VB.NET Contracts

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VB.NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VB.NET over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 537 594
Rank change year-on-year +43 +57 -12
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 25 63 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.25% 0.49% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 51 94
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £395 £494 £450
90th Percentile £525 £738 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £441 £415
% change year-on-year -5.95% +6.33% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.95
25th Percentile - - £26.13
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £34.63
90th Percentile - - £36.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VB.NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB.NET.

Daily rate trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB.NET over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB.NET.

Hourly rate trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +28 24 £390 -2.50% 26
London +16 22 £390 -2.50% 5
South East +39 1 £415 -17.00% 2
UK excluding London +37 1 £415 -5.95% 21
Work from Home +26 1 - - 20

VB.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 18 (72.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Boomi
1 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.00%) MS Access
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 18 (72.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Front Office
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 18 (72.00%) .NET Developer
3 17 (68.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 17 (68.00%) C# Developer
3 17 (68.00%) C# WPF Developer
3 17 (68.00%) WPF Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) IAM Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (4.00%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (68.00%) .NET Framework
2 17 (68.00%) WPF
3 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.00%) jQuery
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) WinForms
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.00%) Migration
1 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (8.00%) Catastrophe Modelling
2 2 (8.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (8.00%) Project Management
3 1 (4.00%) Analytics
3 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (4.00%) Attestation
3 1 (4.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (4.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (4.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (4.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (4.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (4.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (4.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) SQL
2 20 (80.00%) C#
3 19 (76.00%) VBA
4 18 (72.00%) VB
5 17 (68.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.00%) R
7 1 (4.00%) Python
7 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.00%) VB6
7 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (4.00%) Dell
2 1 (4.00%) Kronos
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) SAP