VB.NET Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VB.NET 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 521 457 492
Rank change year-on-year -64 +35 +123
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 14 65 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.18% 0.74% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12 43 185
10th Percentile £36,950 £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,125 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,000 £61,000 £64,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 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.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VB.NET
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

VB.NET
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the UK excluding London

VB.NET
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.NET 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
West Midlands +5 3 £40,250 -23.33% 4
Midlands -22 3 £40,250 -15.26% 4
Wales - 3 £41,500 -
North West -12 2 £48,250 -12.27% 1
Northern Ireland -28 2 £50,000 -
South West -43 2 £58,750 +6.82% 1
North of England -52 2 £48,250 -8.10% 5
East of England +3 1 £57,500 +9.52% 1
South East -37 1 £50,000 - 5
VB.NET
UK

VB.NET
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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Firebase
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (28.57%) Power BI
4 3 (21.43%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (14.29%) MySQL
6 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Software Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Business Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) ICT Officer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) RESTful
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
4 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 2 (14.29%) CSS
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
6 1 (7.14%) JSON
6 1 (7.14%) Middleware
6 1 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (7.14%) Sass
6 1 (7.14%) WPF
6 1 (7.14%) WSDL
6 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (21.43%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) ERP
4 2 (14.29%) Kanban
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) Software Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) C#
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) VB
4 1 (7.14%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) HND
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Infor
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) RedGate
3 1 (7.14%) UiPath