Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 678 822
Rank change year-on-year +99 +144 -117
Contract jobs citing VB6 5 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.031% 0.027%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.091% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 20
10th Percentile £436 £315 £324
25th Percentile £453 £340 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £436
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +26.07% +2.65%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £481
90th Percentile £523 £628 £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £325 £423
% change year-on-year +46.15% -23.08% -0.59%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,722 19,828 31,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.90% 34.62% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,047 14,307 23,128
10th Percentile £350 £390 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £655
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 443 499
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.09 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £60.70 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +20.92% +18.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in the UK

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VB6 in the UK

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in the UK

VB6
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
UK excluding London +48 4 £475 +46.15% 7
Scotland +42 4 £475 -20.83%
Work from Home +107 2 £475 -17.39% 5

VB6
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) WinForms
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) API Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Infragistics
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle