VB.NET Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VB.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 453 480
Rank change year-on-year -111 +27 +112
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 11 35 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.031% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.10% 0.41% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 58
10th Percentile £285 - £371
25th Percentile £385 £385 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +49.68% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £703 £395 £469
90th Percentile £728 £531 £525
UK median daily rate £575 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +47.44% -2.50% -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,541 8,631 11,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.67% 33.61% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,042 5,651 7,952
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 212 469
10th Percentile £41.76 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in England

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB.NET in England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VB.NET in England

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

VB.NET
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -58 10 £500 +28.21% 3
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Postman
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Investment Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Back Office
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Front Office
5 1 (9.09%) Advertising
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# WPF Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) WPF Developer
4 1 (9.09%) VB Developer
4 1 (9.09%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) LDAP
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) WPF
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Agile
1 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (27.27%) Prototyping
1 3 (27.27%) Rapid Prototyping
1 3 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Scrum
1 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
1 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
2 2 (18.18%) RBAC
2 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) VB
4 2 (18.18%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) VBA
5 1 (9.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
1 3 (27.27%) UiPath
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) SAP