VB.NET Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring VB.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 540 553
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 +201
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 34 140 107
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.065% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.33% 0.83% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 31 97 98
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
England

VB.NET falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,272 16,939 17,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.75% 34.03% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,735 10,080 14,868
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,238 £39,749
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,452 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VB.NET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

VB.NET job vacancy trend in England

VB.NET
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VB.NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB.NET in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in England

VB.NET
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 11 £58,750 -9.62% 3
East of England +18 8 £40,000 -21.95%
South East -2 7 £45,000 -25.00% 1
West Midlands +20 3 £40,250 -15.26% 1
Midlands +15 3 £40,250 -15.26% 3
South West +4 3 £60,000 +9.09%
North of England -4 2 £43,750 -16.67% 3
North West +17 1 £45,000 +4.65% 3
Yorkshire -8 1 £42,500 -19.05%
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) IIS
2 3 (8.82%) CMS
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Fidessa
1 2 (5.88%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) WinSCP
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) Internet
3 1 (2.94%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.88%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Humanities
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Police
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Analyst
3 9 (26.47%) Support Analyst
4 8 (23.53%) Applications Support
5 6 (17.65%) Applications Support Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Design Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (8.82%) Integration Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Business Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Support Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Developer
8 1 (2.94%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (2.94%) IT Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) IT Support
8 1 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (32.35%) Web Services
3 6 (17.65%) Vue
3 6 (17.65%) YAML
4 4 (11.76%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.82%) HTML
6 2 (5.88%) CSS
6 2 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.94%) Middleware
7 1 (2.94%) React
7 1 (2.94%) REST
7 1 (2.94%) SOAP
7 1 (2.94%) WPF
7 1 (2.94%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) AS400
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Eurex
2 2 (5.88%) iSeries
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Solaris
3 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Agile
1 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.59%) Migration
3 6 (17.65%) Clean Code
3 6 (17.65%) Dependency Injection
3 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (17.65%) Push Notifications
3 6 (17.65%) Scrum
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 6 (17.65%) SOLID
3 6 (17.65%) Task Automation
4 5 (14.71%) ITIL
5 4 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 4 (11.76%) ETL
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.76%) Release Management
5 4 (11.76%) Service Management
5 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) C#
2 15 (44.12%) SQL
3 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) Python
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) C
6 1 (2.94%) VB
6 1 (2.94%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) HND
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.88%) MCDST
3 2 (5.88%) MCITP
3 2 (5.88%) MCP
3 2 (5.88%) MCSA
3 2 (5.88%) MCSE
3 2 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) DevExpress
3 2 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) CQG
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) Infor
3 2 (5.88%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.88%) Patsystems
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.88%) Reuters
3 2 (5.88%) Trayport
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow