VBA Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.21% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 - -
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 - -
Median hourly rate £25.42 - -
75th Percentile £25.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £38.11 £25.79
% change year-on-year +11.52% +47.77% -33.23%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 179 135 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.61% 23.81% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 94 128
10th Percentile £362 £313 £300
25th Percentile £402 £355 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £550 £488 £550
90th Percentile £616 £529 £653
England median daily rate £513 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -4.38% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £12.63
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -41.93% +15.18%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.00
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £54.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

VBA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VBA

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
Leicestershire - 1 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 1 £268 -
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft