VB Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 145 167
Rank change year-on-year +23 +22 -53
Contract jobs citing VB 18 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.36% 0.85% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 3
10th Percentile £524 - £220
25th Percentile £603 £185 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £190 £300
Median % change year-on-year +218.42% -36.67% -29.82%
75th Percentile £608 £195 £372
90th Percentile - £341 £408
South East median daily rate £605 £308 £225
% change year-on-year +96.75% +36.67% -47.06%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 703 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.94% 23.94% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 522 581
10th Percentile £358 £326 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £611 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 6
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £36.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £63.06
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -21.82% +81.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £81.98
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £85.00
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.16%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +10 17 £605 +96.75% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £340 - 1
VB
South East

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
1 16 (88.89%) Azure Monitor
1 16 (88.89%) Azure Storage
1 16 (88.89%) Entra ID
2 15 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DHCP
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (83.33%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (77.78%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (77.78%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (88.89%) PKI
1 16 (88.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Linux
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Agile
1 16 (88.89%) Analytics
1 16 (88.89%) Identity Management
1 16 (88.89%) ITIL
1 16 (88.89%) Log Analytics
1 16 (88.89%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 16 (88.89%) Privileged Identity Management
1 16 (88.89%) RBAC
1 16 (88.89%) Release Management
1 16 (88.89%) Service Management
2 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 15 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
3 1 (5.56%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (5.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) C#
1 16 (88.89%) PowerShell
1 16 (88.89%) VBScript
2 15 (83.33%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) DV Cleared
1 16 (88.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 16 (88.89%) Virtual Desktop
1 16 (88.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 16 (88.89%) Kubernetes
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (88.89%) SCCM
1 16 (88.89%) SCOM
1 16 (88.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.56%) Mavenir
2 1 (5.56%) Nokia