VB Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 144 179
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 -28
Contract jobs citing VB 9 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 0.62% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 17
10th Percentile £140 - £456
25th Percentile £219 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.23% -4.35% +64.29%
75th Percentile £500 - £588
90th Percentile £583 - £624
Central London median daily rate £356 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -35.23% -4.35% +64.29%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 746 966 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.14% 34.79% 47.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 672 1,331
10th Percentile £406 £400 £425
25th Percentile £484 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.27% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 19
10th Percentile £51.80 £15.65 £19.95
25th Percentile £74.38 £20.75 £31.75
Median hourly rate £112.00 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +273.33% -42.86% +19.32%
75th Percentile - £39.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - £45.15 £68.35
Central London median hourly rate £41.50 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +38.33% -42.86% +43.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VB in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VB in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VB in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VB in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VB in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VB in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) KNIME
2 1 (11.11%) MS Access
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
General
1 7 (77.78%) Games
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 7 (77.78%) VB Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (11.11%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Augmented Reality
1 7 (77.78%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
2 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
2 1 (11.11%) TDD
2 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) R
2 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISA
1 1 (11.11%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft