VCL Contracts in England

Visual Component Library (VCL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VCL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VCL 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 484 540 -
Rank change year-on-year +56 - -
Contract jobs citing VCL 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.005% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.018% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £530 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% - -
UK median daily rate £1,000 £530 -
% change year-on-year +88.68% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

VCL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

VCL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VCL in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCL in England.

Daily rate trend for VCL in England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Fastly
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Video On Demand Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) PlayReady
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) MPEG
1 1 (100.00%) Video on Demand
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DRM
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus