VB Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 363 375
Rank change year-on-year +47 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing VB 23 36 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.74% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 46
10th Percentile £341 £391 £185
25th Percentile £386 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £605 £422
Median % change year-on-year -23.35% +43.53% +0.36%
75th Percentile £569 £608 £586
90th Percentile £610 - £625
UK median daily rate £393 £413 £600
% change year-on-year -4.85% -31.25% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.50 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - -11.31% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £36.50 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £36.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year - -11.31% +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,664 4,867 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.64% 23.45% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,419 3,280 4,978
10th Percentile £325 £319 £339
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 397 341
10th Percentile £22.43 £37.63 £24.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £61.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +2.17% +23.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% +20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +24 9 £575 -4.96% 22
North of England +30 8 £456 +153.47% 12
North West - 6 £411 - 6
Midlands +22 4 £395 - 16
West Midlands - 3 £395 - 10
Yorkshire - 2 £456 - 2
East Midlands +14 1 £385 - 4
Scotland +13 1 £550 - 8
South West - 1 - - 9
VB
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) Skype for Business
3 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.70%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (4.35%) Apache
4 1 (4.35%) IIS
4 1 (4.35%) nginx
4 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) LAN
2 7 (30.43%) DNS
3 6 (26.09%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (26.09%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (26.09%) Cisco ISE
3 6 (26.09%) Junos
4 5 (21.74%) DHCP
5 4 (17.39%) Skype
5 4 (17.39%) VLAN
5 4 (17.39%) VPN
5 4 (17.39%) WAN
5 4 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) QARun
1 2 (8.70%) WinRunner
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Publishing
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) PMO Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Wintel Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Wintel Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (4.35%) Ajax
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) Blazor
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) JMS
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) PMI
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
3 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.70%) Android
5 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (8.70%) Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Change Management
3 6 (26.09%) Load Balancing
3 6 (26.09%) Preventative Maintenance
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Service Management
5 4 (17.39%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (17.39%) Disk Encryption
5 4 (17.39%) ITSM
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Case Management
6 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
1 7 (30.43%) Python
1 7 (30.43%) VBScript
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) VBA
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) MCP
5 2 (8.70%) MCSA
5 2 (8.70%) MCSE
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
2 4 (17.39%) PMO
3 3 (13.04%) NCSC
4 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) BitLocker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) SCCM
2 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) FortiGate
3 5 (21.74%) Terraform
4 3 (13.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) SCOM
5 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Citrix
2 6 (26.09%) F5
3 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.04%) Juniper
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) McAfee
5 2 (8.70%) Symantec
5 2 (8.70%) UiPath
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) SAP