VB Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 445 466
Rank change year-on-year -67 +21 +72
Permanent jobs citing VB 23 77 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.87% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 175
10th Percentile £25,250 £33,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £43,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -
75th Percentile £56,563 £59,471 £59,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £61,250 £63,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -8.90%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,926 8,803 19,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.95% 31.45% 33.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,689 5,839 15,488
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,290 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VB job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VB

VB
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
North of England -55 7 £40,000 -30.43% 9
East of England +5 6 £26,500 -33.75% 5
North West -19 5 £40,000 -30.43% 4
Midlands -29 5 £32,500 -38.10% 3
East Midlands -38 3 £38,500 -3.75% 1
South West -58 3 £65,000 +30.00% 1
West Midlands +2 2 £30,000 -45.45% 2
South East -8 2 £65,000 +57.58% 3
North East - 2 - - 2
VB
UK

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
1 2 (8.70%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.35%) AutoCAD
3 1 (4.35%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (21.74%) Google Workspace
3 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Fabric
4 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Wireless
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Electronics
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) IT Support
3 6 (26.09%) Senior
4 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Automation Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Electronics Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
2 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
3 3 (13.04%) jQuery
4 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (8.70%) CSS
4 2 (8.70%) CSS3
4 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 2 (8.70%) HTML5
4 2 (8.70%) LESS
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (8.70%) OpenID
4 2 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) Sass
4 2 (8.70%) SOAP
4 2 (8.70%) Swagger
4 2 (8.70%) WCF
4 2 (8.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Driving Licence
2 3 (13.04%) CCTV
2 3 (13.04%) SCADA
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.35%) CAN bus
4 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.35%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
1 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
2 5 (21.74%) Apple iOS
2 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
2 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Time Management
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) SDLC
6 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) MVC
6 2 (8.70%) Network Design
6 2 (8.70%) Software Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.70%) TDD
6 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) VB6
4 3 (13.04%) C
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Ladder Logic
4 3 (13.04%) VBA
5 2 (8.70%) C++
5 2 (8.70%) Delphi
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
6 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) DBS Check
3 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.04%) HND
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Apple
1 5 (21.74%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) UiPath
4 1 (4.35%) Symantec