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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VB 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.47% - 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £480 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £580
75th Percentile £510 - £595
90th Percentile £522 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £473 £395 £580
% change year-on-year +19.62% -31.90% +54.67%

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 225 42 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 35.16% 31.82% 53.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 29 52
10th Percentile £385 £422 £309
25th Percentile £418 £455 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -13.55% -0.93%
75th Percentile £508 £524 £538
90th Percentile £556 £538 -
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.05 - -
25th Percentile £53.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.25 - -
90th Percentile £59.15 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £61.32 £28.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +117.59% -50.99% +96.13%

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 15 May 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 - 3 £490 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Ingres
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveX
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
1 2 (66.67%) COM
1 2 (66.67%) ODBC
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) VB6
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Actian
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle