VB Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 84 73 91
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing VB 8 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.73% 1.40% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.73% 5.93% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 7
10th Percentile - £572 £455
25th Percentile £603 £605 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £610 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +19.61% -
75th Percentile £608 £615 £530
90th Percentile - - £533
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £610 £510
% change year-on-year -0.82% +19.61% -

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 293 253 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 26.76% 23.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 203 218
10th Percentile £400 £365 £394
25th Percentile £491 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £600
90th Percentile £671 £698 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £61.66 - -
25th Percentile £66.42 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £71.31 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £78.03 - £57.50
90th Percentile £83.71 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.49 £49.73 £61.50
% change year-on-year +17.62% -19.14% -3.15%

VB
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in Reading

VB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for VB in Reading

VB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 8 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory Support
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) PKI
1 8 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
1 8 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 8 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 8 (100.00%) RBAC
1 8 (100.00%) Release Management
1 8 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bicep
1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 8 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (100.00%) SCCM
1 8 (100.00%) SCOM
1 8 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft