VB Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 56 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing VB 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% - 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £571
25th Percentile - - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 - £586
Median % change year-on-year - - +86.03%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - £592
North West median daily rate £411 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +41.48%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in Cheshire

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for VB in Cheshire

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in Cheshire

VB
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 1 £356 -
Warrington - 1 - - 2
VB
North West

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (50.00%) PMO Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
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%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec
1 1 (50.00%) VMware