VB6 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VB6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VB6 over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 426 496
Rank change year-on-year +39 +70 -52
Contract jobs citing VB6 4 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.044% 0.033%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.079% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £433 £310 £418
25th Percentile £444 £318 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £460
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -21.11% +22.53%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £481
90th Percentile £528 £556 £515
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £468
% change year-on-year -13.64% +17.65% +16.88%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

VB6 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,033 6,321 8,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.84% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,333 4,416 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £339
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £593 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 324 325
10th Percentile £37.54 £26.86 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.12 £78.00 £67.36
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £51.38
% change year-on-year +2.97% +18.15% +14.80%

VB6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VB6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB6 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB6 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VB6 in the UK excluding London

VB6
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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%
VB6
UK

VB6
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) API Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Infragistics
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle