VB6 Contract Job Trends in Telford

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring VB6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VB6 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.51% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile £522 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £490 - -

All Programming Languages
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 222 41 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 37.56% 36.28% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 28 52
10th Percentile £386 £422 £309
25th Percentile £420 £455 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £463 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -13.55% -0.93%
75th Percentile £509 £524 £538
90th Percentile £556 £538 -
Shropshire median daily rate £465 £463 £535
% change year-on-year +0.54% -13.55% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.05 - -
25th Percentile £53.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.25 - -
90th Percentile £59.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £56.00 - -

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

VB6 job vacancy trend in Telford

VB6
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing VB6

VB6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Ingres
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveX
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
1 2 (66.67%) COM
1 2 (66.67%) ODBC
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Actian
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle