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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 461 485
Rank change year-on-year -113 +24 +61
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 10 24 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.091% 0.29% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 45
10th Percentile £279 - £336
25th Percentile £286 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £410 £395 £500
90th Percentile £535 £525 £698
UK median daily rate £388 £390 £400
% change year-on-year -0.64% -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 10,978 8,221 10,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.19% 33.77% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,289 5,685 7,931
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £652
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 214 441
10th Percentile £42.44 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -0.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -66 9 £375 -3.85% 2
North of England - 1 £410 - 2
North West - 1 £410 -
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Alphatax
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (10.00%) MS Access
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) ETL Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior ETL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) Entity Framework
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (10.00%) LINQ
3 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) OCR
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) BitLocker
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) UiPath
2 1 (10.00%) ABBYY
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP