VB Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VB 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 482 555 542
Rank change year-on-year +73 -13 -79
Permanent jobs citing VB 304 182 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 0.83% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 248 146 193
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £27,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,931 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,285 £60,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +22.36% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

VB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the UK excluding London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +38 79 £50,000 +17.65% 12
South East +30 70 £54,000 +8.00% 24
North of England +32 65 £50,000 -8.90% 16
East of England +39 47 £40,000 -15.79% 6
North West +25 46 £52,500 +54.41% 11
East Midlands +11 40 £47,500 +18.75% 2
West Midlands +8 39 £55,000 +22.22% 10
South West -21 34 £32,500 -35.00% 9
Yorkshire +30 16 £47,500 -22.36% 2
Scotland -61 6 £47,500 -13.45% 1
Wales -3 3 £32,500 -27.78%
North East - 3 £47,500 - 3
VB
UK

VB
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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (9.87%) IIS
2 21 (6.91%) Apache
3 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) Liferay
5 2 (0.66%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.66%) Fusion 360
3 2 (0.66%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.96%) Shopify
2 2 (0.66%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.66%) SAP MII
2 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.33%) Azure
2 32 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 32 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (7.89%) Entra ID
3 24 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.57%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (5.59%) Azure Storage
6 9 (2.96%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.30%) AWS
8 6 (1.97%) GitHub
9 5 (1.64%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.64%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.66%) npm
10 2 (0.66%) PaaS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.33%) Firebase
11 1 (0.33%) GCP
11 1 (0.33%) SaaS
11 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.57%) DHCP
1 23 (7.57%) DNS
2 17 (5.59%) Firewall
3 13 (4.28%) Internet
4 8 (2.63%) 5G
4 8 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 8 (2.63%) WAN
5 5 (1.64%) HTTP
5 5 (1.64%) Wireless
6 4 (1.32%) FTP
7 3 (0.99%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.33%) Profibus
9 1 (0.33%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (38.82%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.24%) Power BI
4 21 (6.91%) MongoDB
5 18 (5.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (5.26%) MS Access
7 15 (4.93%) MySQL
8 12 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.64%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.32%) Tableau
13 2 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.66%) DB2
13 2 (0.66%) DTS
13 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 1 (0.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 44 (14.47%) Visual Studio
2 28 (9.21%) Jasmine
2 28 (9.21%) Karma Test Runner
3 17 (5.59%) JIRA
4 11 (3.62%) InstallShield
5 6 (1.97%) AdminStudio
5 6 (1.97%) Dreamweaver
5 6 (1.97%) MSI
6 5 (1.64%) Git
7 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.66%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.66%) Bower
8 2 (0.66%) gulp
8 2 (0.66%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.66%) Moq
8 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.33%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.33%) JUnit
9 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 76 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.55%) Finance
4 22 (7.24%) Retail
5 20 (6.58%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.29%) Law
6 10 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.96%) Electronics
7 9 (2.96%) Marketing
7 9 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.63%) Legal
9 7 (2.30%) Advertising
9 7 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Automotive
10 5 (1.64%) Police
11 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.99%) Games
12 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (38.82%) Developer
2 41 (13.49%) Support Engineer
3 30 (9.87%) C# Developer
4 26 (8.55%) Senior
5 24 (7.89%) Software Support Engineer
6 23 (7.57%) Active Directory Specialist
6 23 (7.57%) Azure Specialist
7 22 (7.24%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.91%) Software Developer
