Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VB.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 689 572 629
Rank change year-on-year -117 +57 +63
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 50 87 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.62% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 41 80 250
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,456 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £89,550 £63,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%

All Programming Languages
UK

VB.NET 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,554 13,954 33,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.88% 31.52% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,645 9,172 25,600
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,364 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,125 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VB.NET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the UK

VB.NET
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VB.NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB.NET over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
England -98 45 £55,000 +10.00% 14
UK excluding London -92 27 £50,000 +11.11% 17
London -32 21 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Work from Home -41 17 £65,000 +30.00% 7
South East -40 8 £47,000 +10.59% 7
North of England -36 6 £50,000 +8.11%
North West +17 4 £43,750 -16.67%
Midlands -28 4 £47,625 -4.75% 2
East of England -21 3 £57,500 +43.75% 5
South West -67 3 £55,000 +8.91%
West Midlands -29 2 - - 1
East Midlands -34 2 £47,625 +5.83% 1
Yorkshire -43 2 £55,000 +29.41%
Scotland - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) IIS
2 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 3 (6.00%) JBoss
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.00%) Sage 200
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.00%) Firebase
6 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) WinSCP
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (4.00%) DHCP
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (4.00%) Internet
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (22.00%) Db2
3 11 (22.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (10.00%) MySQL
4 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.00%) Power BI
6 2 (4.00%) SQLite
7 1 (2.00%) DTS
7 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (44.00%) Finance
2 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Retail
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Local Government
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Developer
2 16 (32.00%) Applications Support
3 14 (28.00%) .NET Developer
4 13 (26.00%) Senior
5 10 (20.00%) Analyst
5 10 (20.00%) Support Analyst
6 8 (16.00%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (14.00%) Senior Applications Support
7 7 (14.00%) VB.NET Developer
8 5 (10.00%) .NET Applications Developer
8 5 (10.00%) .NET Web Applications Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Applications Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Blazor Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Systems Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Web Applications Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Software Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (18.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (18.00%) WinForms
3 7 (14.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (12.00%) Entity Framework
4 6 (12.00%) Web Services
5 5 (10.00%) Blazor
6 4 (8.00%) Node.js
6 4 (8.00%) XML
7 3 (6.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (6.00%) CSS
7 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.00%) HTML
7 3 (6.00%) LDAP
7 3 (6.00%) RESTful
8 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (4.00%) JSON
8 2 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Eurex
3 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (46.00%) Windows
2 9 (18.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.00%) Android
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Solaris
3 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
2 11 (22.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 11 (22.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 9 (18.00%) Agile
4 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.00%) DevOps
5 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.00%) User Experience
7 5 (10.00%) ETL
7 5 (10.00%) Microservices
7 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.00%) Web Application Development
8 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.00%) Data Integration
8 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (8.00%) ITSM
8 4 (8.00%) Release Management
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) C#
2 23 (46.00%) SQL
3 11 (22.00%) PL/SQL
4 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) Python
6 3 (6.00%) VB
6 3 (6.00%) VBA
7 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Java
8 1 (2.00%) RPG
8 1 (2.00%) VB6
8 1 (2.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) MCDST
2 2 (4.00%) MCITP
2 2 (4.00%) MCSA
2 2 (4.00%) MCSE
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) HND
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
1 3 (6.00%) QA
1 3 (6.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.00%) Adobe
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) CQG
4 2 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) ION Trading
4 2 (4.00%) Patsystems
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.00%) Reuters
4 2 (4.00%) Trayport
4 2 (4.00%) UiPath
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.00%) DevExpress
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) Sage
5 1 (2.00%) SAP