VB Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing VB 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.15% - 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
75th Percentile - - £541
90th Percentile - - £569
Yorkshire median daily rate £365 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 217 283 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.20% 29.98% 27.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 208 282
10th Percentile £350 £300 £400
25th Percentile £413 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £575 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £497 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -0.70% -3.15% +3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £31.53 £33.00 -
25th Percentile £31.62 £35.63 -
Median hourly rate £33.11 £42.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +99.44% -9.65%
75th Percentile £66.51 £50.63 £38.66
90th Percentile £85.74 £54.00 £49.06
Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £46.25 £45.96
% change year-on-year -28.41% +0.63% +76.78%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in West Yorkshire

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for VB in West Yorkshire

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in West Yorkshire

VB
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Leeds - 1 - -
VB
Yorkshire

VB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform