VB6 Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VB6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 510 561
Rank change year-on-year -37 +51 +188
Contract jobs citing VB6 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.031% 0.050% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £361 £523
25th Percentile - £442 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £688
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -12.00% +21.15%
75th Percentile - £641 £700
90th Percentile - £647 -
UK median daily rate £565 £623 £688
% change year-on-year -9.24% -9.45% +24.43%

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 9,692 10,060 12,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.03% 32.31% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 6,509 8,856
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 268 413
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.71
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.89 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.00% -

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB6 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

VB6 job vacancy trend in England

VB6
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VB6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VB6

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VB6.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VB6

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 24 November 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 -12 2 £500 -21.88%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
VB6
UK

VB6
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VB Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) InterSystems