VB Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for VB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VB over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 298 510
Rank change year-on-year -57 +212 -151
Contract jobs citing VB 39 213 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.79% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 1.93% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 197 79
10th Percentile - - £331
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £628 £440
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% +42.61% -5.38%
75th Percentile - £810 £500
90th Percentile £440 £863 £575
England median daily rate £400 £600 £440
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.36% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.05
25th Percentile - £49.25 £37.75
Median hourly rate - £50.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.98% +13.33%
75th Percentile - £51.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - - £73.95
England median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £34.50
% change year-on-year -11.31% +17.65% -19.18%

All Programming Languages
London

VB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,361 11,026 16,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.91% 40.78% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,855 8,208 12,485
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 85 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.55 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +9.39%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £83.45 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VB in London

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in London.

Daily rate trend for VB in London

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in London

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in London.

Hourly rate trend for VB in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Central London +31 1 £550 -4.35% 2
West London +15 1 - -
East London -12 1 £375 -6.25% 1
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (35.90%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (74.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
1 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Internet
2 5 (12.82%) Network Security
3 4 (10.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (69.23%) Oracle Database
2 23 (58.97%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.56%) DB2
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) QlikView
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Postman
1 2 (5.13%) TestCafe
General
1 26 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 26 (66.67%) Developer
2 18 (46.15%) .NET Developer
2 18 (46.15%) C# .NET Developer
3 10 (25.64%) C# WPF Developer
3 10 (25.64%) WPF Developer
4 8 (20.51%) C# WCF Developer
4 8 (20.51%) WCF Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Remote Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Informatica Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms Data Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (92.31%) .NET
2 27 (69.23%) .NET Framework
3 11 (28.21%) WPF
4 9 (23.08%) WinForms
5 8 (20.51%) WCF
6 7 (17.95%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.13%) ActiveX
8 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 6 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.13%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) OS/390
4 1 (2.56%) Solaris
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Data Analysis
2 21 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (12.82%) OO
3 5 (12.82%) OOP
3 5 (12.82%) Web Application Development
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (5.13%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.13%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL
6 2 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.13%) Service Management
7 1 (2.56%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (2.56%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (2.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (2.56%) Decision-Making
7 1 (2.56%) Mathematics
7 1 (2.56%) Quantitative Analysis
7 1 (2.56%) Release Management
7 1 (2.56%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (82.05%) SQL
2 29 (74.36%) VBA
3 27 (69.23%) C#
4 26 (66.67%) PL/SQL
5 21 (53.85%) T-SQL
6 18 (46.15%) VB.NET
7 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.56%) Python
9 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
1 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (53.85%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 28 (71.79%) Oracle
2 21 (53.85%) Citrix
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica