VBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 318 321 467
Rank change year-on-year +3 +146 -116
Contract jobs citing VBA 29 148 153
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.59% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 1.58% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 119 120
10th Percentile £313 £375 £297
25th Percentile £340 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £427
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.21% +0.35%
75th Percentile £825 £560 £505
90th Percentile £875 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.13
25th Percentile - - £19.50
Median hourly rate - £23.22 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year - +14.67% -23.06%
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £21.50
UK median hourly rate £25.79 £25.24 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% +29.41% -2.50%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

VBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
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 VBA.

VBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VBA over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

VBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
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 VBA.

VBA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
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 1 (3.45%) IIS
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (20.69%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.90%) MS Access
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) Power Query
4 1 (3.45%) PowerPivot
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Visual Studio
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) Subversion
3 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Banking
2 7 (24.14%) Front Office
3 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Local Government
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Qualitative Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Quantitative Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office RAD Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) RAD Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) SSIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.90%) WinForms
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Fixed Income
1 6 (20.69%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (13.79%) Equities
2 4 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (10.34%) NHS
4 2 (6.90%) Derivative
4 2 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.79%) Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Economics
5 4 (13.79%) Mathematical Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Numerical Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) Physics
5 4 (13.79%) Quantitative Finance
5 4 (13.79%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) C#
2 16 (55.17%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) C++
3 11 (37.93%) Python
4 9 (31.03%) VB.NET
5 7 (24.14%) Java
6 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
7 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
7 4 (13.79%) Perl
7 4 (13.79%) VB
8 3 (10.34%) MATLAB
8 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
9 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) CFA
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ISEB
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) MBA
4 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) PMO
1 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix
3 1 (3.45%) Google