VB6 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 435 485
Rank change year-on-year +48 +50 -45
Contract jobs citing VB6 4 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.039% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.083% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £433 £310 £349
25th Percentile £444 £316 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £423
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -23.08% -0.59%
75th Percentile £513 £469 £460
90th Percentile £528 £563 £490
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £436
% change year-on-year -13.64% +26.07% +2.65%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,807 6,532 8,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.73% 28.53% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,244 4,600 6,085
10th Percentile £316 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 329 333
10th Percentile £37.74 £23.84 £17.05
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.45%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB6 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB6 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB6 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Scotland +43 4 £475 -20.83%
VB6
UK

VB6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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