VBA Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for VBA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBA over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 203 242
Rank change year-on-year +5 +39 -50
Contract jobs citing VBA 8 18 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 1.13% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 13
10th Percentile £216 £195 £231
25th Percentile £263 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.29% +9.38% -6.43%
75th Percentile £439 £497 £488
90th Percentile £498 £500 £618
England median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.13 £19.50
Median hourly rate - £27.25 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year - +34.57% +1.25%
75th Percentile - £28.38 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.79 £25.24 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% +29.41% -2.50%

All Programming Languages
South East

VBA is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,206 1,597 2,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.69% 27.49% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 1,137 1,361
10th Percentile £325 £329 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £679 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 91 89
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +26.03% +5.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £75.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the South East

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VBA in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in the South East

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Thames Valley +2 6 £433 +8.13% 3
Buckinghamshire +27 4 - - 2
Surrey +11 2 £190 -62.00% 4
Berkshire -18 1 £525 +27.27%
Oxfordshire - 1 £340 - 1
VBA
England

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Pricing Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Database Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Excel Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Excel Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) B2B
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle