VBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 388 392
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 -54
Contract jobs citing VBA 17 68 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.29% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.35% 1.00% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 44 72
10th Percentile £196 £325 £281
25th Percentile £284 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £441 £500 £491
90th Percentile £476 £544 £586
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 18
10th Percentile - £23.51 £12.62
25th Percentile - £23.95 £14.25
Median hourly rate - £25.24 £17.87
Median % change year-on-year - +41.25% -10.68%
75th Percentile - £27.09 £21.75
90th Percentile - £27.86 £37.59
UK median hourly rate £25.79 £25.24 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% +29.41% -2.50%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East 0 8 £340 -22.29% 15
North of England +26 5 £413 - 8
Yorkshire +30 4 £450 -4.26% 2
Scotland +37 2 £425 +2.41% 5
Midlands +27 2 £263 -30.00% 16
West Midlands +23 1 £325 - 13
North West +18 1 £375 -6.25% 5
East Midlands +18 1 £200 -46.67% 3
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (5.88%) MS Access
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
4 1 (5.88%) PowerPivot
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
1 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
1 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Retail
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.88%) Electronics
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Pricing Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Junior
4 2 (11.76%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) B2B
2 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
2 4 (23.53%) Workflow
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) ATDD
4 2 (11.76%) BDD
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (11.76%) Kanban
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) MATLAB
3 4 (23.53%) VB.NET
4 2 (11.76%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) VBScript
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) ISEB
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) SAP