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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 291 518
Rank change year-on-year -11 +227 -85
Contract jobs citing VB 43 169 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.69% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.86% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 143 81
10th Percentile £398 - £350
25th Percentile £463 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £420
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +36.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £608 £863 £500
90th Percentile - - £638
UK median daily rate £438 £600 £440
% change year-on-year -27.08% +36.36% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.82% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £34.50
% change year-on-year -11.31% +17.65% -19.52%

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 5,012 9,105 16,912
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.10% 37.13% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 6,690 12,586
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 190
10th Percentile £33.13 £27.83 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.35
% change year-on-year +2.97% +20.56% +17.45%

VB
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 21 May 2024.

VB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VB
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 18 (41.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (16.28%) SAS
3 5 (11.63%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 23 (53.49%) Entra ID
3 18 (41.86%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (41.86%) Azure Storage
3 18 (41.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (16.28%) Power Platform
4 7 (16.28%) Veeva
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (51.16%) DNS
2 19 (44.19%) Firewall
3 18 (41.86%) DHCP
4 5 (11.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Power BI
2 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.65%) QlikView
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) KNIME
4 1 (2.33%) MS Access
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
1 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.33%) MSI
General
1 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (32.56%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Support Specialist
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Active Directory Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Programmer
4 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Clinical Data Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Data Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Qlik Developer
6 2 (4.65%) QlikView Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (44.19%) ARM Templates
2 9 (20.93%) .NET
3 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.98%) WinForms
4 3 (6.98%) WPF
5 2 (4.65%) Playwright
5 2 (4.65%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) SOAP
6 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 23 (53.49%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (41.86%) PKI
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Windows
2 24 (55.81%) Windows Server
3 19 (44.19%) Linux
4 18 (41.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (41.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.33%) Unix
5 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Agile
2 21 (48.84%) DevOps
3 19 (44.19%) Analytics
4 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
4 18 (41.86%) Identity Management
4 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (41.86%) ITIL
4 18 (41.86%) Log Analytics
4 18 (41.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 18 (41.86%) Privileged Identity Management
4 18 (41.86%) RBAC
4 18 (41.86%) Release Management
4 18 (41.86%) Service Management
5 9 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (20.93%) Data Management
6 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.28%) Validation
7 4 (9.30%) Data Collection
7 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) C#
2 24 (55.81%) PowerShell
3 22 (51.16%) VBScript
4 18 (41.86%) Bicep
5 14 (32.56%) SQL
6 8 (18.60%) R
7 6 (13.95%) PL/SQL
7 6 (13.95%) Python
8 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
9 3 (6.98%) VBA
10 2 (4.65%) Java
10 2 (4.65%) VB6
11 1 (2.33%) C
11 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (46.51%) Degree
2 20 (46.51%) SC Cleared
3 18 (41.86%) DV Cleared
3 18 (41.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.33%) CISA
4 1 (2.33%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) CDISC
2 4 (9.30%) QA
3 3 (6.98%) Good Clinical Practice
3 3 (6.98%) GxP
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (53.49%) Active Directory
2 22 (51.16%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (41.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Microsoft Intune
1 19 (44.19%) SCCM
2 18 (41.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (41.86%) SCOM
2 18 (41.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Infragistics
4 1 (2.33%) Citrix
4 1 (2.33%) Micro Focus
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Talend