VB Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 289 274 510
Rank change year-on-year -15 +236 -63
Contract jobs citing VB 52 188 113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.79% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 2.16% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 160 94
10th Percentile £324 - £380
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £579 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +36.12% +11.48%
75th Percentile £608 £863 £500
90th Percentile - - £646
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £440
% change year-on-year -29.17% +36.36% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.82% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £40.59 £32.00
% change year-on-year -11.31% +26.84% -28.89%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VB falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

VB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VB trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB.

VB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VB over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

VB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VB.

VB hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (42.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (13.46%) SAS
3 5 (9.62%) IIS
4 1 (1.92%) JBoss
4 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Endur
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 28 (53.85%) Azure
2 26 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 21 (40.38%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (40.38%) Azure Storage
3 21 (40.38%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
4 7 (13.46%) Veeva
5 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (48.08%) DNS
2 22 (42.31%) Firewall
3 21 (40.38%) DHCP
4 5 (9.62%) Network Security
5 1 (1.92%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Power BI
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.85%) QlikView
4 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.92%) KNIME
5 1 (1.92%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) MSI
1 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
General
1 23 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (26.92%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (26.92%) Support Specialist
3 8 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Programmer
7 3 (5.77%) Applications Tester
7 3 (5.77%) Clinical Data Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Tester
8 2 (3.85%) Applications Packager
8 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Server Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (42.31%) ARM Templates
2 12 (23.08%) .NET
3 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET
4 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.77%) WinForms
5 3 (5.77%) WPF
6 2 (3.85%) Playwright
6 2 (3.85%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) SOAP
7 1 (1.92%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (55.77%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (40.38%) PKI
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 32 (61.54%) Windows
2 27 (51.92%) Windows Server
3 23 (44.23%) Linux
4 21 (40.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (40.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Agile
2 24 (46.15%) DevOps
3 22 (42.31%) Analytics
4 21 (40.38%) CI/CD
4 21 (40.38%) Identity Management
4 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (40.38%) ITIL
4 21 (40.38%) Log Analytics
4 21 (40.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 21 (40.38%) Privileged Identity Management
4 21 (40.38%) RBAC
4 21 (40.38%) Release Management
4 21 (40.38%) Service Management
5 9 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (17.31%) Data Management
6 8 (15.38%) SDLC
7 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.46%) Validation
8 4 (7.69%) OO
8 4 (7.69%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) C#
2 28 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 25 (48.08%) VBScript
4 21 (40.38%) Bicep
5 18 (34.62%) SQL
6 8 (15.38%) R
7 7 (13.46%) Python
8 6 (11.54%) PL/SQL
8 6 (11.54%) VBA
9 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
10 3 (5.77%) Java
11 2 (3.85%) VB6
12 1 (1.92%) Bash
12 1 (1.92%) C
12 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (44.23%) Degree
2 23 (44.23%) SC Cleared
3 21 (40.38%) DV Cleared
3 21 (40.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.92%) CISA
4 1 (1.92%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) CDISC
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (5.77%) Good Clinical Practice
3 3 (5.77%) GxP
4 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 25 (48.08%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (40.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 23 (44.23%) SCCM
2 21 (40.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (40.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (40.38%) SCOM
2 21 (40.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.85%) Infragistics
4 1 (1.92%) Citrix
4 1 (1.92%) Micro Focus
4 1 (1.92%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) Sybase
4 1 (1.92%) Talend
4 1 (1.92%) TIBCO