VB.NET Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 563 618
Rank change year-on-year +40 +55 +2
Contract jobs citing VB.NET 52 119 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.62% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 100 184
10th Percentile £384 - £350
25th Percentile £400 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £538
90th Percentile £750 £576 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £15.98 £37.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.81% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 - -

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 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +33 48 £425 +6.25% 75
London +60 32 £400 - 16
Work from Home +55 18 £488 +21.88% 35
UK excluding London +23 16 £450 +2.86% 63
Yorkshire +21 6 £425 -5.56% 5
North of England +14 6 £425 +2.41% 13
South East +11 5 £500 -16.67% 12
East of England +6 2 £425 +68.65% 2
Midlands +21 1 £338 -28.95% 26
Wales +18 1 £375 -11.76% 2
West Midlands +12 1 £338 -28.95% 24
South West +6 1 £625 +38.89% 5

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 2 (3.85%) WildFly
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (13.46%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Endur
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.92%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.85%) AWS
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) DHCP
1 3 (5.77%) DNS
1 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 15 (28.85%) Oracle Database
3 5 (9.62%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.85%) MS Access
7 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.92%) Power BI
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) Hudson
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Front Office
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (71.15%) Developer
2 21 (40.38%) .NET Developer
3 12 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
3 12 (23.08%) C# Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 7 (13.46%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Endur Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) OpenLink Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) .NET Applications Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (38.46%) .NET Framework
3 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET
3 6 (11.54%) HTML
4 5 (9.62%) Blazor
4 5 (9.62%) CSS
4 5 (9.62%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.77%) J2EE
5 3 (5.77%) WinForms
6 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (3.85%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.85%) JSON
6 2 (3.85%) React
6 2 (3.85%) WPF
7 1 (1.92%) MDX
7 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Ubuntu
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.85%) Computer Science
3 14 (26.92%) Data Analysis
3 14 (26.92%) DevOps
4 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
5 8 (15.38%) Agile
5 8 (15.38%) ITIL
5 8 (15.38%) Release Management
6 7 (13.46%) Economics
6 7 (13.46%) OO
6 7 (13.46%) OOP
6 7 (13.46%) SDLC
6 7 (13.46%) Thought Leadership
6 7 (13.46%) Web Application Development
7 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (9.62%) Batch Scripting
9 4 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (7.69%) Incident Management
10 3 (5.77%) Knowledge Management
10 3 (5.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) C#
2 38 (73.08%) SQL
3 24 (46.15%) VBA
4 17 (32.69%) PL/SQL
5 15 (28.85%) T-SQL
6 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 12 (23.08%) VB
7 11 (21.15%) C++
8 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
9 4 (7.69%) MATLAB
10 3 (5.77%) Java
11 2 (3.85%) Python
11 2 (3.85%) R
11 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (5.77%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (5.77%) vSphere
2 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) WSUS
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Oracle
2 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.54%) Citrix
4 5 (9.62%) OpenLink
5 3 (5.77%) VMware
6 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.92%) Infor
7 1 (1.92%) Qualys