Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VB.NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VB.NET over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 596 601
Rank change year-on-year +56 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 60 120 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.58% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 97 227
10th Percentile £349 - £350
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.03%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £534
90th Percentile £741 £580 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £415 £400
% change year-on-year +6.33% +3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,769 20,585 32,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.85% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,080 14,839 23,447
10th Percentile £350 £394 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 463 509
10th Percentile £31.70 £26.15 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.80 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £60.63 £49.75
% change year-on-year +3.09% +21.86% +19.16%

VB.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VB.NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB.NET.

Daily rate trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB.NET over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB.NET.

Hourly rate trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +69 56 £400 - 60
London +82 38 £400 - 7
Work from Home +86 25 £475 +18.75% 31
UK excluding London +45 18 £441 +6.33% 49
North of England +24 6 £425 +2.41% 11
Yorkshire +23 6 £425 -5.56% 5
South East +21 5 £500 -16.67% 7
Midlands +28 3 £290 -37.30% 21
West Midlands +22 3 £290 -37.30% 18
East of England +15 2 £429 +70.14% 1
South West +23 1 £625 +13.64% 8
Wales +15 1 £375 -11.76%

VB.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) IIS
1 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.67%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Endur
2 1 (1.67%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) DHCP
1 3 (5.00%) DNS
1 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 16 (26.67%) Oracle Database
3 5 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.33%) Power BI
7 1 (1.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Hudson
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.00%) Finance
3 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Front Office
5 2 (3.33%) Local Government
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Developer
2 27 (45.00%) .NET Developer
3 17 (28.33%) C# Developer
4 16 (26.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (11.67%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (6.67%) Applications Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Endur Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) OpenLink Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.33%) .NET Applications Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Analyst Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) SQL DBA
9 2 (3.33%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (8.33%) Blazor
4 5 (8.33%) CSS
4 5 (8.33%) HTML
4 5 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.67%) JSON
5 4 (6.67%) React
6 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.00%) WinForms
6 3 (5.00%) WPF
6 3 (5.00%) XML
7 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 17 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 11 (18.33%) DevOps
4 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.67%) Agile
5 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 9 (15.00%) Release Management
7 8 (13.33%) ITIL
8 7 (11.67%) Economics
8 7 (11.67%) SDLC
8 7 (11.67%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (8.33%) Batch Scripting
9 5 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.33%) OO
9 5 (8.33%) OOP
9 5 (8.33%) Web Application Development
10 4 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.67%) Incident Management
10 4 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (85.00%) C#
2 44 (73.33%) SQL
3 30 (50.00%) VBA
4 22 (36.67%) PL/SQL
5 21 (35.00%) T-SQL
6 16 (26.67%) VB
7 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 10 (16.67%) C++
9 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
10 4 (6.67%) MATLAB
11 3 (5.00%) Java
11 3 (5.00%) Python
11 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Oracle
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.33%) Citrix
4 5 (8.33%) OpenLink
5 4 (6.67%) UiPath
6 3 (5.00%) Blue Prism
6 3 (5.00%) VMware
7 2 (3.33%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.67%) Infor
8 1 (1.67%) Qualys