VB.NET Job Trends in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring VB.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - 208
Rank change year-on-year - - -46
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.13% - 0.044%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% - 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £61,375 - £44,000
25th Percentile £61,563 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.85%
75th Percentile £66,563 - £58,750
90th Percentile £67,125 - £61,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £43,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 472 641 1,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.66% 25.71% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 289 234 745
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,630 £68,114
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in Scotland

VB.NET
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VB.NET

VB.NET
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.NET within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
West Lothian - 3 - - 1
Glasgow - 2 £63,750 -
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Elite 3E
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) LDAP
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Digital Innovation
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) RBAC
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Supplier Management
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Intapp