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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing VB 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.049% - 0.086%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Central London median daily rate - - £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 621 701 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.37% 39.25% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 454 541
10th Percentile £350 £413 £404
25th Percentile £425 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.71%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £695
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £29.70 - £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £76.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -41.37% +59.90% -16.52%

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

VB
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ProC
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) OutSystems
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce