VB Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 110 - 163
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing VB 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.060% - 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £248
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.26%
75th Percentile - - £397
90th Percentile - - £481
England median daily rate £390 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -33.33% +38.73%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the South West

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VB in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 5
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware