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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 570 624
Rank change year-on-year -74 +54 +136
Permanent jobs citing VB 65 364 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 1.08% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46 260 297
10th Percentile £26,949 £30,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,500 £57,078
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -15.03% +15.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £70,625 £62,625 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.21% -3.00% +11.11%

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 16,594 33,687 41,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.95% 32.62% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,785 25,114 26,852
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VB in the UK

VB
Top 13 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 30 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
England -107 61 £50,055 +3.21% 199
UK excluding London -47 43 £50,055 +3.21% 208
North of England +14 27 £50,055 +0.11% 38
North West -12 25 £50,055 -4.66% 14
London +76 19 £65,000 +36.84% 12
Work from Home -55 14 £50,000 - 17
South West +82 10 £50,000 +53.85% 19
South East +23 3 £44,000 -18.52% 56
Midlands +10 3 £50,000 - 54
Yorkshire +46 2 £25,000 -47.37% 17
West Midlands +21 2 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Scotland +113 1 - - 12
East Midlands +7 1 £40,000 -15.79% 17

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 8 (12.31%) Kinematics
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.62%) IIS
3 3 (4.62%) WinCC
4 1 (1.54%) SAS
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (16.92%) SOLIDWORKS
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.08%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Endur
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.08%) AWS
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) DNS
1 1 (1.54%) tcpdump
1 1 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Power Query
2 4 (6.15%) PowerPivot
2 4 (6.15%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.62%) Tableau
4 2 (3.08%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) MySQL
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) JIRA
2 15 (23.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 15 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 15 (23.08%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.54%) GDB
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.54%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.54%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.54%) WinDbg
General
1 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 13 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 11 (16.92%) Aviation
5 8 (12.31%) Aeronautics
6 5 (7.69%) Electronics
6 5 (7.69%) Finance
6 5 (7.69%) French Language
6 5 (7.69%) German Language
7 4 (6.15%) Automotive
7 4 (6.15%) Billing
8 3 (4.62%) Retail
9 2 (3.08%) Law
9 2 (3.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.54%) Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Publishing
10 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Senior
2 16 (24.62%) Senior Software Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) Software Engineer
3 15 (23.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 12 (18.46%) Support Engineer
4 12 (18.46%) Technical Engineer
4 12 (18.46%) Technical Support
4 12 (18.46%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) ETRM Manager
7 4 (6.15%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.62%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (4.62%) Control Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) IT Support
9 2 (3.08%) Applications Support
9 2 (3.08%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.08%) Pyramid
3 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.54%) Blazor
3 1 (1.54%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.54%) HTML
3 1 (1.54%) JSON
3 1 (1.54%) libvirt
3 1 (1.54%) PySpark
3 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.54%) REST
3 1 (1.54%) RxJS
3 1 (1.54%) Sass
3 1 (1.54%) SOAP
3 1 (1.54%) Web Services
3 1 (1.54%) XML
3 1 (1.54%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
1 4 (6.15%) Swaptions
2 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.62%) SCADA
3 2 (3.08%) FPGA
3 2 (3.08%) GNSS
3 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.08%) MicroBlaze
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.08%) Satnav
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.08%) VHDL
4 1 (1.54%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Windows
2 7 (10.77%) Linux
3 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.08%) Android
4 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.54%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.54%) VxWorks
5 1 (1.54%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.54%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Agile
2 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
3 16 (24.62%) Configuration Management
4 15 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 13 (20.00%) CAD
5 13 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (18.46%) ERP
7 8 (12.31%) DevOps
7 8 (12.31%) Finite Element Analysis
7 8 (12.31%) Lean Manufacturing
7 8 (12.31%) Project Management
8 7 (10.77%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.23%) Migration
9 6 (9.23%) SDLC
10 5 (7.69%) Analytics
10 5 (7.69%) Bill of Materials
10 5 (7.69%) Data Modelling
11 4 (6.15%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.77%) C#
2 20 (30.77%) C
2 20 (30.77%) Java
3 15 (23.08%) Ada
4 12 (18.46%) SQL
5 10 (15.38%) C++
6 7 (10.77%) Python
7 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.15%) VB.NET
8 4 (6.15%) VB6
8 4 (6.15%) VBA
9 3 (4.62%) MATLAB
10 2 (3.08%) Pascal
10 2 (3.08%) Perl
10 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.08%) Tcl
10 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.54%) PHP
11 1 (1.54%) R
11 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (53.85%) Degree
2 15 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.62%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) MCP
6 2 (3.08%) MCSE
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.08%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.54%) MCSA
7 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) ECSS
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.62%) Firmware
3 2 (3.08%) Docker
4 1 (1.54%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.54%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.62%) Functional Safety
3 2 (3.08%) SCCM
4 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.54%) Terraform
4 1 (1.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.92%) SAP
3 9 (13.85%) Oracle
4 4 (6.15%) Bloomberg
4 4 (6.15%) OpenLink
4 4 (6.15%) Sybase
4 4 (6.15%) TIBCO
5 3 (4.62%) Logitech
5 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.62%) Siemens
5 3 (4.62%) Twitter
6 2 (3.08%) Aderant
6 2 (3.08%) Altera
6 2 (3.08%) Green Hills
6 2 (3.08%) iManage
6 2 (3.08%) Intapp
6 2 (3.08%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.54%) Remedy
7 1 (1.54%) Symantec
7 1 (1.54%) VMware