VBA Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 378 448 386
Rank change year-on-year +70 -62 +91
Contract jobs citing VBA 107 94 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.25% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 0.86% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 71 221
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £385 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £24.70 - £23.51
25th Percentile - - £23.95
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.79 £25.24
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% +2.20% +29.41%
75th Percentile £42.16 - £27.09
90th Percentile £54.00 - £27.86
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.79 £25.24
% change year-on-year +12.72% +2.20% +29.41%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBA in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 May 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
London +47 86 £400 - 161
East of England - 7 £400 - 26
South East +42 4 £450 +32.35% 44
Midlands +23 3 £395 +50.48% 36
North of England +17 3 £413 - 42
Yorkshire +7 3 £413 -8.33% 17
South West - 3 £207 - 28
West Midlands +15 2 £395 +21.54% 18
East Midlands +10 1 - - 14
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 13 (12.15%) SharePoint
2 11 (10.28%) IIS
3 5 (4.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 80 (74.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (12.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (5.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Bankmaster
1 3 (2.80%) Endur
2 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) HFM
3 1 (0.93%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.93%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.30%) Power Platform
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
4 4 (3.74%) Azure
5 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) Internet
2 3 (2.80%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (2.80%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.93%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.17%) Oracle Database
2 22 (20.56%) Power BI
3 21 (19.63%) SQL Server
4 12 (11.21%) MS Access
5 11 (10.28%) Power Query
6 9 (8.41%) Tableau
7 5 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.80%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.87%) Cognos Query Studio
10 1 (0.93%) Big Data
10 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Metadata
10 1 (0.93%) OLAP
10 1 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) PyCharm
General
1 43 (40.19%) Finance
2 32 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.82%) Front Office
5 14 (13.08%) Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Legal
7 4 (3.74%) Local Government
7 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.87%) Back Office
9 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Aviation
10 1 (0.93%) Avionics
10 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 54 (50.47%) Developer
2 30 (28.04%) Analyst
2 30 (28.04%) C# Developer
3 29 (27.10%) C# WPF Developer
3 29 (27.10%) WPF Developer
4 19 (17.76%) .NET Developer
5 18 (16.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 14 (13.08%) Data Analyst
7 11 (10.28%) C# WCF Developer
7 11 (10.28%) WCF Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Senior
9 7 (6.54%) Risk Analyst
10 6 (5.61%) Qualitative Analyst
10 6 (5.61%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (4.67%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.67%) Information Analyst
12 4 (3.74%) Access Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 3 (2.80%) Implementation Analyst
13 3 (2.80%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (31.78%) .NET
2 30 (28.04%) .NET Framework
3 29 (27.10%) WPF
4 11 (10.28%) WCF
4 11 (10.28%) WinForms
5 4 (3.74%) CSS
5 4 (3.74%) HTML
6 3 (2.80%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.87%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.87%) NumPy
7 2 (1.87%) Pandas
8 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.93%) jQuery
8 1 (0.93%) ODBC
8 1 (0.93%) OLE
8 1 (0.93%) Playwright
8 1 (0.93%) React
8 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
1 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.87%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.87%) Spread Betting
4 1 (0.93%) CAN bus
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (32.71%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.17%) Data Analysis
2 22 (20.56%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (14.02%) Migration
4 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (10.28%) Computer Science
5 11 (10.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (8.41%) Data Management
6 9 (8.41%) Data Migration
6 9 (8.41%) Data Modelling
6 9 (8.41%) Validation
7 8 (7.48%) Decision-Making
7 8 (7.48%) Visualisation
8 7 (6.54%) ETRM
8 7 (6.54%) PnL Attribution
8 7 (6.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (5.61%) Agile
9 6 (5.61%) Analytics
9 6 (5.61%) Data Integration
9 6 (5.61%) Greeks
9 6 (5.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 63 (58.88%) SQL
2 36 (33.64%) Python
3 35 (32.71%) C#
4 32 (29.91%) VB
5 29 (27.10%) PL/SQL
6 19 (17.76%) VB.NET
7 12 (11.21%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.67%) Java
10 3 (2.80%) Bash
10 3 (2.80%) C
10 3 (2.80%) R
10 3 (2.80%) Tcl
11 2 (1.87%) C++
11 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.93%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.35%) Degree
2 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.80%) HNC
4 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) ACCA
5 1 (0.93%) CIMA
5 1 (0.93%) CIPFA
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) QA
2 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.80%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.93%) Basel III
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 34 (31.78%) Oracle
2 32 (29.91%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.28%) Citrix
4 5 (4.67%) SAP
5 3 (2.80%) Apple
6 2 (1.87%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.87%) Ariba
6 2 (1.87%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.87%) Cognos
6 2 (1.87%) EMC
6 2 (1.87%) Informatica
6 2 (1.87%) Trayport
6 2 (1.87%) UiPath
7 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.93%) Calypso
7 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Twitter