VB Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 164 182
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 +53
Contract jobs citing VB 7 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 0.59% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £265 - £400
25th Percentile - - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% -11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £483 - £456
90th Percentile £486 - £519
England median daily rate £408 £390 £550
% change year-on-year +4.49% -29.09% +10.00%

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 1,247 1,014 1,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.66% 24.75% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 658 956
10th Percentile £315 £334 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £638 £632 £675
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 54
10th Percentile £31.20 £35.20 £32.26
25th Percentile £41.94 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £84.50 £64.69 £51.19
90th Percentile £93.20 £80.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

VB job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VB

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VB

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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 18 October 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
Yorkshire - 7 £268 - 1
VB
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Fabric
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) PMO Manager
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Dashboard Development
1 6 (85.71%) Data Analysis
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Metrics
1 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft