Hybrid/Remote VB Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring VB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 373 398
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +84
Permanent jobs citing VB 8 29 153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.047% 0.21% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.18% 0.47% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 97
10th Percentile £55,500 £45,470 £38,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,750 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.22% -2.31% -5.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £59,000
90th Percentile - £62,375 £62,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -8.90%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,473 6,170 13,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 45.73% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 4,510 11,369
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,975 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VB and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VB job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VB

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) Tableau
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Legal
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Software Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) CSS3
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) LESS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Sass
2 2 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (75.00%) Validation
2 5 (62.50%) Asset Management
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (62.50%) Contract Management
2 5 (62.50%) Data Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (62.50%) KYC
2 5 (62.50%) Software Asset Management
2 5 (62.50%) Software Licensing
2 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) VBA
1 5 (62.50%) VBScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe
2 5 (62.50%) IBM
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) Snow
2 5 (62.50%) VMware