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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 746 718
Rank change year-on-year +109 -28 -185
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 270 235 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.54% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 238 213 437
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £90,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.50%

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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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 +141 262 £50,000 -9.09% 64
UK excluding London +86 241 £50,000 - 51
Work from Home +91 162 £55,000 - 32
North of England +107 81 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Midlands +25 71 £47,500 +5.56% 21
North West +53 52 £52,500 +10.53% 8
West Midlands +23 44 £47,500 +5.56% 18
South East +2 37 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Yorkshire +98 27 £55,000 +37.50% 4
East Midlands +2 27 £43,000 -18.10% 3
South West -15 26 £55,000 -7.08% 9
East of England +39 24 £35,500 -38.26% 2
London +52 23 £65,000 -16.13% 8
North East -7 2 £32,500 -18.75%
Wales +7 1 - -
Scotland -68 1 £60,000 +2.13%

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 38 (14.07%) IIS
2 5 (1.85%) IBM Notes
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (30.74%) Azure
2 54 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.30%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (2.59%) GitHub
5 5 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.48%) AWS
6 4 (1.48%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.11%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.74%) Zapier
9 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.85%) DHCP
1 5 (1.85%) DNS
1 5 (1.85%) VoIP
2 3 (1.11%) Firewall
2 3 (1.11%) NAS
2 3 (1.11%) SAN
3 2 (0.74%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.37%) RS-232
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (61.48%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.04%) MS Access
4 15 (5.56%) Power BI
5 14 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (4.81%) MySQL
7 12 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (4.07%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.59%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.11%) DTS
13 2 (0.74%) Looker
13 2 (0.74%) Tableau
14 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 28 (10.37%) Jasmine
2 28 (10.37%) Karma Test Runner
3 22 (8.15%) Git
4 15 (5.56%) Postman
5 11 (4.07%) GitLab
6 5 (1.85%) JIRA
7 4 (1.48%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.11%) Moq
8 3 (1.11%) Selenium
8 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.11%) xUnit.net
9 2 (0.74%) PowerBuilder
10 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 62 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.48%) Retail
3 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.41%) Finance
4 20 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 18 (6.67%) Legal
6 11 (4.07%) Law
7 8 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.59%) Advertising
9 4 (1.48%) Automotive
9 4 (1.48%) Back Office
9 4 (1.48%) Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.11%) Publishing
11 2 (0.74%) Games
11 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.74%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 208 (77.04%) Developer
2 89 (32.96%) .NET Developer
3 54 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 44 (16.30%) Software Developer
5 28 (10.37%) Lead
6 27 (10.00%) VB.NET Developer
7 26 (9.63%) Senior
8 16 (5.93%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (5.93%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) .NET Software Developer
10 13 (4.81%) Analyst
10 13 (4.81%) Technical Leader
11 12 (4.44%) Database Developer
12 11 (4.07%) Applications Developer
13 10 (3.70%) C# Software Developer
13 10 (3.70%) Web Developer
14 9 (3.33%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.96%) Senior .NET Developer
16 7 (2.59%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (100.00%) .NET
2 97 (35.93%) ASP.NET
3 84 (31.11%) JSON
4 75 (27.78%) REST
5 73 (27.04%) SOAP
6 72 (26.67%) XML
7 63 (23.33%) HTML
7 63 (23.33%) Web Services
8 52 (19.26%) .NET Core
9 45 (16.67%) .NET Framework
10 44 (16.30%) CSS
11 38 (14.07%) AngularJS
12 28 (10.37%) RxJS
12 28 (10.37%) Sass
12 28 (10.37%) XML Schema
13 26 (9.63%) RESTful
14 22 (8.15%) ASP.NET Web API
15 20 (7.41%) React
16 19 (7.04%) Blazor
17 18 (6.67%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (3.33%) EPoS
3 8 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.59%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.85%) FMCG
7 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.48%) Replication
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.74%) NHS
8 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.37%) Arduino
9 1 (0.37%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.37%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.37%) Lidar
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.37%) Optoelectronics
9 1 (0.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.37%) Windows
2 8 (2.96%) Android
3 6 (2.22%) Linux
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.26%) DevOps
2 78 (28.89%) Unit Testing
3 57 (21.11%) Agile
4 43 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (12.59%) Customer Service
6 32 (11.85%) Web Development
7 29 (10.74%) Clean Code
8 28 (10.37%) Mentoring
8 28 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (10.00%) MVC
10 25 (9.26%) Design Patterns
11 23 (8.52%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (8.52%) SOLID
12 22 (8.15%) Software Engineering
12 22 (8.15%) Software Testing
13 21 (7.78%) API Integration
14 18 (6.67%) Code Quality
14 18 (6.67%) User Experience
15 17 (6.30%) Architectural Design
16 16 (5.93%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 229 (84.81%) C#
2 164 (60.74%) SQL
3 111 (41.11%) JavaScript
4 85 (31.48%) T-SQL
5 66 (24.44%) VB
6 35 (12.96%) VB6
7 31 (11.48%) TypeScript
8 25 (9.26%) VBA
9 20 (7.41%) PowerShell
10 14 (5.19%) Java
10 14 (5.19%) Python
11 12 (4.44%) MATLAB
12 11 (4.07%) PHP
13 10 (3.70%) C++
14 7 (2.59%) R
15 6 (2.22%) VBScript
16 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
17 3 (1.11%) XPath
18 2 (0.74%) Go
18 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (7.78%) Degree
2 10 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.59%) QA
2 6 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 9 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.59%) vSphere
3 6 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.37%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 114 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.56%) Oracle
3 11 (4.07%) Facebook
4 9 (3.33%) VMware
5 8 (2.96%) Xamarin
6 7 (2.59%) YouTube
7 5 (1.85%) DevExpress
7 5 (1.85%) Lotus
8 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.11%) Veeam
9 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.74%) Siemens
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco
10 1 (0.37%) Citrix
10 1 (0.37%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.37%) Symantec