VB6 Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 348 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VB6 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £605 - £363
% change year-on-year - - -13.69%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in London

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VB6 in London

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in London

VB6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (40.00%) MS Access
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VB Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) VB Developer
3 1 (20.00%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ODBC
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Dapper ORM
2 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) VB
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) MUMPS
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) InterSystems
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft