VB Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 108 118
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +34
Contract jobs citing VB 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.053% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 0.23% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £400 - £242
25th Percentile £411 £565 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £580 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +54.67% -18.30%
75th Percentile £476 £595 £416
90th Percentile £492 - £489
England median daily rate £393 £425 £625
% change year-on-year -7.65% -32.00% +42.05%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 358 434 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.85% 22.95% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 313 388
10th Percentile £235 £260 £355
25th Percentile £400 £335 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £681 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 8
10th Percentile £16.83 £40.10 £21.73
25th Percentile £19.12 £55.00 £23.81
Median hourly rate £28.18 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -50.99% +96.13% +67.53%
75th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £69.75 £98.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +22.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Birmingham - 2 £440 - 5
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PMO Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) UiPath