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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 327 357
Rank change year-on-year -81 +30 +74
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 9 23 38
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.051% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.46% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 31
10th Percentile £278 - £375
25th Percentile £285 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £425 £395 £494
90th Percentile £553 £471 £750
England median daily rate £375 £390 £400
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 5,721 4,975 6,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.25% 39.54% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,883 3,493 4,919
10th Percentile £363 £380 £380
25th Percentile £431 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £768 £825 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 57
10th Percentile £34.20 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.44 £35.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -11.88% -12.17%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.81 £61.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.38 £70.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% +4.17%

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 2 May 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 2 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
Central London - 1 £668 -
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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Alphatax
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (11.11%) MS Access
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) ETL Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior ETL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) LINQ
3 1 (11.11%) Regular Expression
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Code
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Application Packaging
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (11.11%) OCR
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) BitLocker
1 2 (22.22%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) UiPath
2 1 (11.11%) ABBYY
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP