Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 565 649
Rank change year-on-year -14 +84 -38
Permanent jobs citing VB 152 289 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 0.97% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 92 168 323
10th Percentile £37,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,383 £35,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -8.90% +15.54%
75th Percentile £55,625 £59,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,200 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £49,214 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.48% -1.57% +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17,402 29,717 49,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.81% 36.32% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,215 23,322 31,294
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the UK

VB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB.

Salary trend for VB in the UK

VB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Salary histogram for VB in the UK

VB
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the UK over the 6 months to 6 March 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
England -26 138 £50,000 - 58
UK excluding London +55 133 £47,500 -3.48% 39
Work from Home +46 62 £45,383 -13.56% 27
North of England +70 60 £45,383 -9.23% 16
North West +49 57 £45,383 -9.23% 10
South West +89 33 £50,000 +25.00% 6
Midlands -35 18 £53,750 +9.22% 7
London -5 13 £65,000 -3.70% 18
East of England +3 11 £40,000 +25.00%
East Midlands -1 11 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Scotland - 10 £42,500 -
West Midlands 0 7 £56,250 +25.00% 5
Yorkshire +54 3 £50,000 +5.26% 4
South East +19 2 £41,250 -25.00% 10

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (24.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.29%) WinCC
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.32%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 31 (20.39%) Adobe Illustrator
1 31 (20.39%) Photoshop
2 20 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.97%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe XD
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.82%) Azure
2 16 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.61%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 5 (3.29%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.63%) Figma
6 4 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.63%) SaaS
7 3 (1.97%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.32%) AWS
8 2 (1.32%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.32%) Slack
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.66%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) Ethernet
1 3 (1.97%) LAN
1 3 (1.97%) Modbus
1 3 (1.97%) VPN
1 3 (1.97%) WAN
1 3 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.58%) MySQL
3 7 (4.61%) Power BI
3 7 (4.61%) Power Query
3 7 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.29%) MS Access
5 4 (2.63%) PowerPivot
6 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.32%) Tableau
8 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.66%) Crystal Enterprise
8 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.66%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 31 (20.39%) Dreamweaver
2 21 (13.82%) JIRA
3 17 (11.18%) Bitbucket
4 16 (10.53%) Rational DOORS
5 15 (9.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.29%) Git
6 5 (3.29%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.97%) LabVIEW
8 2 (1.32%) git-flow
8 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.66%) GDB
9 1 (0.66%) GitLab
9 1 (0.66%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.66%) WinDbg
General
1 60 (39.47%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.39%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.55%) Electronics
6 12 (7.89%) Law
7 9 (5.92%) Finance
8 7 (4.61%) Legal
9 4 (2.63%) Billing
9 4 (2.63%) Retail
10 3 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.97%) Aviation
10 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.32%) Advertising
11 2 (1.32%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.66%) Banking
12 1 (0.66%) French Language
12 1 (0.66%) German Language
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
12 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (26.97%) Developer
2 36 (23.68%) Senior
3 31 (20.39%) Information Specialist
3 31 (20.39%) MIS Specialist
4 21 (13.82%) Software Engineer
5 15 (9.87%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 15 (9.87%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (6.58%) Analyst
7 9 (5.92%) FPGA Engineer
7 9 (5.92%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 9 (5.92%) Senior VHDL Engineer
7 9 (5.92%) VHDL Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Lead
9 7 (4.61%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Web Developer
11 5 (3.29%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Control Systems Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.29%) HTML
2 34 (22.37%) .NET
3 14 (9.21%) ASP.NET
4 13 (8.55%) XML
5 10 (6.58%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (6.58%) Razor View Engine
6 9 (5.92%) .NET Framework
6 9 (5.92%) Entity Framework
7 8 (5.26%) WPF
8 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
8 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.29%) Ajax
9 5 (3.29%) JSON
9 5 (3.29%) React
9 5 (3.29%) WinForms
10 4 (2.63%) CSS
11 3 (1.97%) Blazor
11 3 (1.97%) Middleware
11 3 (1.97%) RESTful
12 2 (1.32%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.34%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.92%) FPGA
2 9 (5.92%) GNSS
2 9 (5.92%) MicroBlaze
2 9 (5.92%) Satnav
2 9 (5.92%) VHDL
3 8 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.61%) SCADA
5 4 (2.63%) NHS
5 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Robotics
6 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.42%) Windows
2 20 (13.16%) Linux
3 12 (7.89%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.95%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.29%) Windows 7
5 5 (3.29%) Windows 8
6 3 (1.97%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (1.97%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.66%) Android
7 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.13%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (24.34%) Customer Requirements
3 29 (19.08%) Agile
4 25 (16.45%) Software Engineering
5 17 (11.18%) Computer Science
5 17 (11.18%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 15 (9.87%) Design Patterns
8 13 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (8.55%) Migration
9 12 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (7.89%) Project Management
10 10 (6.58%) Decision-Making
10 10 (6.58%) MVC
10 10 (6.58%) SDLC
11 9 (5.92%) B2B
11 9 (5.92%) Defect Tracking
11 9 (5.92%) Requirements Analysis
11 9 (5.92%) Signal Processing
11 9 (5.92%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 83 (54.61%) SQL
2 62 (40.79%) C#
3 50 (32.89%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.76%) C
5 22 (14.47%) C++
6 21 (13.82%) Java
7 19 (12.50%) Python
8 16 (10.53%) Ada
9 11 (7.24%) VBA
10 9 (5.92%) MATLAB
10 9 (5.92%) Perl
10 9 (5.92%) Tcl
10 9 (5.92%) T-SQL
10 9 (5.92%) VB.NET
11 8 (5.26%) PHP
11 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
12 6 (3.95%) VB6
13 3 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.97%) VBScript
14 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (46.71%) Degree
2 15 (9.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) MCP
4 6 (3.95%) MCSE
4 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.66%) HNC
7 1 (0.66%) HND
7 1 (0.66%) MCSA
7 1 (0.66%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.97%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (8.55%) Firmware
2 12 (7.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (6.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.32%) Docker
5 1 (0.66%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (3.95%) SCCM
2 5 (3.29%) Functional Safety
2 5 (3.29%) WMI
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.39%) Citrix
3 9 (5.92%) Altera
3 9 (5.92%) Green Hills
3 9 (5.92%) Oracle
3 9 (5.92%) Xilinx
4 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.29%) Remedy
4 5 (3.29%) SAP
4 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.29%) Siemens
5 4 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco
6 3 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.97%) Infor
6 3 (1.97%) Intapp
7 2 (1.32%) Aderant
7 2 (1.32%) Adobe
7 2 (1.32%) iManage
7 2 (1.32%) Salesforce