VB Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 130 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Permanent jobs citing VB 1 14 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.037% 0.55% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.17% 1.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £42,500 -
UK median annual salary £42,792 £50,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -14.42% -11.54% +7.67%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

VB 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 604 933 1,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.08% 36.35% 49.76%
Number of salaries quoted 255 489 820
10th Percentile £28,100 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -7.60% +3.52%
75th Percentile £73,908 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,648 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

VB job vacancy trend in Scotland

VB
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VB

VB
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Edinburgh -7 1 - -
VB
UK

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL