Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
North West > Merseyside
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 30 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 43 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | +2 |
| Contract jobs citing VB | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside | - | - | 0.65% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | - | - | 2.78% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | - | -33.33% |
| North West median daily rate | £411 | £400 | £450 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.63% | -11.11% | +16.13% |
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
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 Merseyside.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills | 33 | 45 | 72 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside | 20.89% | 21.23% | 23.45% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 25 | 25 | 60 |
| 10th Percentile | £424 | £285 | £319 |
| 25th Percentile | £450 | £350 | £389 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £450 | £487 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.11% | -7.60% | -0.61% |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £494 | £611 |
| 90th Percentile | £735 | £550 | £677 |
| North West median daily rate | £454 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | -4.42% | -5.00% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £27.10 |
| Median hourly rate | - | - | £27.20 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £27.30 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| North West median hourly rate | £80.75 | £48.43 | £46.18 |
| % change year-on-year | +66.74% | +4.87% | -10.07% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside
Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in Merseyside.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in Merseyside.