VB Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 158 184 194
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing VB 8 1 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.021% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.082% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 13
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £427 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £180 £500
Median % change year-on-year +153.47% -64.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £470 - £586
90th Percentile £471 - £587
England median daily rate £390 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -33.33% +38.73%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - £36.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year - -11.31% +17.65%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VB in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the North of England 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
North West - 6 £411 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £456 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (50.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) Skype
2 4 (50.00%) VLAN
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Publishing
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) PMO Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Deployment Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (12.50%) PMO Lead
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Disk Encryption
1 4 (50.00%) ITSM
1 4 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Case
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Matrix Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (12.50%) MCSA
3 1 (12.50%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) BitLocker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) VMware