VB6 Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VB6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VB6 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 - 643
Rank change year-on-year - - +116
Contract jobs citing VB6 8 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% - 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.097% - 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - £310
25th Percentile £450 - £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.69%
75th Percentile £630 - £400
90th Percentile £632 - £441
UK median daily rate £605 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -5.04%

All Programming Languages
England

VB6 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 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in England

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB6 in England.

Daily rate trend for VB6 in England

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB6 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB6 in England

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB6 in England.

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in England

VB6
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 VB6 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London - 5 £450 - 2
VB6
UK

VB6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 3 (37.50%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (37.50%) MS Access
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) VB Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VB Developer
3 1 (12.50%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ODBC
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Dapper ORM
2 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) VB
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) MUMPS
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) InterSystems
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft