Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
North West > Lancashire
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 13 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 32 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | +4 |
| Contract jobs citing VB | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire | - | - | 2.01% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | - | - | 8.47% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £400 |
| North West median daily rate | £411 | - | £510 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | +31.61% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £37.80 |
| Median hourly rate | - | - | £40.59 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £43.39 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| North West median hourly rate | - | - | £40.59 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | +17.65% |
All Programming Languages
Lancashire
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 Lancashire.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills | 28 | 31 | 59 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire | 15.38% | 15.58% | 23.69% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 18 | 7 | 23 |
| 10th Percentile | £448 | £438 | £238 |
| 25th Percentile | £513 | £481 | £441 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £544 | £600 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -9.33% | +9.09% | +10.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £608 | £638 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £615 | £650 | £669 |
| North West median daily rate | £465 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.11% | -5.00% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3 | 13 | 9 |
| 10th Percentile | £46.25 | £37.63 | £33.11 |
| 25th Percentile | £53.38 | £45.88 | £37.80 |
| Median hourly rate | £65.50 | £46.18 | £48.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +41.84% | -4.78% | +14.12% |
| 75th Percentile | £65.75 | £48.00 | £56.40 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £48.43 | £60.85 |
| North West median hourly rate | £74.50 | £48.43 | £40.59 |
| % change year-on-year | +53.83% | +19.32% | -19.14% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire
Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in Lancashire.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in Lancashire.