VB Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 165 196
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 +52
Contract jobs citing VB 30 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.74% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.07% 1.07% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 17
10th Percentile - £322 £559
25th Percentile £325 £413 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% -0.82% +32.61%
75th Percentile £541 £608 £615
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £408 £390 £525
% change year-on-year +4.49% -25.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +32.15%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 978 1,117 1,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.09% 27.14% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 707 862
10th Percentile £260 £325 £325
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £615
90th Percentile £631 £663 £675
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 52 58
10th Percentile £43.13 £27.00 £40.03
25th Percentile £50.00 £53.25 £49.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.03 £69.69
90th Percentile £58.88 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +4.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VB job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VB

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the South East over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VB

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Surrey +17 18 - -
Hampshire +4 7 £530 +657.14%
Thames Valley -7 5 £325 -46.28%
Buckinghamshire - 4 £325 -
Berkshire -4 1 £450 -25.62%
VB
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (10.00%) Junos
1 3 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Integration Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Integration Test Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Test Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 19 (63.33%) Workflow
3 18 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 18 (60.00%) CAFM
3 18 (60.00%) Data Integration
3 18 (60.00%) Scrum
3 18 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 18 (60.00%) TDD
3 18 (60.00%) Test Strategy
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Defect Management
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Integration Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (13.33%) SDLC
5 4 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Test Management
5 4 (13.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) Avamar
3 1 (3.33%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco
2 3 (10.00%) Citrix
2 3 (10.00%) F5
2 3 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (3.33%) Dell
3 1 (3.33%) HP
3 1 (3.33%) Veeam
3 1 (3.33%) VMware