VB.NET Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 199 227
Rank change year-on-year +29 +28 +79
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 5 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.21% 0.045%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 0.77% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £45,750 £63,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +8.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £72,000 £69,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 743 1,691 1,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.75% 27.79% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 531 939 1,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the South West

VB.NET
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VB.NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB.NET in the South West over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the South West

VB.NET
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Wiltshire +30 3 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Devon +5 1 - -
Somerset -9 1 £57,500 - 1
VB.NET
England

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (20.00%) Blazor
4 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) WinForms
4 1 (20.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft