VB Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring VB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 107 113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing VB 2 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.86% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 4.56% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 2
10th Percentile £567 - £208
25th Percentile £573 £603 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £605 £308
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +96.75% -25.45%
75th Percentile £603 £608 £377
90th Percentile £606 - £413
South East median daily rate £575 £605 £308
% change year-on-year -4.96% +96.75% +36.67%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

VB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

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
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 1 May 2025. 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 +15 1 £575 -4.96% 3
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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Junos
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP