Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VB.NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VB.NET over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 740 735
Rank change year-on-year +102 -5 -206
Permanent jobs citing VB.NET 269 234 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 238 213 438
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £90,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VB.NET.

Salary trend for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VB.NET over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VB.NET in the UK

VB.NET
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VB.NET within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +144 261 £50,000 -9.09% 57
UK excluding London +97 240 £50,000 - 46
Work from Home +97 162 £55,000 - 29
North of England +112 81 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Midlands +32 71 £47,500 +5.56% 18
North West +64 52 £52,500 +10.53% 7
West Midlands +36 44 £47,500 +5.56% 16
South East -8 36 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Yorkshire +99 27 £55,000 +37.50% 4
East Midlands +2 27 £43,000 -18.10% 2
South West -16 26 £55,000 -7.08% 8
East of England +41 24 £35,500 -38.26% 2
London +40 23 £65,000 -16.13% 7
North East -5 2 £32,500 -18.75%
Wales +4 1 - -
Scotland -75 1 £60,000 +2.13%

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 38 (14.13%) IIS
2 5 (1.86%) IBM Notes
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (30.86%) Azure
2 54 (20.07%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.32%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (2.60%) GitHub
5 5 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.49%) AWS
6 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.74%) Zapier
9 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.86%) DHCP
1 5 (1.86%) DNS
1 5 (1.86%) VoIP
2 3 (1.12%) Firewall
2 3 (1.12%) NAS
2 3 (1.12%) SAN
3 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.37%) Intranet
3 1 (0.37%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (61.71%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.06%) MS Access
4 15 (5.58%) Power BI
5 14 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (4.83%) MySQL
7 12 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (4.09%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.60%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.12%) DTS
13 2 (0.74%) Looker
13 2 (0.74%) Tableau
14 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (19.70%) Visual Studio
2 28 (10.41%) Jasmine
2 28 (10.41%) Karma Test Runner
3 22 (8.18%) Git
4 15 (5.58%) Postman
5 11 (4.09%) GitLab
6 5 (1.86%) JIRA
7 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.12%) Moq
8 3 (1.12%) Selenium
8 3 (1.12%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.12%) xUnit.net
9 2 (0.74%) PowerBuilder
10 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 62 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.52%) Retail
3 26 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.43%) Finance
4 20 (7.43%) Manufacturing
5 18 (6.69%) Legal
6 11 (4.09%) Law
7 8 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.60%) Advertising
9 4 (1.49%) Automotive
9 4 (1.49%) Back Office
9 4 (1.49%) Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.12%) Publishing
11 2 (0.74%) Games
11 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.74%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 208 (77.32%) Developer
2 89 (33.09%) .NET Developer
3 54 (20.07%) C# Developer
4 44 (16.36%) Software Developer
5 28 (10.41%) Lead
6 27 (10.04%) VB.NET Developer
7 26 (9.67%) Senior
8 16 (5.95%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (5.95%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.20%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) .NET Software Developer
10 13 (4.83%) Analyst
10 13 (4.83%) Technical Leader
11 12 (4.46%) Database Developer
12 11 (4.09%) Applications Developer
13 10 (3.72%) C# Software Developer
13 10 (3.72%) Web Developer
14 9 (3.35%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.97%) Senior .NET Developer
16 7 (2.60%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (100.00%) .NET
2 97 (36.06%) ASP.NET
3 84 (31.23%) JSON
4 75 (27.88%) REST
5 73 (27.14%) SOAP
6 72 (26.77%) XML
7 63 (23.42%) HTML
7 63 (23.42%) Web Services
8 52 (19.33%) .NET Core
9 45 (16.73%) .NET Framework
10 44 (16.36%) CSS
11 38 (14.13%) AngularJS
12 28 (10.41%) RxJS
12 28 (10.41%) Sass
12 28 (10.41%) XML Schema
13 26 (9.67%) RESTful
14 22 (8.18%) ASP.NET Web API
15 20 (7.43%) React
16 19 (7.06%) Blazor
17 18 (6.69%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (3.35%) EPoS
3 8 (2.97%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.23%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.86%) FMCG
7 4 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.49%) Replication
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.74%) NHS
8 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.37%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.37%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.37%) Lidar
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.37%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.04%) Windows
2 8 (2.97%) Android
3 6 (2.23%) Linux
4 5 (1.86%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.37%) DevOps
2 78 (29.00%) Unit Testing
3 57 (21.19%) Agile
4 43 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (12.64%) Customer Service
6 32 (11.90%) Web Development
7 29 (10.78%) Clean Code
8 28 (10.41%) Mentoring
8 28 (10.41%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (10.04%) MVC
10 25 (9.29%) Design Patterns
11 23 (8.55%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (8.55%) SOLID
12 22 (8.18%) Software Testing
13 21 (7.81%) API Integration
13 21 (7.81%) Software Engineering
14 18 (6.69%) Code Quality
14 18 (6.69%) User Experience
15 17 (6.32%) Architectural Design
16 16 (5.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 228 (84.76%) C#
2 164 (60.97%) SQL
3 111 (41.26%) JavaScript
4 85 (31.60%) T-SQL
5 66 (24.54%) VB
6 35 (13.01%) VB6
7 31 (11.52%) TypeScript
8 25 (9.29%) VBA
9 20 (7.43%) PowerShell
10 14 (5.20%) Java
10 14 (5.20%) Python
11 12 (4.46%) MATLAB
12 11 (4.09%) PHP
13 9 (3.35%) C++
14 7 (2.60%) R
15 6 (2.23%) VBScript
16 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
17 3 (1.12%) XPath
18 2 (0.74%) Go
18 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (7.81%) Degree
2 10 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.35%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.64%) QA
2 6 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.60%) vSphere
4 6 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 114 (42.38%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.58%) Oracle
3 11 (4.09%) Facebook
4 8 (2.97%) VMware
4 8 (2.97%) Xamarin
5 7 (2.60%) YouTube
6 5 (1.86%) DevExpress
6 5 (1.86%) Lotus
7 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.12%) Veeam
8 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.74%) Siemens
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco
9 1 (0.37%) Citrix
9 1 (0.37%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.37%) Symantec