VBA Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring VBA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 77 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +24
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.28% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 0.72% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £350 -
25th Percentile - £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -26.26% -
75th Percentile - £351 £488
90th Percentile - £351 -
South West median daily rate £207 £350 £475
% change year-on-year -41.04% -26.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 190 279 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.21% 30.49% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 133 229
10th Percentile £335 £353 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £613
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £475 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 76 35
10th Percentile - £65.00 £60.91
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £69.69 £70.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £85.00 £70.18
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in Bristol

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VBA

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (50.00%) NASTRAN
1 1 (50.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CAD
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Finite Element Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) PLM
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SAPscript
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos
1 1 (50.00%) SAP