VB Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 351 364 422
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 -78
Contract jobs citing VB 50 66 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.05% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 56
10th Percentile £413 £209 £315
25th Percentile £453 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £586 £496
90th Percentile - £685 £525
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £440
% change year-on-year -29.17% +36.36% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £28.56 -
25th Percentile £35.50 £32.02 £32.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +17.65% -19.52%
75th Percentile £49.50 £43.39 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £32.00
% change year-on-year -11.31% +26.84% -28.89%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VB in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the UK excluding London 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
South East +41 37 £605 +96.75% 20
Scotland +43 5 £475 +6.50%
East of England +2 3 - - 4
North of England -12 3 £290 -35.56% 17
Midlands +15 2 £580 +22.11% 12
North West -9 2 £400 -11.11% 13
West Midlands +15 1 £580 +22.11% 6
North East +9 1 £180 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
VB
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (42.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (42.00%) Azure Storage
2 21 (42.00%) Entra ID
2 21 (42.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.00%) Firewall
2 22 (44.00%) DNS
3 21 (42.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.00%) NAS
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) SAN
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.00%) MySQL
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
1 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.00%) MS Access
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.00%) AdminStudio
3 2 (4.00%) InstallShield
3 2 (4.00%) MSI
4 1 (2.00%) Appium
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 30 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.00%) French Language
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Automotive
4 2 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (28.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (28.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (28.00%) Support Specialist
3 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Applications Packager
6 2 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.00%) ARM Templates
2 6 (12.00%) .NET
3 4 (8.00%) Playwright
3 4 (8.00%) REST
3 4 (8.00%) SOAP
3 4 (8.00%) WinForms
3 4 (8.00%) WPF
4 2 (4.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) PKI
1 21 (42.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (10.00%) Device Driver
3 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 36 (72.00%) Windows
2 22 (44.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 21 (42.00%) Linux
3 21 (42.00%) Windows Server
3 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) Agile
2 25 (50.00%) DevOps
3 21 (42.00%) Analytics
3 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.00%) Identity Management
3 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (42.00%) ITIL
3 21 (42.00%) Log Analytics
3 21 (42.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 21 (42.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 21 (42.00%) RBAC
3 21 (42.00%) Release Management
3 21 (42.00%) Service Management
4 13 (26.00%) SDLC
5 6 (12.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (12.00%) Test Scripting
5 6 (12.00%) Test Strategy
6 5 (10.00%) Software Distribution
7 4 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 31 (62.00%) PowerShell
2 30 (60.00%) VBScript
3 27 (54.00%) C#
4 21 (42.00%) Bicep
5 16 (32.00%) SQL
6 5 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 4 (8.00%) C
7 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (8.00%) T-SQL
7 4 (8.00%) VB6
8 3 (6.00%) Java
9 2 (4.00%) Python
10 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (50.00%) Degree
2 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
3 23 (46.00%) SC Cleared
4 21 (42.00%) DV Cleared
4 21 (42.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) MCSE
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (42.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (42.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.00%) BitLocker
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) SCCM
2 23 (46.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (44.00%) WSUS
4 21 (42.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (42.00%) Kubernetes
4 21 (42.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (64.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) Infragistics
4 2 (4.00%) Micro Focus
4 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Talend
5 1 (2.00%) VMware