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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 177 177
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +58
Contract jobs citing VB 11 4 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.084% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 0.33% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 16
10th Percentile £266 £224 £400
25th Percentile £268 £290 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £478 - £586
90th Percentile £485 - £587
England median daily rate £404 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +0.94% -36.00% +38.89%
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 - £48.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +18.26% +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 1,020 1,230 1,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.27% 25.68% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 838 1,107
10th Percentile £325 £317 £355
25th Percentile £384 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £606
90th Percentile £611 £625 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 52 31
10th Percentile £31.32 £37.50 £22.41
25th Percentile £36.82 £41.25 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% +2.86% +22.17%
75th Percentile £87.69 £69.44 £56.20
90th Percentile £95.36 £80.82 £63.75
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +17.37%

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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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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 July 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 £365 - 15
North West +9 4 £465 +16.25% 16
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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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DHCP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) Skype
1 4 (36.36%) VLAN
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
1 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) PMO Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
1 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Dashboard Development
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analysis
1 7 (63.64%) Performance Metrics
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Business Case
3 4 (36.36%) Disk Encryption
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
1 4 (36.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow