VB Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing VB 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% - 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% - 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £140
25th Percentile - - £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £356
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.23%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £583
Central London median daily rate - - £356
% change year-on-year - - -35.23%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 657 668 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.82% 37.15% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 459 505
10th Percentile £400 £391 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.75%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £708
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.84% +0.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% +232.00%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

VB job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VB

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Mandarin Language
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Project Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware