VB Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 301 174
Rank change year-on-year +35 -127 +205
Permanent jobs citing VB 4 5 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.039% 0.056% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.25% 0.17% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 43
10th Percentile £45,050 £36,500 -
25th Percentile £51,125 £38,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.39% +10.08%
75th Percentile £64,375 £48,125 £59,000
90th Percentile £64,750 £48,500 £74,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -11.54% +10.08%

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 1,591 2,979 3,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.33% 33.18% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 1,740 2,397
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VB job vacancy trend in the South East

VB
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VB

VB
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
Hampshire - 2 £44,000 -
Kent -12 1 £65,000 +44.44% 1
East Sussex - 1 £62,500 -
VB
England

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GNU Octave
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CAD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Delphi
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) Pascal
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ANSYS
2 1 (25.00%) Keysight