9 20 (6.58%) .NET Developer
10 17 (5.59%) Active Directory Support
10 17 (5.59%) Support Specialist
11 15 (4.93%) Analyst
12 13 (4.28%) IT Technician
12 13 (4.28%) Lead
13 12 (3.95%) Senior IT Technician
13 12 (3.95%) Senior Technician
13 12 (3.95%) VMware Engineer
13 12 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.95%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (53.95%) .NET
2 72 (23.68%) ASP.NET
3 63 (20.72%) XML
4 62 (20.39%) Web Services
5 52 (17.11%) HTML
6 51 (16.78%) REST
7 50 (16.45%) JSON
7 50 (16.45%) SOAP
8 44 (14.47%) AngularJS
9 28 (9.21%) RxJS
9 28 (9.21%) Sass
9 28 (9.21%) XML Schema
10 19 (6.25%) CSS
11 17 (5.59%) ARM Templates
12 16 (5.26%) MFC
13 15 (4.93%) .NET Core
14 14 (4.61%) RESTful
15 13 (4.28%) HTML5
16 12 (3.95%) .NET Framework
17 11 (3.62%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.17%) Enterprise Software
2 36 (11.84%) PKI
3 29 (9.54%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.93%) Clustering
5 12 (3.95%) SCADA
6 9 (2.96%) EPoS
6 9 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.63%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.63%) FPGA
7 8 (2.63%) GNSS
7 8 (2.63%) MicroBlaze
7 8 (2.63%) Smart Meter
7 8 (2.63%) VHDL
8 6 (1.97%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.97%) Shadow IT
9 5 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.64%) Life Science
9 5 (1.64%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 88 (28.95%) Windows
2 74 (24.34%) Linux
3 44 (14.47%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (7.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (6.91%) AIX
6 18 (5.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (3.95%) Windows 10
8 11 (3.62%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.64%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.66%) Android
10 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (20.72%) Agile
3 59 (19.41%) DevOps
4 48 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 39 (12.83%) Customer Service
5 39 (12.83%) Project Management
6 31 (10.20%) Analytics
6 31 (10.20%) Release Management
7 30 (9.87%) ERP
8 29 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (9.21%) OO
9 28 (9.21%) Unit Testing
9 28 (9.21%) User Acceptance Testing
10 24 (7.89%) ITIL
11 23 (7.57%) B2B
11 23 (7.57%) Computer Science
11 23 (7.57%) Log Analytics
11 23 (7.57%) Service Management
12 22 (7.24%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (6.91%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 192 (63.16%) C#
2 173 (56.91%) SQL
3 80 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 69 (22.70%) VB.NET
5 62 (20.39%) PowerShell
6 57 (18.75%) C
7 55 (18.09%) C++
8 48 (15.79%) T-SQL
9 43 (14.14%) VB6
10 41 (13.49%) VBScript
11 38 (12.50%) TypeScript
12 28 (9.21%) Python
13 22 (7.24%) Java
14 17 (5.59%) ActionScript
14 17 (5.59%) Bicep
14 17 (5.59%) VBA
15 16 (5.26%) Assembly Language
15 16 (5.26%) PHP
16 11 (3.62%) Perl
17 9 (2.96%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 105 (34.54%) Degree
2 36 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.87%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.57%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.96%) HNC
8 6 (1.97%) HND
9 5 (1.64%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.32%) PhD
11 3 (0.99%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.47%) QA
2 12 (3.95%) SLA
3 5 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.32%) GDPR
5 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (16.78%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (4.28%) OpenSSH
4 13 (4.28%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (4.28%) vSphere
4 13 (4.28%) XenApp
5 8 (2.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (2.63%) Firmware
6 6 (1.97%) Docker
6 6 (1.97%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (7.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 23 (7.57%) SCCM
1 23 (7.57%) WSUS
2 21 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (5.59%) SCOM
4 13 (4.28%) IBM BigFix
4 13 (4.28%) PowerCLI
4 13 (4.28%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 123 (40.46%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.20%) Oracle
3 19 (6.25%) VMware
4 13 (4.28%) Citrix
4 13 (4.28%) IBM
5 8 (2.63%) Altera
5 8 (2.63%) Green Hills
5 8 (2.63%) Motorola
5 8 (2.63%) SAP
5 8 (2.63%) Xilinx
6 7 (2.30%) Facebook
6 7 (2.30%) YouTube
7 6 (1.97%) Autodesk
7 6 (1.97%) Google
7 6 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.64%) Apple
9 4 (1.32%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.99%) Siemens
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco
11 2 (0.66%) Epicor