VB Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 348 244 508
Rank change year-on-year -104 +264 -97
Contract jobs citing VB 52 264 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 1.05% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 2.62% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 246 82
10th Percentile £300 - £360
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £625 £440
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% +42.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £400 £807 £575
90th Percentile £448 £863 £650
England median daily rate £400 £625 £446
% change year-on-year -36.00% +40.29% +4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £28.25
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £30.75
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
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,656 10,091 16,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.65% 40.12% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,062 7,612 12,393
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 76 104
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.50 £28.55
25th Percentile £38.83 £43.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £61.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +28.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.28 £75.71
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in London

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VB in London

VB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for VB in London

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +43 9 £550 -7.41% 2
East London -4 4 £300 -25.00% 1
West London +20 1 - -
VB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (36.54%) IIS
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (65.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
1 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Internet
2 5 (9.62%) Network Security
3 4 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (57.69%) Oracle Database
2 22 (42.31%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.85%) KNIME
5 2 (3.85%) MS Access
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.92%) Power BI
6 1 (1.92%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) MSI
General
1 26 (50.00%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Games
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) Developer
2 27 (51.92%) C# Developer
3 14 (26.92%) .NET Developer
3 14 (26.92%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (25.00%) C# WCF Developer
4 13 (25.00%) C# WPF Developer
4 13 (25.00%) WCF Developer
4 13 (25.00%) WPF Developer
5 6 (11.54%) VB Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Applications Support
7 3 (5.77%) Applications Tester
7 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Tester
8 2 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Applications Packager
8 2 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Remote Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Server Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (71.15%) .NET
2 30 (57.69%) .NET Framework
3 14 (26.92%) WinForms
3 14 (26.92%) WPF
4 13 (25.00%) WCF
5 7 (13.46%) ASP.NET
6 6 (11.54%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (3.85%) ActiveX
8 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.92%) AWT
8 1 (1.92%) Java RMI
8 1 (1.92%) JSON
8 1 (1.92%) MDX
8 1 (1.92%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (11.54%) Augmented Reality
2 6 (11.54%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (61.54%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Data Analysis
2 19 (36.54%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (23.08%) OO
3 12 (23.08%) OOP
4 10 (19.23%) DevOps
5 9 (17.31%) Web Application Development
6 4 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (5.77%) Analytics
7 3 (5.77%) Migration
7 3 (5.77%) SDLC
8 2 (3.85%) Agile
8 2 (3.85%) Application Packaging
8 2 (3.85%) Data Modelling
8 2 (3.85%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (3.85%) ITIL
8 2 (3.85%) Mathematics
8 2 (3.85%) Service Management
8 2 (3.85%) Workflow
9 1 (1.92%) Computer Science
9 1 (1.92%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 37 (71.15%) SQL
2 34 (65.38%) VBA
3 30 (57.69%) C#
4 27 (51.92%) PL/SQL
5 19 (36.54%) T-SQL
6 14 (26.92%) VB.NET
7 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
8 4 (7.69%) Python
9 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.85%) Java
10 2 (3.85%) R
11 1 (1.92%) VBScript
11 1 (1.92%) VC++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) CISA
1 2 (3.85%) CRISC
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (36.54%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (57.69%) Oracle
2 19 (36.54%) Citrix
3 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) IBM