Service
7 11 (11.58%) Unit Testing
7 11 (11.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (9.47%) ERP
8 9 (9.47%) Integration Testing
9 7 (7.37%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 7 (7.37%) Microservices
9 7 (7.37%) Multithreading
9 7 (7.37%) Project Management
10 6 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (5.26%) Project Delivery
12 4 (4.21%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 72 (75.79%) SQL
2 69 (72.63%) C#
3 55 (57.89%) JavaScript
4 32 (33.68%) Python
5 25 (26.32%) PHP
6 24 (25.26%) VB.NET
7 23 (24.21%) JSX
8 22 (23.16%) C
9 19 (20.00%) TypeScript
10 17 (17.89%) VB6
11 14 (14.74%) Assembly Language
12 13 (13.68%) T-SQL
13 10 (10.53%) C++
14 6 (6.32%) VBA
15 5 (5.26%) Ladder Logic
16 4 (4.21%) Java
17 2 (2.11%) Go
17 2 (2.11%) Kotlin
17 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
17 2 (2.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (41.05%) Degree
2 8 (8.42%) HNC
3 5 (5.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (61.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Facebook
2 7 (7.37%) YouTube
3 2 (2.11%) DevExpress
3 2 (2.11%) Epicor
3 2 (2.11%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.11%) OpenText
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle
3 2 (2.11%) Pega
3 2 (2.11%) SAP
3 2 (2.11%) Sitecore
3 2 (2.11%) SYSPRO