VBA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 81 115
Rank change year-on-year -17 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing VBA 11 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.59% 0.56% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.86% 2.24% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £399 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% - -
75th Percentile £388 £400 -
90th Percentile - £400 -
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £51.63 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £52.19 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile - £54.88 -
England median hourly rate £33.96 £29.07 £25.79
% change year-on-year +16.81% +12.72% -5.36%

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 384 268 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.52% 25.09% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 135 213
10th Percentile £325 £314 £300
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -1.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £547 £560
90th Percentile £688 £675 £649
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 55 145
10th Percentile £54.71 £41.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VBA job vacancy trend in the East of England

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 7 March 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
Essex - 6 £375 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 5
Norfolk - 2 - - 1
Hertfordshire -32 1 - - 1
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Sage X3
2 2 (18.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) RS-232
1 1 (9.09%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Power Query
2 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 6 (54.55%) ZAP BI
3 2 (18.18%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Manufacturing
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Report Developer
1 6 (54.55%) SQL BI Developer
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Sage Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Crystal Reports Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) ERP Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Excel Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Tableau Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Validation
2 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (54.55%) Customer Engagement
2 6 (54.55%) Data Analysis
2 6 (54.55%) Data Lineage
2 6 (54.55%) Data Validation
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Kalman Filter
2 6 (54.55%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (54.55%) Technology Transformation
2 6 (54.55%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) B2B
3 2 (18.18%) Business Development
3 2 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Tcl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Sage
3 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce