VB Jobs in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring VB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VB over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 302 333
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +82
Permanent jobs citing VB 9 85 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.088% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.35% 1.70% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7 70 39
10th Percentile - £43,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £48,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £54,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -0.92% +17.20%
75th Percentile £60,875 £56,525 £74,250
90th Percentile £68,000 £59,000 -
England median annual salary £48,500 £48,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -25.78% +30.70%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,553 5,009 4,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.07% 29.00% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,711 3,907 3,445
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the South East

VB
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB in the South East.

Salary trend for VB in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VB in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Hampshire +56 8 £44,000 -9.28% 7
Thames Valley +3 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
VB
England

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (44.44%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (33.33%) Junos
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (44.44%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Aviation
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Development Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Test Development Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (44.44%) CAD
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 3 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C++
2 5 (55.56%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) Pascal
4 2 (22.22%) C
5 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ECSS
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Citrix
1 3 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) EMC