VB.NET Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VB.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 118 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +57
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 0.68% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £660 £295 £481
25th Percentile £663 £400 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -20.07% +33.33%
75th Percentile £713 £624 -
90th Percentile £720 £624 £763
Central London median daily rate £684 £600 £638
% change year-on-year +14.05% -5.96% +13.33%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 616 732 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.13% 34.94% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 467 675
10th Percentile £382 £400 £400
25th Percentile £458 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.83% -
75th Percentile £688 £703 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -0.22% -3.96% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the City of London

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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