VB Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for VB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VB over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 113 134
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 -54
Contract jobs citing VB 17 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.86% 0.11% 0.042%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 0.46% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile - £208 -
25th Percentile £603 £242 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £308 £413
Median % change year-on-year +96.75% -25.45% -3.51%
75th Percentile £608 £377 £431
90th Percentile - £413 -
South East median daily rate £605 £308 £225
% change year-on-year +96.75% +36.67% -47.06%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 372 434 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.88% 23.90% 22.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 321 387
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £413 £431 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 4
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.99 £63.18
25th Percentile £56.65 £53.59 £64.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.04% +88.26%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £82.18
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.72 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VB in Berkshire

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for VB in Berkshire

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in Berkshire

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VB in Berkshire

VB
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Reading - 17 £605 - 2
VB
South East

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 15 (88.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
1 16 (94.12%) Azure Monitor
1 16 (94.12%) Azure Storage
1 16 (94.12%) Entra ID
2 15 (88.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) DHCP
1 16 (94.12%) DNS
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (88.24%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (82.35%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (82.35%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (94.12%) PKI
1 16 (94.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 15 (88.24%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Windows Server
2 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
1 16 (94.12%) Analytics
1 16 (94.12%) Identity Management
1 16 (94.12%) ITIL
1 16 (94.12%) Log Analytics
1 16 (94.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 16 (94.12%) Privileged Identity Management
1 16 (94.12%) RBAC
1 16 (94.12%) Release Management
1 16 (94.12%) Service Management
2 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
1 16 (94.12%) PowerShell
1 16 (94.12%) VBScript
2 15 (88.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) DV Cleared
1 16 (94.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory
1 16 (94.12%) Virtual Desktop
1 16 (94.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (94.12%) SCCM
1 16 (94.12%) SCOM
1 16 (94.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.88%) Mavenir
2 1 (5.88%) Nokia