VBA Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing VBA 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.16% - 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% - 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £191
25th Percentile - - £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £446
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.27%
75th Percentile - - £688
90th Percentile - - £702
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -11.90% +1.94% -2.74%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

VBA falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 156 195 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.41% 27.27% 23.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 119 140
10th Percentile £305 £313 £289
25th Percentile £413 £378 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £584 £650
90th Percentile £633 £702 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.45
25th Percentile - - £27.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -
75th Percentile - - £45.25
90th Percentile - - £50.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -58.89%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VBA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VBA

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL