VB6 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VB6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 365 416
Rank change year-on-year -32 +51 +89
Contract jobs citing VB6 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.012% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.043% 0.047% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £339 -
25th Percentile £615 £387 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £476 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.28% +0.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £645 £567 £488
90th Percentile - £617 -
UK median daily rate £565 £623 £688
% change year-on-year -9.24% -9.45% +24.43%

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 4,633 4,285 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.48% 25.94% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,012 2,516 3,618
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £568 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 232 340
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.05 £34.06
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.00% -

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VB6 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VB6
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VB6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VB6

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VB6.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VB6

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 24 November 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
Wales +1 1 £630 -1.56%
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
VB6
UK

VB6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (50.00%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ODBC
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) InterSystems
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft