VB Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 217 237
Rank change year-on-year +48 +20 -62
Contract jobs citing VB 31 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.59% 0.56% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 18
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £481 £185 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £308 £263
Median % change year-on-year +96.75% +17.14% -38.24%
75th Percentile £608 £694 £424
90th Percentile - - £458
England median daily rate £400 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,196 1,615 2,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.65% 27.71% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,151 1,367
10th Percentile £325 £333 £339
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 87
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VB in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +20 18 £605 +218.42% 3
Berkshire +10 17 £605 +96.75% 3
Hampshire - 7 £550 - 5
Surrey +15 6 £425 -38.18% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £340 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (48.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) Azure
2 16 (51.61%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (51.61%) Azure Storage
2 16 (51.61%) Entra ID
3 15 (48.39%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (51.61%) DHCP
1 16 (51.61%) DNS
1 16 (51.61%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Axure RP
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) French Language
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (48.39%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (45.16%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (45.16%) Support Specialist
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) PKI
1 16 (51.61%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (16.13%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Windows
2 15 (48.39%) Linux
2 15 (48.39%) Windows Server
2 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (48.39%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (22.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) Analytics
2 16 (51.61%) Identity Management
2 16 (51.61%) ITIL
2 16 (51.61%) Log Analytics
2 16 (51.61%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 16 (51.61%) Privileged Identity Management
2 16 (51.61%) RBAC
2 16 (51.61%) Release Management
2 16 (51.61%) Service Management
3 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 15 (48.39%) DevOps
3 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (19.35%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (19.35%) SDLC
4 6 (19.35%) Test Strategy
5 5 (16.13%) Software Distribution
6 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (12.90%) ETL
6 4 (12.90%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) PowerShell
1 23 (74.19%) VBScript
2 16 (51.61%) C#
3 15 (48.39%) Bicep
4 6 (19.35%) SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (51.61%) DV Cleared
2 16 (51.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (51.61%) SC Cleared
3 15 (48.39%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (51.61%) Active Directory
1 16 (51.61%) Virtual Desktop
1 16 (51.61%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.45%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) SCCM
2 16 (51.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (51.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (51.61%) SCOM
2 16 (51.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Ericsson
2 1 (3.23%) Mavenir
2 1 (3.23%) Nokia