VBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring VBA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VBA over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 307 479
Rank change year-on-year -7 +172 -120
Contract jobs citing VBA 29 141 150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.59% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 1.62% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 116 124
10th Percentile £300 £375 £304
25th Percentile £308 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £512 £575
90th Percentile £875 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.65% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.35
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - £23.22 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.08% -25.91%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £20.40
UK median hourly rate - £25.24 £14.50
% change year-on-year - +74.03% -25.64%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VBA 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 5,081 8,710 16,774
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.41% 36.50% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 6,426 12,522
10th Percentile £355 £383 £381
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £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 132 186 183
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.93 £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 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £51.38
% change year-on-year +2.97% +18.15% +14.80%

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 11 June 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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (20.69%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) 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 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database
2 4 (13.79%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) MS Access
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) KNIME
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) Power Query
4 1 (3.45%) PowerPivot
4 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
1 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Selenium
2 1 (3.45%) Subversion
2 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (58.62%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
4 6 (20.69%) Front Office
4 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.45%) Electronics
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Local Government
7 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Data Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Qualitative Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Quantitative Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Applications Tester
5 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Tester
6 2 (6.90%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Front Office RAD Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) RAD Developer
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) SSIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) .NET
2 8 (27.59%) .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 8 (27.59%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (17.24%) Fixed Income
3 4 (13.79%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (13.79%) Equities
3 4 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
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%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Analytics
3 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
4 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
4 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
5 4 (13.79%) Economics
5 4 (13.79%) Mathematical Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
5 4 (13.79%) Numerical Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) OO
5 4 (13.79%) OOP
5 4 (13.79%) Physics
5 4 (13.79%) Quantitative Finance
5 4 (13.79%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.34%) RAD
6 3 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) C#
2 16 (55.17%) SQL
3 12 (41.38%) Python
4 11 (37.93%) C++
5 7 (24.14%) Java
5 7 (24.14%) VB.NET
6 6 (20.69%) VB
7 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
7 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
8 4 (13.79%) Perl
9 3 (10.34%) MATLAB
10 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (3.45%) R
10 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
10 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%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) CRISC
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%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) PMO
1 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix
3 1 (3.45%) Google