VBA Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 70 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 +16
Contract jobs citing VBA 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.98% 1.01% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £400 - £410
25th Percentile £413 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £417
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +2.04% -0.54%
75th Percentile £489 £438 £424
90th Percentile £501 - £426
Scotland median daily rate £470 £425 £415
% change year-on-year +10.47% +2.41% -0.90%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in Edinburgh

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for VBA in Edinburgh

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in Edinburgh

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) IaaS
1 3 (37.50%) PaaS
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
1 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) MS Access
2 1 (12.50%) QlikView
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
1 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
1 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Budget Management
1 4 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 4 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 4 (50.00%) Business Forecasting
2 3 (37.50%) ATDD
2 3 (37.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
2 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) V-Model
2 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) VBScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CIMA
2 3 (37.50%) ISEB
2 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 3 (37.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Alteryx