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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 129 135
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +47
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.14% 0.048% 0.039%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £659 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £701 - £775
90th Percentile £715 - -
London median daily rate £450 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +15.38% -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 666 758 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.72% 36.41% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 488 618
10th Percentile £356 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.04%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £758 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £32.14 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £36.75 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 £112.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
London median hourly rate £55.00 £47.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +17.02% -6.93% -12.17%

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 27 February 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 3 £668 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Back Office
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) UiPath
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP