VB6 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 335 - 450
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing VB6 1 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.027% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £312
25th Percentile - - £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £544
UK median daily rate £605 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -5.04%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Scotland - 1 £550 -
VB6
UK

VB6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware