VB Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VB over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 331 497
Rank change year-on-year +15 +166 -95
Contract jobs citing VB 38 151 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.58% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.55% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 126 89
10th Percentile £405 - £319
25th Percentile £450 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £514 £420
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% +22.32% +9.80%
75th Percentile £608 £863 £500
90th Percentile - - £608
UK median daily rate £400 £600 £421
% change year-on-year -33.33% +42.43% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.59 -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £34.50
% change year-on-year -11.31% +17.65% -19.18%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VB is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,128 9,755 16,919
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.24% 37.47% 38.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 7,148 12,552
10th Percentile £350 £394 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £631
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 218 192
10th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +28.06% +10.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £77.20 £66.93
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VB trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB.

VB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VB over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

VB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB.

VB hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (18.42%) SAS
3 5 (13.16%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) Azure
1 20 (52.63%) Entra ID
2 15 (39.47%) Azure Monitor
2 15 (39.47%) Azure Storage
3 14 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
4 7 (18.42%) Veeva
5 2 (5.26%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (50.00%) DNS
2 15 (39.47%) DHCP
2 15 (39.47%) Firewall
3 5 (13.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.26%) QlikView
4 1 (2.63%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Postman
1 2 (5.26%) TestCafe
2 1 (2.63%) Axure RP
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (36.84%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (36.84%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (36.84%) Support Specialist
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Programmer
4 3 (7.89%) Clinical Data Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Qlik Developer
5 2 (5.26%) QlikView Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Server Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Applications Tester
6 1 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Administrator
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Development Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Development Support Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (2.63%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) ARM Templates
2 9 (23.68%) .NET
3 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.63%) WinForms
5 1 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (39.47%) PKI
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (57.89%) Windows
2 20 (52.63%) Windows Server
3 15 (39.47%) Linux
4 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) Analytics
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
2 15 (39.47%) Identity Management
2 15 (39.47%) ITIL
2 15 (39.47%) Log Analytics
2 15 (39.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 15 (39.47%) Privileged Identity Management
2 15 (39.47%) RBAC
2 15 (39.47%) Release Management
2 15 (39.47%) Service Management
3 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (18.42%) Data Management
5 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.42%) Validation
6 4 (10.53%) Data Collection
7 3 (7.89%) Data Entry
7 3 (7.89%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) C#
2 20 (52.63%) PowerShell
3 18 (47.37%) VBScript
4 14 (36.84%) Bicep
5 11 (28.95%) SQL
6 7 (18.42%) R
7 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
8 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
9 4 (10.53%) Python
9 4 (10.53%) VBA
10 1 (2.63%) Java
10 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) Degree
2 15 (39.47%) DV Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) CDISC
2 3 (7.89%) Good Clinical Practice
2 3 (7.89%) GxP
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 20 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (39.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (39.47%) SCCM
1 15 (39.47%) SCOM
1 15 (39.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Citrix