VB Job Trends in Watford

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring VB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VB 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 1.00% - 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.77% - 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25,250 - £22,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 - £23,500
75th Percentile £27,750 - £24,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £43,085 - £23,500
% change year-on-year - - -69.68%

All Programming Languages
Watford

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 in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 53 67 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 26.37% 37.22% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 53 32 48
10th Percentile £29,265 £29,275 £33,006
25th Percentile £32,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,551 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.08% +10.64% -21.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £76,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Watford.

VB job vacancy trend in Watford

VB
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing VB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing VB

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Google