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 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 592 635 744
Rank change year-on-year +43 +109 -38
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 100 266 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 0.80% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 91 235 221
10th Percentile £41,250 £29,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £64,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +11.11%

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 15,622 33,278 45,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 33.79% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,533 25,047 28,788
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
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.NET within the UK 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
England +25 100 £60,000 +20.00% 29
Work from Home +109 71 £55,000 - 21
UK excluding London +28 55 £50,500 +1.00% 24
London +132 44 £65,000 - 6
South East +101 27 £42,500 -15.00% 3
South West +93 12 £55,000 - 2
Midlands +19 7 £50,000 +6.38% 9
North of England +11 7 £52,500 - 6
West Midlands +12 5 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Yorkshire +52 3 £52,500 -4.55% 4
North West -17 3 £55,000 +4.76% 3
East of England +35 2 £46,250 +30.28% 4
East Midlands +25 2 £45,000 +4.65% 4
North East +49 1 £45,000 +38.46%

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 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Chatbot
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.00%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.00%) Azure
2 20 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 9 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.00%) SaaS
7 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (54.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (32.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (31.00%) DB2
3 31 (31.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (11.00%) Power BI
5 10 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (3.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.00%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.00%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 53 (53.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Local Government
5 4 (4.00%) Automotive
5 4 (4.00%) Law
5 4 (4.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.00%) Advertising
7 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Publishing
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 51 (51.00%) Developer
2 31 (31.00%) Analyst
3 30 (30.00%) Applications Support
3 30 (30.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 30 (30.00%) Senior
3 30 (30.00%) Support Analyst
4 25 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
5 24 (24.00%) Senior Applications Support
5 24 (24.00%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
5 24 (24.00%) Senior Support Analyst
6 23 (23.00%) .NET Developer
7 11 (11.00%) Software Developer
7 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
7 11 (11.00%) VB.NET Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Automation Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Robotics Developer
9 5 (5.00%) C# Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Development Manager
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 22 (22.00%) .NET Framework
4 12 (12.00%) HTML
5 10 (10.00%) CSS
6 7 (7.00%) Entity Framework
7 6 (6.00%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.00%) LESS
7 6 (6.00%) WPF
7 6 (6.00%) XML
8 4 (4.00%) EDI
9 3 (3.00%) JSON
9 3 (3.00%) SOAP
9 3 (3.00%) Web Services
9 3 (3.00%) WinForms
10 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.00%) HTML5
10 2 (2.00%) OGRE
10 2 (2.00%) REST
10 2 (2.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.00%) Robotics
3 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.00%) FMCG
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.00%) Mentoring
2 22 (22.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 22 (22.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
4 14 (14.00%) ITSM
5 13 (13.00%) Agile
5 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (11.00%) ERP
7 10 (10.00%) Clean Code
7 10 (10.00%) DevOps
8 9 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.00%) Proactive Maintenance
8 9 (9.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (9.00%) Service Delivery
9 8 (8.00%) Customer Service
9 8 (8.00%) MVC
9 8 (8.00%) Software Testing
10 7 (7.00%) Service Management
10 7 (7.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 82 (82.00%) C#
2 65 (65.00%) SQL
3 31 (31.00%) PL/SQL
4 21 (21.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (17.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.00%) VB
6 4 (4.00%) VB6
7 3 (3.00%) C++
8 2 (2.00%) VBScript
9 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.00%) VBA
9 1 (1.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
Vendors
1 39 (39.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.00%) Epicor
3 7 (7.00%) SolarWinds
3 7 (7.00%) UiPath
4 4 (4.00%) Intapp
5 2 (2.00%) Aderant
5 2 (2.00%) eFront
5 2 (2.00%) SAP
5 2 (2.00%) Telerik