Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VB.NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VB.NET over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 573 796
Rank change year-on-year -49 +223 -190
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 157 192 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 0.80% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 102 155 281
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £78,458 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £45,804
% change year-on-year -13.64% +20.08% +11.72%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,808 24,089 68,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.15% 40.52% 48.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 18,693 38,261
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,646 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB.NET over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 October 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
England -47 151 £53,000 -3.64% 39
UK excluding London -35 129 £47,500 -13.64% 32
Work from Home +22 83 £52,500 -4.55% 48
South East -4 50 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Midlands -36 27 £47,500 -5.00% 12
London -25 25 £77,500 +14.81% 7
West Midlands -37 24 £46,250 -7.50% 6
North of England -32 18 £43,000 -21.82% 9
South West +6 15 £65,000 +4.00% 3
East of England -35 14 £50,000 -11.11% 5
North West -18 10 £43,000 - 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £42,500 -22.73% 4
Wales +39 3 £35,000 -
East Midlands -29 3 £100,000 +110.53% 6
North East - 3 £57,500 - 4
Northern Ireland +23 1 £50,000 +33.33%
Scotland -15 1 £45,000 -49.30%

VB.NET
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 3 (1.91%) IIS
1 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
1 3 (1.91%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.27%) CMS
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (10.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (4.46%) SystmOne
4 5 (3.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 3 (1.91%) Sage 200
6 2 (1.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 51 (32.48%) Azure
2 21 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.10%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.55%) SaaS
4 4 (2.55%) Zapier
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.91%) Serverless
6 1 (0.64%) AWS
6 1 (0.64%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.64%) Boomi
6 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.64%) GitHub
6 1 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.37%) Ethernet
2 7 (4.46%) Modbus
3 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (37.58%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (5.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.46%) Power BI
6 6 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.55%) Tableau
8 3 (1.91%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.27%) MySQL
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.64%) MS Access
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.64%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) PowerBuilder
2 15 (9.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 14 (8.92%) MSBuild
3 14 (8.92%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.82%) JIRA
5 4 (2.55%) Git
6 3 (1.91%) Postman
6 3 (1.91%) Selenium
6 3 (1.91%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.27%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 32 (20.38%) Finance
2 30 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.83%) Social Skills
4 17 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (10.19%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.73%) Law
7 8 (5.10%) Legal
8 6 (3.82%) Back Office
9 3 (1.91%) Marketing
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.27%) Automotive
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (59.24%) Developer
2 51 (32.48%) .NET Developer
3 35 (22.29%) C# Developer
4 26 (16.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 25 (15.92%) Senior
6 24 (15.29%) Senior Developer
6 24 (15.29%) Software Developer
7 19 (12.10%) Senior .NET Developer
8 16 (10.19%) Consultant
8 16 (10.19%) Senior C# Developer
8 16 (10.19%) Support Consultant
8 16 (10.19%) Technical Consultant
8 16 (10.19%) Technical Support
8 16 (10.19%) Technical Support Consultant
9 15 (9.55%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 15 (9.55%) Software Engineer
10 14 (8.92%) CRM Developer
10 14 (8.92%) Dynamics CRM Developer
11 12 (7.64%) Analyst
12 11 (7.01%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (22.93%) .NET Framework
3 34 (21.66%) ASP.NET
4 26 (16.56%) Web Services
4 26 (16.56%) XML
5 25 (15.92%) HTML
6 21 (13.38%) CSS
7 15 (9.55%) jQuery
7 15 (9.55%) REST
8 13 (8.28%) AngularJS
8 13 (8.28%) JSON
9 12 (7.64%) WinForms
10 10 (6.37%) .NET Core
10 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 9 (5.73%) Entity Framework
11 9 (5.73%) HTML5
11 9 (5.73%) SOAP
11 9 (5.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 7 (4.46%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
1 8 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.46%) NHS
3 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.55%) SCADA
4 3 (1.91%) Arduino
4 3 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.91%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.27%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.27%) Wiki
6 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.47%) Windows
2 7 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.91%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.64%) Android
5 1 (0.64%) Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (22.93%) Agile
3 32 (20.38%) DevOps
4 29 (18.47%) ERP
5 26 (16.56%) Customer Service
5 26 (16.56%) MVC
6 25 (15.92%) Software Engineering
7 21 (13.38%) CRM
8 19 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (10.19%) Accounts Receivable
9 16 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (10.19%) Product Requirements
10 15 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (9.55%) Mentoring
10 15 (9.55%) TDD
11 14 (8.92%) BDD
11 14 (8.92%) OOP
11 14 (8.92%) Release Management
12 13 (8.28%) SDLC
13 12 (7.64%) OO
Programming Languages
1 134 (85.35%) C#
2 102 (64.97%) SQL
3 32 (20.38%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.20%) T-SQL
4 27 (17.20%) VB
5 16 (10.19%) PL/SQL
6 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.10%) VBA
8 6 (3.82%) C
9 5 (3.18%) C++
9 5 (3.18%) Java
9 5 (3.18%) Python
9 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.55%) PHP
11 3 (1.91%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.91%) VB6
12 2 (1.27%) XAML
13 1 (0.64%) COBOL
13 1 (0.64%) Delphi
13 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.28%) Degree
2 10 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (2.55%) vSphere
2 3 (1.91%) VirtualBox
2 3 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 67 (42.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.83%) Oracle
3 5 (3.18%) Infor
4 4 (2.55%) Epicor
4 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.55%) UiPath
5 3 (1.91%) Sage
5 3 (1.91%) VMware
6 2 (1.27%) Intapp
7 1 (0.64%) Charles River
7 1 (0.64%) Citrix
7 1 (0.64%) iManage
7 1 (0.64%) Telerik
7 1 (0.64%) Xamarin