VB6 Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VB6 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 - 222
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Permanent jobs citing VB6 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.015% - 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% - 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £43,875
25th Percentile £31,250 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile £33,750 - £62,813
90th Percentile - - £63,750
England median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.50% -16.67% +2.13%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

VB6 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 806 910 1,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.17% 25.24% 28.09%
Number of salaries quoted 640 587 1,540
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VB6 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

VB6 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VB6
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB6.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VB6

VB6
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 VB6 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Wolverhampton - 1 £32,500 - 1
VB6
England

VB6
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CAD
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) VB