VB Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 127 145
Rank change year-on-year +29 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing VB 4 18 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.67% 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 3.38% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £524 -
25th Percentile £325 £603 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £190
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +218.42% -36.67%
75th Percentile £593 £608 £195
90th Percentile £602 - £341
South East median daily rate £575 £605 £308
% change year-on-year -4.96% +96.75% +36.67%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the Thames Valley

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +16 2 £590 -2.48% 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £325 - 6
VB
South East

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Junos
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) QARun
1 2 (50.00%) WinRunner
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) SAP