Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VB.NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VB.NET over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 573 755 567
Rank change year-on-year +182 -188 -103
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 157 323 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 0.57% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 122 258 481
10th Percentile £40,125 £34,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Programming Languages
UK

VB.NET is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,547 56,460 66,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 45.96% 52.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 35,996 45,555
10th Percentile £39,730 £38,442 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,788 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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 +191 140 £55,000 +10.00% 53
UK excluding London +150 101 £55,000 +10.00% 42
Work from Home +163 82 £55,000 +10.00% 30
London +216 46 £70,000 +16.67% 10
South East +120 37 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Midlands +107 25 £50,000 - 11
West Midlands +110 20 £50,000 +11.11% 10
North of England +114 19 £55,000 +30.95% 13
Yorkshire +106 13 £55,000 +19.57% 4
East of England +120 7 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Scotland +25 7 £87,500 +59.09% 1
North West +97 6 £43,000 -18.10% 7
East Midlands +45 5 £47,500 -24.00% 1
South West +70 2 - - 5
Wales +12 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

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 7 (4.46%) IIS
2 1 (0.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.64%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Elite 3E
1 2 (1.27%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.11%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) Power Platform
3 21 (13.38%) PowerApps
4 9 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.46%) SaaS
6 5 (3.18%) AWS
6 5 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.27%) Zapier
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.64%) GitHub
9 1 (0.64%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DHCP
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) Firewall
1 2 (1.27%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (1.27%) RTP
1 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.64%) RS-232
2 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (61.78%) SQL Server
2 25 (15.92%) Oracle Reports
3 24 (15.29%) JasperReports
4 22 (14.01%) Power BI
5 12 (7.64%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (3.82%) DB2
8 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.55%) MySQL
9 3 (1.91%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (1.27%) ActiveReports
10 2 (1.27%) CouchDB
10 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.27%) MS Access
10 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.27%) Tableau
11 1 (0.64%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 24 (15.29%) Maven
1 24 (15.29%) Selenium
1 24 (15.29%) Visual Studio
2 20 (12.74%) Git
3 7 (4.46%) Postman
4 6 (3.82%) JIRA
5 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.27%) Subversion
6 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.27%) TestComplete
6 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.64%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.64%) git-flow
General
1 26 (16.56%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.74%) Finance
4 12 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Law
5 6 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Back Office
6 5 (3.18%) Legal
6 5 (3.18%) Retail
7 4 (2.55%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Advertising
8 2 (1.27%) Automotive
8 2 (1.27%) Publishing
9 1 (0.64%) Electronics
9 1 (0.64%) French Language
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (82.80%) Developer
2 79 (50.32%) .NET Developer
3 58 (36.94%) Senior
4 47 (29.94%) VB.NET Developer
5 45 (28.66%) Senior Developer
6 41 (26.11%) Software Developer
7 35 (22.29%) Senior .NET Developer
8 24 (15.29%) Senior VB.NET Developer
9 16 (10.19%) C# Developer
10 12 (7.64%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
12 10 (6.37%) .NET Software Developer
13 9 (5.73%) C# VB.NET Developer
13 9 (5.73%) Graduate
14 8 (5.10%) Analyst
14 8 (5.10%) Graduate Developer
14 8 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 5 (3.18%) Graduate Software Developer
16 4 (2.55%) Senior Software Developer
17 3 (1.91%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (28.66%) XML
3 43 (27.39%) ASP.NET
4 39 (24.84%) HTML
5 37 (23.57%) CSS
6 33 (21.02%) .NET Framework
7 28 (17.83%) .NET Core
8 24 (15.29%) Spring
9 19 (12.10%) AngularJS
9 19 (12.10%) Web Services
10 17 (10.83%) REST
11 15 (9.55%) jQuery
12 14 (8.92%) SOAP
12 14 (8.92%) WPF
13 12 (7.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 11 (7.01%) HTML5
15 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (5.10%) Entity Framework
16 8 (5.10%) React
17 7 (4.46%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.19%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.46%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (3.18%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.55%) FMCG
5 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Eurex
6 2 (1.27%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.64%) Equities
7 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Lidar
7 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.64%) Optoelectronics
7 1 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.28%) Windows
2 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.27%) Linux
4 2 (1.27%) Solaris
4 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.03%) Agile
2 35 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (21.66%) Unit Testing
4 31 (19.75%) MVC
5 28 (17.83%) Computer Science
6 24 (15.29%) Actionable Insight
6 24 (15.29%) Secure Coding
7 21 (13.38%) DevOps
8 18 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (11.46%) Test Automation
9 17 (10.83%) IT Strategy
9 17 (10.83%) Software Engineering
10 16 (10.19%) Web Development
11 15 (9.55%) User Experience
12 14 (8.92%) Code Optimisation
13 12 (7.64%) Mentoring
13 12 (7.64%) OO
14 11 (7.01%) Design Patterns
14 11 (7.01%) OOP
15 8 (5.10%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 118 (75.16%) C#
2 105 (66.88%) SQL
3 50 (31.85%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.20%) Java
5 24 (15.29%) T-SQL
6 17 (10.83%) VB
7 9 (5.73%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.82%) VBA
9 5 (3.18%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.55%) VB6
10 4 (2.55%) VBScript
11 3 (1.91%) PHP
11 3 (1.91%) Python
12 2 (1.27%) C
13 1 (0.64%) C++
13 1 (0.64%) COBOL
13 1 (0.64%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.64%) PL/1
13 1 (0.64%) VC++
Qualifications
1 40 (25.48%) Degree
2 27 (17.20%) Security Cleared
3 25 (15.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.64%) CCNA
5 1 (0.64%) CCNP
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.64%) MCDST
5 1 (0.64%) MCITP
5 1 (0.64%) MCP
5 1 (0.64%) MCSA
5 1 (0.64%) MCSE
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.47%) Oracle
3 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.91%) SAP
4 2 (1.27%) Aderant
4 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.27%) Cisco
4 2 (1.27%) CQG
4 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
4 2 (1.27%) Patsystems
4 2 (1.27%) Quadient
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.27%) Reuters
4 2 (1.27%) Sage
4 2 (1.27%) Trayport
4 2 (1.27%) VMware
4 2 (1.27%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.64%) Google
5 1 (0.64%) InterSystems