VB.NET Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VB.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 192 158
Rank change year-on-year +17 -34 +91
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 3 13 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.057% 0.30% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 1.18% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £37,125 £33,125 £38,500
25th Percentile £37,688 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £42,063 £56,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £42,175 £58,750 -
England median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +6.80%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 713 1,105 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.53% 25.63% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 580 566 937
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,344 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +3.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,050
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VB.NET job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VB.NET
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB.NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB.NET

VB.NET
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Herefordshire - 1 £41,000 -
VB.NET
England

VB.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) Crystal Reports
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Infor