VB6 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VB6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VB6 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile £522 - -
England median daily rate £480 £605 -
% change year-on-year -20.66% - -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 686 356 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.77% 26.00% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 218 308
10th Percentile £341 £235 £260
25th Percentile £410 £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 £575
90th Percentile £619 £679 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 13
10th Percentile £48.75 £16.78 £40.10
25th Percentile £56.50 £18.31 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.32 £27.84 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.25% -51.58% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £33.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VB6 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VB6
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB6

VB6
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB6.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB6

VB6
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 VB6 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Shropshire - 3 £490 - 2
VB6
England

VB6
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Ingres
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveX
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
1 2 (66.67%) COM
1 2 (66.67%) ODBC
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Actian
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle