VB Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring VB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VB 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.25% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £464 £395 £590
% change year-on-year +17.41% -33.05% +47.50%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 181 39 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 45.02% 31.71% 45.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 28 24
10th Percentile £411 £435 £500
25th Percentile £450 £475 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -5.09% -0.74%
75th Percentile £537 £547 £538
90th Percentile £553 £567 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

VB job vacancy trend in Shropshire

VB
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing VB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing VB

VB
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing VB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing VB

VB
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £530 - 1
VB
West Midlands

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ingres
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle