VB Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 110 125 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 +35 -29
Contract jobs citing VB 1 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.049% 0.18% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.74% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £241 £383
25th Percentile £565 £324 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% +3.37% +98.70%
75th Percentile £595 £513 £550
90th Percentile - £528 -
England median daily rate £400 £625 £446
% change year-on-year -36.00% +40.29% +4.82%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 458 538 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.43% 24.31% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 361 659
10th Percentile £260 £313 £325
25th Percentile £348 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +17.28%
75th Percentile £550 £602 £563
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile £36.36 £21.73 £24.30
25th Percentile £47.75 £23.81 £36.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% -49.45% +141.47%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £59.71
90th Percentile £72.50 £98.25 £59.84
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VB in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire -3 1 £580 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Talend