VB Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 108 132 155
Rank change year-on-year +24 +23 +20
Contract jobs citing VB 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.036% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.16% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £280
25th Percentile £393 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.76%
75th Percentile £450 - £400
90th Percentile £482 - £469
England median daily rate £390 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -33.33% +38.73%

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VB in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands - 3 £395 - 9
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PMO Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) UiPath