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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 439 473
Rank change year-on-year -104 +34 +143
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 17 49 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.052% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 0.55% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 63
10th Percentile £305 - £365
25th Percentile £385 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -
75th Percentile £676 £552 £488
90th Percentile £719 £615 £571
UK median daily rate £390 £390 £400
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -2.44%

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 10,004 8,848 11,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.44% 33.26% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,660 5,653 7,941
10th Percentile £350 £359 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £735 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.42% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 211 465
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £35.57
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -52 15 £390 - 1
South East - 1 £350 - 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 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Bitbucket
1 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Postman
1 3 (17.65%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Investment Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Back Office
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Front Office
5 1 (5.88%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) .NET Developer
3 6 (35.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (35.29%) C# Developer
3 6 (35.29%) C# WPF Developer
3 6 (35.29%) WPF Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
5 2 (11.76%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) VB Developer
6 1 (5.88%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) VB.NET Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) .NET Framework
3 6 (35.29%) WPF
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) LDAP
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) XML
5 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
2 3 (17.65%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (17.65%) Scrum
2 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
2 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
3 2 (11.76%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (11.76%) QA Automation
3 2 (11.76%) RBAC
3 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) VB
4 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
4 6 (35.29%) VBA
5 3 (17.65%) Java
6 2 (11.76%) C++
6 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) UiPath
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) SAP