VB6 Contracts

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 509 - 706
Rank change year-on-year - - +119
Contract jobs citing VB6 11 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% - 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% - 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £450 - £312
25th Percentile £500 - £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.04%
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £650 - £544
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
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 £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £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 £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in the UK

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VB6 in the UK

VB6
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VB6 in the UK

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in the UK

VB6
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 VB6 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
England - 8 £605 - 6
London - 5 £450 - 2
Work from Home - 4 £630 - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 £550 -

VB6
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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (9.09%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) InterSystems Cache
2 4 (36.36%) MS Access
3 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) VB Developer
2 2 (18.18%) VB Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) VB6 Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) ODBC
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 3 (27.27%) Entity Framework
3 2 (18.18%) Dapper ORM
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) WinForms
4 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (9.09%) Ajax
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) JMS
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) AIX
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) OpenVMS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Backlog Management
3 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) ERP
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Web Development
4 1 (9.09%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) VB
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) MUMPS
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) InterSystems
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Kronos
4 1 (9.09%) VMware