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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 491 565
Rank change year-on-year -34 +74 -8
Permanent jobs citing VB 54 290 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 1.29% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 38 238 154
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,400 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -3.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,250 £59,000 £57,931
90th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,070
UK median annual salary £50,055 £48,500 £55,580
% change year-on-year +3.21% -12.74% +17.01%

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 10,614 22,414 24,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.22% 31.64% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,108 16,324 13,561
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
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 14 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 14 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 +16 28 £50,055 -4.66% 14
North West -14 25 £50,055 -4.66% 6
South West +90 16 £50,000 +53.85% 9
Midlands -11 6 £56,250 +12.50% 32
East Midlands -1 4 £56,250 +18.42% 3
Yorkshire +62 3 £25,000 -47.37% 4
Scotland +115 2 £37,500 -21.05% 10
South East +44 2 £35,000 -35.19% 34
West Midlands +16 2 - - 27
East of England 0 1 £40,000 - 9
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 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.85%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.70%) Figma
4 2 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) AWS
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.85%) OCI
5 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (1.85%) tcpdump
1 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) Power Query
2 4 (7.41%) PowerPivot
3 3 (5.56%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) Tableau
4 2 (3.70%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.85%) Crystal Enterprise
5 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) MS Access
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JIRA
2 16 (29.63%) Bitbucket
2 16 (29.63%) Rational DOORS
3 15 (27.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (7.41%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.85%) GDB
5 1 (1.85%) Git
5 1 (1.85%) git-flow
5 1 (1.85%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.85%) WinDbg
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Electronics
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
5 4 (7.41%) Billing
6 3 (5.56%) Law
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.85%) Automotive
8 1 (1.85%) Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Publishing
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Senior
2 16 (29.63%) Senior Software Engineer
2 16 (29.63%) Software Engineer
3 15 (27.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 13 (24.07%) Developer
5 6 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior VHDL Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) VHDL Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Microsoft Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Support Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.70%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.70%) IT Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Software Support Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) .NET
2 4 (7.41%) XML
3 3 (5.56%) Blazor
3 3 (5.56%) HTML
3 3 (5.56%) Middleware
3 3 (5.56%) WPF
4 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.70%) Pyramid
4 2 (3.70%) Sass
4 2 (3.70%) Web Services
5 1 (1.85%) Ajax
5 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) CSS
5 1 (1.85%) libvirt
5 1 (1.85%) Preactjs
5 1 (1.85%) React
5 1 (1.85%) SignalR
5 1 (1.85%) SOAP
5 1 (1.85%) XML Schema
5 1 (1.85%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) FPGA
1 6 (11.11%) GNSS
1 6 (11.11%) MicroBlaze
1 6 (11.11%) Satnav
1 6 (11.11%) VHDL
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.56%) Windows 7
4 3 (5.56%) Windows 8
5 2 (3.70%) Android
5 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.85%) VxWorks
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Agile
2 18 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 17 (31.48%) Configuration Management
4 16 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (27.78%) Design Patterns
5 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
6 7 (12.96%) DevOps
6 7 (12.96%) SDLC
7 6 (11.11%) B2B
7 6 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
7 6 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
7 6 (11.11%) FPGA Design
7 6 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
7 6 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
7 6 (11.11%) Signal Processing
8 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (9.26%) Data Management
8 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
8 5 (9.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) C#
2 25 (46.30%) C
3 17 (31.48%) Java
4 16 (29.63%) Ada
4 16 (29.63%) SQL
5 11 (20.37%) Python
6 10 (18.52%) C++
6 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
7 7 (12.96%) MATLAB
8 6 (11.11%) Perl
8 6 (11.11%) Tcl
9 5 (9.26%) T-SQL
10 3 (5.56%) PHP
10 3 (5.56%) VB.NET
10 3 (5.56%) VB6
10 3 (5.56%) VBA
11 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
11 2 (3.70%) VBScript
12 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) Degree
2 15 (27.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) MCP
4 4 (7.41%) MCSE
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.70%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) HNC
6 1 (1.85%) HND
6 1 (1.85%) MCSA
6 1 (1.85%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) ECSS
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Embedded Firmware
1 7 (12.96%) Firmware
2 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.70%) Docker
4 1 (1.85%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) SCCM
2 3 (5.56%) WMI
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Altera
2 6 (11.11%) Green Hills
2 6 (11.11%) Xilinx
3 4 (7.41%) Bloomberg
4 3 (5.56%) Remedy
4 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Adobe
6 1 (1.85%) Epicor
6 1 (1.85%) Intapp
6 1 (1.85%) Logitech
6 1 (1.85%) McAfee
6 1 (1.85%) Symantec
6 1 (1.85%) VMware