VB Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing VB 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.13% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - -
75th Percentile £403 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £408 £390 £570
% change year-on-year +4.49% -31.58% +23.24%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 216 211 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.07% 26.38% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 148 169
10th Percentile £270 £310 £313
25th Percentile £358 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -5.82% -0.53%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £538
90th Percentile £556 £588 £650
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £14.31 - £51.25
25th Percentile £15.01 £21.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +57.04%
75th Percentile £18.09 £23.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £18.93 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VB

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VB

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Leicestershire - 1 £385 - 1
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft