VCL Job Trends in the West Midlands

Visual Component Library (VCL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VCL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VCL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.013% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

VCL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 482 505 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.29% 16.64% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 388 365 1,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,435 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% +7.36% -6.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

VCL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VCL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VCL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VCL

VCL
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 VCL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Birmingham - 1 £57,500 -
VCL
England

VCL
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Pascal
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft