VB Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 480 564
Rank change year-on-year -55 +84 +5
Permanent jobs citing VB 44 302 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 1.32% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 34 248 147
10th Percentile £24,125 £30,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51,240 £59,000 £57,931
90th Percentile £60,875 £62,500 £67,070
UK median annual salary £50,055 £48,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +3.21% -20.73% +22.36%

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 10,486 22,929 22,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.42% 30.62% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,796 16,578 13,040
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -2.16% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,307 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
North of England +1 28 £50,055 +0.11% 8
North West -18 26 £50,055 -4.66% 1
South West +89 10 £50,000 +53.85% 5
South East +12 3 £44,000 -18.52% 17
Midlands -11 3 £50,000 - 27
Yorkshire +42 2 £25,000 -47.37% 4
West Midlands +19 2 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Scotland +117 1 - - 9
East Midlands +4 1 £40,000 -15.79% 3
VB
UK

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.27%) IIS
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.55%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.27%) AWS
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) Power Query
2 4 (9.09%) PowerPivot
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) Tableau
3 2 (4.55%) ThoughtSpot
4 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) JIRA
2 15 (34.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 15 (34.09%) Bitbucket
2 15 (34.09%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.27%) GDB
3 1 (2.27%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.27%) WinDbg
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Automotive
3 5 (11.36%) Electronics
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Billing
5 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (50.00%) Senior
2 16 (36.36%) Senior Software Engineer
2 16 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 15 (34.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 6 (13.64%) Developer
5 4 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (9.09%) IT Support
6 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Development Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) FPGA Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Software Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Software Support Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Test Development Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (4.55%) VHDL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) Pyramid
3 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.27%) Blazor
3 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) libvirt
3 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) RxJS
3 1 (2.27%) Sass
3 1 (2.27%) SOAP
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
3 1 (2.27%) XML
3 1 (2.27%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 4 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) FPGA
2 2 (4.55%) GNSS
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) MicroBlaze
2 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.55%) Satnav
2 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.55%) VHDL
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Android
3 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.27%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) VxWorks
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Agile
2 16 (36.36%) Configuration Management
2 16 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 15 (34.09%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (34.09%) Design Patterns
4 7 (15.91%) DevOps
5 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.36%) Analytics
7 4 (9.09%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (9.09%) Client Onboarding
7 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (9.09%) Economics
7 4 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
7 4 (9.09%) Pricing Strategy
7 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.09%) Product Strategy
7 4 (9.09%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (59.09%) C#
2 20 (45.45%) C
3 16 (36.36%) Java
4 15 (34.09%) Ada
5 7 (15.91%) C++
5 7 (15.91%) SQL
6 6 (13.64%) Python
7 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 5 (11.36%) VBA
8 3 (6.82%) MATLAB
8 3 (6.82%) VB.NET
8 3 (6.82%) VB6
9 2 (4.55%) Pascal
9 2 (4.55%) Perl
9 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.55%) Tcl
9 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.27%) CodeQL
10 1 (2.27%) R
10 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (61.36%) Degree
2 15 (34.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) MCP
5 2 (4.55%) MCSE
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (2.27%) MCSA
6 1 (2.27%) Postgraduate
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) ECSS
2 1 (2.27%) NCSC
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (6.82%) Firmware
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.55%) SCCM
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Bloomberg
2 4 (9.09%) Logitech
3 2 (4.55%) Altera
3 2 (4.55%) Green Hills
3 2 (4.55%) Xilinx
4 1 (2.27%) McAfee
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Remedy
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Symantec
4 1 (2.27%) VMware