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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 3 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 0.63% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £660 £295 £485
25th Percentile £663 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -5.96% +20.00%
75th Percentile £713 £624 £750
90th Percentile £720 £624 £758
London median daily rate £390 £390 £400
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -20.00%

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 663 793 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.68% 33.85% 35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 517 760
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £477 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £688 £703 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
London median daily rate £550 £565 £590
% change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £22.98 £38.35 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.13 £40.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +38.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £112.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - £45.15
London median hourly rate £43.50 £49.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.12% -10.00% -4.35%

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 24 October 2025. 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 +8 3 £684 +14.05% 6
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%) CI/CD
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%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
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 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) 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