VBA Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring VBA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VBA over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 111 113
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing VBA 4 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.36% 0.10% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 0.48% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £514
25th Percentile - £275 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £300 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -48.94% +17.50%
75th Percentile - £325 £622
90th Percentile - - £631
England median daily rate £408 £400 £468
% change year-on-year +1.88% -14.44% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £40.91 - -
25th Percentile £47.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £54.93 - -
England median hourly rate £29.33 - £23.22
% change year-on-year - - +60.14%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 368 421 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.95% 21.92% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 175 360
10th Percentile £306 £325 £312
25th Percentile £406 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £635 £633 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 148 102
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £47.88
25th Percentile £54.44 £59.69 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.07%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the East of England

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for VBA in the East of England

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the East of England

VBA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBA in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VBA in the East of England

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 4 - - 18
VBA
England

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SpaceWire
2 1 (25.00%) RS-232
General
1 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Avionics
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Electrical Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Acquisition
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
1 3 (75.00%) TestOps
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter