VB.NET Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VB.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 129 126
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +36
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.079% 0.050% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.27% 0.14% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £295
25th Percentile £575 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.19%
75th Percentile £625 - £624
90th Percentile - - £624
London median daily rate £425 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -

All Programming Languages
Central London

VB.NET falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 742 734 828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 29.40% 36.85% 35.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 513 579
10th Percentile £400 £376 £411
25th Percentile £460 £445 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £27.50 £22.98 -
25th Percentile £33.07 £26.13 £40.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% -10.27%
75th Percentile £66.56 £63.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £79.13 £71.25 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -22.90%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB.NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

VB.NET job vacancy trend in Central London

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VB.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VB.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -11 2 £600 -
VB.NET
London

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) eggPlant
2 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SilkTest
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) SOAtest
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XBRL
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft