VBA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.27% - 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile £420 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £660 - £388
90th Percentile £732 - -
North West median daily rate £410 £475 £375
% change year-on-year -13.68% +26.67% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 151 188 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 20.41% 35.88% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 156 111
10th Percentile £324 £317 £313
25th Percentile £375 £358 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £402 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.05% -15.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £576
90th Percentile £632 £584 £614
North West median daily rate £476 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 - £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £71.00 £79.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year -10.13% +63.12% +4.87%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

VBA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VBA

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in Cheshire over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in Cheshire

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VBA

VBA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. 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
Knutsford - 1 £300 -
Chester - 1 £780 -
VBA
North West

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) SAS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Insight Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Pricing Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Storyboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata