VB6 Developer Contracts

VB6 Developer
UK

The median VB6 Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 - 714
Rank change year-on-year - - +127
Contract jobs requiring a VB6 Developer 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.52%
75th Percentile £619 - £360
90th Percentile £653 - £384
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £320
% change year-on-year - - -22.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

VB6 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured VB6 Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 Developer in the UK

VB6 Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB6 Developer.

Daily rate trend for VB6 Developer in the UK

VB6 Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB6 Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB6 Developer in the UK

VB6 Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB6 Developer.

Hourly rate trend for VB6 Developer in the UK

VB6 Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 Developer within the UK 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
Work from Home - 1 £650 -
London - 1 £450 -
England - 1 £450 -

VB6 Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, VB6 Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring VB6 Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms

VB6 Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker