VB Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring VB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 73 50
Rank change year-on-year +8 -23 +28
Permanent jobs citing VB 1 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.17% 0.54% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 2.45% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26,250 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £55,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +83.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £28,750 - £32,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +19.57% +16.82%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 54 163 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 9.26% 22.03% 31.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41 108 114
10th Percentile £32,500 - £28,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £32,500 £33,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £63,500 £55,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

VB job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

VB
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VB

VB
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Stoke-on-Trent +17 1 £27,500 - 1
VB
West Midlands

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec