VB6 Contracts

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 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 570 663 821
Rank change year-on-year +93 +158 -101
Contract jobs citing VB6 5 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.034% 0.019%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.099% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 13
10th Percentile £436 £316 £343
25th Percentile £453 £360 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +19.57% +8.24%
75th Percentile £500 £594 £538
90th Percentile £523 £627 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £363 £459
% change year-on-year +31.03% -21.02% +14.75%

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 12,939 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%

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 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
Scotland +40 4 £475 -20.83%
UK excluding London +32 4 £475 +31.03% 4
Work from Home +105 2 £475 -13.64% 4

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