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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 516 562
Rank change year-on-year +12 +46 +112
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 35 64 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.48% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 53 107
10th Percentile £385 £320 -
25th Percentile £385 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £397 £601 £475
90th Percentile £559 £682 £542
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -10.29% -2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £15.98 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year - -56.81% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.98 -

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 10,153 13,202 18,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 30.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,888 9,262 13,464
10th Percentile £350 £350 £378
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 554 446
10th Percentile £25.65 £31.25 £28.55
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.27 £75.00 £79.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.88% +3.20% +19.05%

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 23 June 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 11 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 23 June 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 +43 33 £390 -13.33% 137
London +33 24 £390 -10.86% 59
UK excluding London +31 9 £393 -10.29% 79
North of England +13 3 - - 22
Yorkshire 0 3 - - 11
South West +46 2 £393 -37.20% 7
Work from Home +10 2 £393 -21.50% 54
Midlands +8 2 £313 -7.26% 24
East Midlands - 2 £313 - 11
South East +43 1 £415 -17.00% 15
Wales +5 1 £455 +21.33%

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.86%) Boomi
2 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (54.29%) Oracle Database
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) MS Access
3 3 (8.57%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Selenium
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (68.57%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Front Office
4 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Developer
2 21 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 20 (57.14%) C# Developer
4 19 (54.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 19 (54.29%) C# WPF Developer
4 19 (54.29%) WPF Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Software Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Automation Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (2.86%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (68.57%) .NET Framework
3 19 (54.29%) WPF
4 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.57%) MSMQ
6 2 (5.71%) CSS
6 2 (5.71%) HTML
7 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.86%) JSON
7 1 (2.86%) LDAP
7 1 (2.86%) ODBC
7 1 (2.86%) React
7 1 (2.86%) REST
7 1 (2.86%) WinForms
7 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (14.29%) Agile
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) Project Management
3 5 (14.29%) Scrum
4 4 (11.43%) PRINCE2
5 3 (8.57%) Business Strategy
5 3 (8.57%) Change Management
5 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (8.57%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Focus Group
5 3 (8.57%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (8.57%) People Management
5 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
5 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.57%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (8.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) SQL
2 26 (74.29%) C#
3 22 (62.86%) VBA
4 21 (60.00%) VB
5 19 (54.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.57%) Python
7 2 (5.71%) R
7 2 (5.71%) VB6
8 1 (2.86%) Java
8 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) PMP
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Blue Prism
3 1 (2.86%) Dell
3 1 (2.86%) InterSystems
3 1 (2.86%) Kronos
3 1 (2.86%) UiPath