VB6 Contract Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring VB6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 49 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing VB6 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.21% 0.23% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 0.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £615 £630 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £640 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - -
75th Percentile £645 £650 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £565 £623 £700
% change year-on-year -9.24% -11.07% +26.70%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 105 113 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.06% 26.40% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 87
10th Percentile £305 £169 £198
25th Percentile £405 £263 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £538
90th Percentile £640 £575 £628
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 7
10th Percentile £27.14 £16.19 £23.72
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.12 £36.43
Median hourly rate £30.50 £20.24 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.73% -61.46% +176.97%
75th Percentile £59.38 £23.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £26.25 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

VB6 job vacancy trend in Wales

VB6
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VB6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VB6

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VB6.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VB6

VB6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (100.00%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) InterSystems
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft