VB6 Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VB6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VB6 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 723 733
Rank change year-on-year +169 +10 +32
Permanent jobs citing VB6 3 43 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.061% 0.021%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.031% 0.19% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 3 39 12
10th Percentile - £47,500 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £56,875 £62,500 £51,563
90th Percentile £59,500 £62,750 £52,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -10.42% +17.07% +7.89%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

VB6 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 9,740 22,573 24,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 32.11% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,145 16,409 13,927
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%
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%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB6 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
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 VB6 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West - 2 £50,000 -
North of England +70 1 £57,500 -4.17%
North West +22 1 £57,500 -4.17%
VB6
UK

VB6
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 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (33.33%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RxJS
2 1 (33.33%) Sass
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft