VB Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 150 174 213
Rank change year-on-year +24 +39 +26
Contract jobs citing VB 9 31 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.56% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 2.57% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 8
10th Percentile £325 £413 -
25th Percentile £406 £481 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £308
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +96.75% +36.67%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £694
90th Percentile £613 - -
England median daily rate £390 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -33.33% +38.73%

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 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VB in the South East

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the South East

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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 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
Hampshire +24 5 £575 +4.55% 13
Thames Valley +29 4 £450 -25.62% 16
Berkshire +16 2 £590 -2.48% 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £325 - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
1 6 (66.67%) Junos
1 6 (66.67%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) QARun
1 2 (22.22%) WinRunner
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 6 (66.67%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (55.56%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Case Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Logistics
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
2 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
1 6 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
1 6 (66.67%) F5
2 3 (33.33%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) SAP