VB6 Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring VB6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VB6 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.35% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
North West median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 51 28 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 17.96% 16.37% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 6
10th Percentile £282 £453 £506
25th Percentile £438 £511 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -12.16% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £601 £644
90th Percentile £561 £615 £650
North West median daily rate £465 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -1.59% -0.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 13
10th Percentile £41.94 £46.25 £39.28
25th Percentile £46.80 £53.38 £45.88
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% +41.84% +13.77%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £48.43
90th Percentile - - £49.69
North West median hourly rate £64.57 £72.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year -10.94% +49.70% +19.32%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

VB6 job vacancy trend in Lancashire

VB6
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing VB6

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing VB6

VB6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Robot
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle