VB.NET Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VB.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 314 346
Rank change year-on-year -59 +32 +141
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 15 45 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.28% 0.85% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 46
10th Percentile £315 £333 £380
25th Percentile £385 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -
75th Percentile £632 £566 -
90th Percentile £710 £619 £588
England median daily rate £390 £390 £400
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,429 5,316 6,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.77% 38.48% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 3,512 4,862
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 35 68
10th Percentile £25.28 £35.00 £26.68
25th Percentile £36.63 £38.38 £37.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.48% -12.61%
75th Percentile £67.40 £68.00 £61.94
90th Percentile £86.63 £97.50 £72.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB.NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

VB.NET job vacancy trend in London

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VB.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB.NET in London over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VB.NET in London

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VB.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London -7 3 £668 +7.23%
VB.NET
England

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Postman
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Back Office
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) .NET Developer
3 6 (40.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 6 (40.00%) C# WPF Developer
3 6 (40.00%) WPF Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 1 (6.67%) VB Developer
6 1 (6.67%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 6 (40.00%) WPF
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) LDAP
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Agile
1 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (20.00%) Scrum
1 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (13.33%) Change Management
2 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (13.33%) QA Automation
2 2 (13.33%) RBAC
2 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (80.00%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) VB
4 6 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (40.00%) VBA
5 3 (20.00%) Java
6 2 (13.33%) C++
6 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) UiPath
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) SAP