VB.NET Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VB.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.032% - 0.053%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £225 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £275 - £356
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £375 £390 £400
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 683 362 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.60% 25.88% 22.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 218 312
10th Percentile £350 £235 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £550
90th Percentile £619 £679 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 13
10th Percentile £48.75 £16.83 £40.10
25th Percentile £56.50 £19.12 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.32 £28.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.59% -50.99% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £33.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.00 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB.NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VB.NET
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Birmingham - 1 £250 - 1
VB.NET
England

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Developer
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) XML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL