VB.NET Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring VB.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 -
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.24% 0.21% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 0.65% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 37 153 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.94% 31.61% 47.95%
Number of salaries quoted 21 76 133
10th Percentile £39,250 £37,750 £33,150
25th Percentile £45,500 £47,303 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +32.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,250 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

VB.NET
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing VB.NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
County Antrim +9 1 £50,000 - 1
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate