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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 477 471
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +145
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 28 103 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.90% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 26 64 75
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £49,375 £61,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £78,458 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

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 6,613 11,468 11,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 30.78% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,966 6,264 8,917
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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
East of England +18 8 £40,000 -21.95%
South East -5 7 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Wales - 4 £41,500 -
Midlands +9 3 £40,250 -15.26% 4
West Midlands +8 3 £40,250 -15.26% 2
South West -4 3 £60,000 +9.09%
North of England +8 2 £43,750 -16.67% 5
North West +17 1 £45,000 +4.65% 5
Northern Ireland -7 1 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire -9 1 £42,500 -19.05%
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 3 (10.71%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (14.29%) Power BI
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.71%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (10.71%) MySQL
5 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Humanities
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Software Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Design Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (10.71%) Integration Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Business Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Systems Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (46.43%) Web Services
3 6 (21.43%) RESTful
3 6 (21.43%) Vue
3 6 (21.43%) YAML
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 2 (7.14%) CSS
7 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.57%) Middleware
7 1 (3.57%) WPF
7 1 (3.57%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
3 6 (21.43%) Dependency Injection
3 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) Push Notifications
3 6 (21.43%) Scrum
3 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 6 (21.43%) SOLID
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.71%) CRM
6 3 (10.71%) ERP
6 3 (10.71%) OO
6 3 (10.71%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) C#
2 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) C
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.57%) VB
5 1 (3.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) HND
3 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) DevExpress
3 2 (7.14%) Infor
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) RedGate