VBA Contract Job Trends in Chester

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VBA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.78% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £780 £525 -
% change year-on-year +48.57% - -

All Programming Languages
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22 21 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 17.05% 24.71% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 1
10th Percentile £423 £405 -
25th Percentile £450 £532 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £576 £300
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +92.00% -29.41%
75th Percentile £763 £659 £325
90th Percentile £780 £739 -
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £425 £510
% change year-on-year -5.41% -16.67% +14.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £40.00
25th Percentile - - £40.31
Median hourly rate £86.00 £86.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +102.35% -
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £76.25 £85.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.82% +101.18% +41.67%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

VBA job vacancy trend in Chester

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing VBA

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Insight Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Pricing Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata