VBA Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VBA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 393 463
Rank change year-on-year -48 +70 -48
Contract jobs citing VBA 94 289 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 1.62% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 221 233
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £638
90th Percentile £736 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 19
10th Percentile - £23.51 £12.66
25th Percentile - £23.95 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.79 £25.24 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +29.41% -2.50%
75th Percentile - £27.09 £27.25
90th Percentile - £27.86 £37.31
UK median hourly rate £25.79 £25.24 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% +29.41% +6.78%

All Programming Languages
England

VBA is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VBA in England

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VBA in England

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in England

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VBA in England

VBA
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -35 79 £400 -25.93% 79
South East +16 8 £340 -22.29% 14
North of England +29 3 £450 +12.50% 13
Yorkshire +22 3 £450 -4.26% 5
Midlands +19 2 £263 -30.00% 19
West Midlands +27 1 £325 - 16
East Midlands +17 1 £200 -46.67% 3
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.57%) IIS
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 71 (75.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.57%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.06%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.13%) ION MarketView
2 2 (2.13%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (1.06%) Endur
3 1 (1.06%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.06%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.06%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.13%) AWS
2 2 (2.13%) Azure
2 2 (2.13%) GCP
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.06%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (1.06%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (1.06%) OCI
3 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) Internet
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) Modbus
2 1 (1.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.11%) SQL Server
2 27 (28.72%) Oracle Database
3 13 (13.83%) Power BI
4 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.26%) MS Access
4 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.13%) Looker
6 2 (2.13%) Power Query
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.06%) Big Data
7 1 (1.06%) Metadata
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.06%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Visual Studio
2 5 (5.32%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.06%) ERwin
3 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 45 (47.87%) Finance
2 27 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.09%) Front Office
4 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.70%) Banking
6 9 (9.57%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.32%) Retail
8 2 (2.13%) Back Office
8 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Local Government
8 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Publishing
9 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Electronics
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (47.87%) Developer
2 29 (30.85%) C# Developer
3 28 (29.79%) Analyst
4 21 (22.34%) .NET Developer
5 18 (19.15%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (10.64%) C# WPF Developer
6 10 (10.64%) WPF Developer
7 8 (8.51%) C# WCF Developer
7 8 (8.51%) WCF Developer
8 7 (7.45%) VBA Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior
9 6 (6.38%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Pricing Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Qualitative Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Quantitative Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) RAD Developer
12 3 (3.19%) Portfolio Analyst
12 3 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (50.00%) .NET
2 32 (34.04%) .NET Framework
3 11 (11.70%) WPF
4 10 (10.64%) WinForms
5 8 (8.51%) WCF
6 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.13%) ActiveX
8 1 (1.06%) HTML
8 1 (1.06%) Kafka
8 1 (1.06%) Middleware
8 1 (1.06%) React
8 1 (1.06%) Spring
8 1 (1.06%) XML
8 1 (1.06%) XSD
8 1 (1.06%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.45%) Equities
2 7 (7.45%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.32%) Derivative
3 5 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.19%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.19%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.13%) NHS
6 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (25.53%) Windows
2 5 (5.32%) Unix
3 4 (4.26%) Linux
4 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.30%) Data Analysis
2 22 (23.40%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (9.57%) Computer Science
6 8 (8.51%) Agile
7 7 (7.45%) Analytics
7 7 (7.45%) Workflow
8 6 (6.38%) DevOps
8 6 (6.38%) Economics
8 6 (6.38%) ITIL
8 6 (6.38%) OO
8 6 (6.38%) RAD
8 6 (6.38%) Roadmaps
8 6 (6.38%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (5.32%) Data Modelling
9 5 (5.32%) Decision-Making
9 5 (5.32%) OOP
9 5 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (5.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (71.28%) SQL
2 49 (52.13%) C#
3 30 (31.91%) VB
3 30 (31.91%) VB.NET
4 26 (27.66%) PL/SQL
5 24 (25.53%) Python
5 24 (25.53%) T-SQL
6 15 (15.96%) C++
7 12 (12.77%) Java
8 5 (5.32%) MATLAB
9 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.26%) Perl
9 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.06%) R
12 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) CFA
3 4 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.13%) MBA
5 2 (2.13%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.47%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Basel III
2 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) PMO
3 2 (2.13%) COREP
3 2 (2.13%) FINREP
4 1 (1.06%) Basel II
4 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Cronacle
2 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (36.17%) Oracle
2 21 (22.34%) Citrix
3 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.51%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.13%) Reuters
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.06%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Kepware
6 1 (1.06%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.06%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.06%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) Siemens
6 1 (1.06%) Sybase
6 1 (1.06%) Trayport
6 1 (1.06%) Wonderware