VB Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 355 376 409
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 -65
Contract jobs citing VB 41 71 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.04% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 73
10th Percentile £413 £185 £226
25th Percentile £422 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year +39.41% +1.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £586 £475
90th Percentile - £630 £500
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -29.17% +41.18% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £37.80 £32.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +17.65% -19.18%
75th Percentile £36.50 £43.39 £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £34.50
% change year-on-year -11.31% +17.65% -19.52%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VB in the UK excluding London

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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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 VB within the UK excluding London region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +47 31 £605 +96.75% 13
Scotland +34 5 £475 +6.50% 4
Midlands +26 2 £580 +54.67% 19
East of England +2 2 - - 9
West Midlands +12 1 £580 +54.67% 15
North of England +3 1 £180 -62.11% 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £180 - 1
VB
UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 16 (39.02%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (39.02%) Azure Storage
2 16 (39.02%) Entra ID
2 16 (39.02%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) DNS
2 16 (39.02%) DHCP
2 16 (39.02%) Firewall
3 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.44%) NAS
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.44%) SAN
3 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.76%) MySQL
1 4 (9.76%) Power BI
1 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.44%) Appium
3 1 (2.44%) Selenium
3 1 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.32%) French Language
4 2 (4.88%) Automotive
4 2 (4.88%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (34.15%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (34.15%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (34.15%) Support Specialist
3 6 (14.63%) Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Test Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) ARM Templates
2 5 (12.20%) .NET
3 4 (9.76%) Playwright
3 4 (9.76%) REST
3 4 (9.76%) SOAP
3 4 (9.76%) WinForms
3 4 (9.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) PKI
1 16 (39.02%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.20%) Device Driver
3 4 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 29 (70.73%) Windows
2 17 (41.46%) Windows Server 2019
3 16 (39.02%) Linux
3 16 (39.02%) Windows Server
3 16 (39.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (19.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Agile
2 20 (48.78%) DevOps
3 16 (39.02%) Analytics
3 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Identity Management
3 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (39.02%) ITIL
3 16 (39.02%) Log Analytics
3 16 (39.02%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 16 (39.02%) Privileged Identity Management
3 16 (39.02%) RBAC
3 16 (39.02%) Release Management
3 16 (39.02%) Service Management
4 12 (29.27%) SDLC
5 6 (14.63%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (14.63%) Test Strategy
6 5 (12.20%) Software Distribution
7 4 (9.76%) API Testing
7 4 (9.76%) ETL Development
7 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) PowerShell
2 23 (56.10%) VBScript
3 21 (51.22%) C#
4 16 (39.02%) Bicep
5 15 (36.59%) SQL
6 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
7 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
7 4 (9.76%) VB6
8 2 (4.88%) C
9 1 (2.44%) Java
9 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (43.90%) Degree
1 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 16 (39.02%) DV Cleared
3 16 (39.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) MCSE
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
2 16 (39.02%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (39.02%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.88%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) SCCM
2 17 (41.46%) WSUS
3 16 (39.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (39.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) Infragistics
4 1 (2.44%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.44%) Mavenir
4 1 (2.44%) Nokia
4 1 (2.44%) Talend
4 1 (2.44%) VMware