VB Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 115 128 150
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +11
Contract jobs citing VB 1 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.045% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.15% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile - - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.33%
75th Percentile - - £581
90th Percentile - - £615
UK median daily rate £395 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -1.25% -33.33% +42.86%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in Scotland

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VB in Scotland

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in Scotland

VB
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +5 1 £550 - 3
VB
UK

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware