VB.NET Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VB.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 216 258
Rank change year-on-year -25 +42 +6
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 4 11 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.032% 0.22% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.86% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 73
10th Percentile £44,713 £42,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £45,594 £44,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,625 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +7.53% -7.00%
75th Percentile £49,094 - £56,250
90th Percentile £49,638 - £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,762 1,277 3,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.27% 25.49% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 939 2,775
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VB.NET
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VB.NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -23 2 £47,625 +5.83% 1
West Midlands -27 2 - - 1
VB.NET
England

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

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Developer
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) XML Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) IT Support
3 1 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) ERP
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) RPG
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) DevExpress
1 1 (25.00%) Sage