VB Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 124 165
Rank change year-on-year -9 +41 -39
Contract jobs citing VB 2 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.072% 0.86% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 3.05% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 13
10th Percentile - £401 £315
25th Percentile - £441 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile - £586 £438
90th Percentile - - £468
England median daily rate £400 £625 £446
% change year-on-year -36.00% +40.29% +4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £37.80 £32.25
Median hourly rate - £40.59 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -
75th Percentile - £43.39 £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £32.00
% change year-on-year -11.31% +26.84% -28.89%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 672 852 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.07% 28.29% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 634 1,067
10th Percentile £326 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £663 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 38
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for VB in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Manchester +3 2 £400 -11.11% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) AdminStudio
1 2 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 2 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Packager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft