VB6 Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for VB6 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VB6 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 160 172
Rank change year-on-year +44 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing VB6 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.037% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 0.11% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £433 - £398
25th Percentile £444 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £423
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +42.01% -0.59%
75th Percentile £513 - £446
90th Percentile £528 - £463
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £436
% change year-on-year -13.64% +26.07% +2.65%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

VB6 is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 608 923 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.61% 34.02% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 658 688
10th Percentile £356 £406 £373
25th Percentile £413 £433 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +1.98% +12.94%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £550
90th Percentile £650 £657 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in Scotland

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB6 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for VB6 in Scotland

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB6 in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in Scotland

VB6
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
VB6
UK

VB6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Infragistics
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle