VB Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing VB 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.42% - 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £265 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile £483 - £510
90th Percentile £486 - £576
England median daily rate £408 £390 £550
% change year-on-year +4.49% -29.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 592 428 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.53% 29.72% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 303 343
10th Percentile £342 £355 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £49.25 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%
75th Percentile £49.75 £58.13 £26.78
90th Percentile - £63.75 £47.91
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

VB job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VB
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VB

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VB in Yorkshire

VB
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VB

VB
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 Yorkshire - 6 £268 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
VB
England

VB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Fabric
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) PMO Manager
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Dashboard Development
1 6 (85.71%) Data Analysis
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Metrics
1 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft