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 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 426 648
Rank change year-on-year -170 +222 -66
Permanent jobs citing VB 193 339 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 1.56% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 98 140 345
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,350 £27,250
25th Percentile £41,438 £49,168 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,383 £56,525 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +13.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,252 £74,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £85,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,383 £54,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.73% +14.74% +18.75%

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 21,986 21,694 56,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.74% 40.61% 45.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,841 16,964 36,175
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £38,322
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,131 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 December 2024.

Salary histogram for VB in the UK

VB
Top 15 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 December 2024. 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
UK excluding London -68 180 £45,383 -16.73% 55
England -188 175 £45,383 -19.71% 59
Work from Home -45 76 £45,383 -17.49% 41
North of England +7 53 £45,383 +6.78% 14
North West -8 44 £45,383 -22.75% 8
South West +29 39 £48,750 +2.63% 6
Midlands -44 32 £47,500 +3.26% 15
South East -129 24 £52,376 -7.34% 10
East Midlands -34 20 £45,000 -14.29% 6
East of England -39 17 £40,000 +25.00% 5
Scotland - 15 £42,500 - 4
West Midlands -42 12 £55,000 +19.57% 9
London -117 8 £64,750 -7.50% 9
Yorkshire +24 6 £50,000 +25.00% 6
North East - 3 £52,500 -

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 38 (19.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) WinCC
4 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 2 (1.04%) Mule
Applications
1 31 (16.06%) Adobe Illustrator
1 31 (16.06%) Photoshop
2 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.59%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe XD
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (1.04%) Magento
2 2 (1.04%) TIBCO iProcess
2 2 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.24%) Azure
2 27 (13.99%) Power Platform
3 21 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.18%) PowerApps
5 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.15%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 8 (4.15%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.15%) OneDrive
7 6 (3.11%) AWS
7 6 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.11%) Azure Storage
7 6 (3.11%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.07%) Figma
9 4 (2.07%) SaaS
10 3 (1.55%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.63%) LAN
1 7 (3.63%) Modbus
1 7 (3.63%) WAN
1 7 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.11%) DHCP
2 6 (3.11%) DNS
2 6 (3.11%) Firewall
2 6 (3.11%) VPN
3 3 (1.55%) Internet
4 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.17%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.84%) MySQL
3 13 (6.74%) Power BI
4 9 (4.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.59%) MS Access
5 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.55%) Power Query
6 3 (1.55%) Tableau
7 2 (1.04%) Informix
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.52%) Crystal Enterprise
8 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (16.06%) Dreamweaver
2 13 (6.74%) JIRA
3 11 (5.70%) Visual Studio
4 9 (4.66%) LabVIEW
5 6 (3.11%) AdminStudio
5 6 (3.11%) InstallShield
5 6 (3.11%) MSI
6 5 (2.59%) Git
7 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.55%) HP UFT
8 2 (1.04%) git-flow
8 2 (1.04%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
General
1 66 (34.20%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (27.46%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.62%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (11.92%) Manufacturing
5 18 (9.33%) Finance
5 18 (9.33%) Law
6 11 (5.70%) Electronics
7 7 (3.63%) Legal
8 6 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Advertising
11 2 (1.04%) Aviation
11 2 (1.04%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (30.05%) Developer
2 31 (16.06%) Information Specialist
2 31 (16.06%) MIS Specialist
3 18 (9.33%) Senior
4 15 (7.77%) Analyst
5 13 (6.74%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) Lead
7 10 (5.18%) .NET Developer
8 8 (4.15%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) C# Developer
9 7 (3.63%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.63%) FPGA Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) PHP Developer
9 7 (3.63%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.63%) Senior FPGA Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Senior VHDL Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) VHDL Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.57%) .NET
2 51 (26.42%) HTML
3 22 (11.40%) XML
4 20 (10.36%) ASP.NET
5 13 (6.74%) .NET Framework
5 13 (6.74%) Entity Framework
6 11 (5.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 11 (5.70%) Razor View Engine
7 10 (5.18%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.66%) CSS
8 9 (4.66%) JSON
9 8 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (4.15%) WPF
10 7 (3.63%) Ajax
10 7 (3.63%) Web Services
11 6 (3.11%) ARM Templates
11 6 (3.11%) WinForms
12 5 (2.59%) React
12 5 (2.59%) XSLT
13 4 (2.07%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.69%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.66%) PKI
4 9 (4.66%) Robotics
5 7 (3.63%) FPGA
5 7 (3.63%) GNSS
5 7 (3.63%) MicroBlaze
5 7 (3.63%) Satnav
5 7 (3.63%) SCADA
5 7 (3.63%) VHDL
6 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.11%) Shadow IT
7 5 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.07%) NHS
9 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.55%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (27.46%) Windows
2 26 (13.47%) Linux
3 23 (11.92%) Windows 10
4 18 (9.33%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.18%) Windows 7
6 6 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.07%) Unix
7 4 (2.07%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.55%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.55%) VxWorks
8 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.52%) Android
9 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.34%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (22.28%) Agile
3 40 (20.73%) Customer Requirements
4 25 (12.95%) Project Management
5 22 (11.40%) Migration
6 21 (10.88%) Software Engineering
7 20 (10.36%) Computer Science
8 19 (9.84%) ITIL
9 18 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (8.81%) DevOps
10 17 (8.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (8.29%) Software Deployment
12 15 (7.77%) SDLC
13 14 (7.25%) Data Analysis
14 13 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (6.74%) MVC
15 12 (6.22%) Release Management
15 12 (6.22%) Service Management
16 11 (5.70%) Visualisation
16 11 (5.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 114 (59.07%) SQL
2 80 (41.45%) C#
3 59 (30.57%) JavaScript
4 28 (14.51%) C++
5 27 (13.99%) PowerShell
6 21 (10.88%) VB.NET
7 18 (9.33%) Python
8 16 (8.29%) VBA
9 15 (7.77%) C
9 15 (7.77%) T-SQL
10 13 (6.74%) Java
10 13 (6.74%) VBScript
11 10 (5.18%) Perl
11 10 (5.18%) VB6
12 9 (4.66%) PHP
13 7 (3.63%) MATLAB
13 7 (3.63%) Tcl
13 7 (3.63%) TypeScript
14 6 (3.11%) Bicep
15 3 (1.55%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 78 (40.41%) Degree
2 21 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.29%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.07%) MCP
7 4 (2.07%) MCSE
8 3 (1.55%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.55%) HNC
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.04%) HND
9 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.59%) QA
1 5 (2.59%) SLA
2 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (11.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.70%) Firmware
3 10 (5.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (3.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.55%) OpenSSH
6 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.55%) vSphere
6 3 (1.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (8.29%) SCCM
2 12 (6.22%) WSUS
3 6 (3.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.11%) SCOM
4 4 (2.07%) WMI
5 3 (1.55%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) IBM BigFix
5 3 (1.55%) PowerCLI
5 3 (1.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.62%) Citrix
3 12 (6.22%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.18%) Oracle
4 10 (5.18%) VMware
5 7 (3.63%) Altera
5 7 (3.63%) Green Hills
5 7 (3.63%) Xilinx
6 6 (3.11%) Autodesk
6 6 (3.11%) Cisco
6 6 (3.11%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (2.59%) Infor
8 4 (2.07%) Adobe
8 4 (2.07%) Remedy
9 3 (1.55%) Avature
9 3 (1.55%) EMC
9 3 (1.55%) IBM
9 3 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.55%) SAP
9 3 (1.55%) Siemens