VBA Contract Job Trends in Essex

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.79% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £375 £400 -
% change year-on-year -6.13% - -

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 30 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 16.96% 31.25% 44.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 66
10th Percentile £300 £305 £256
25th Percentile £363 £315 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £318 £455
Median % change year-on-year +38.36% -30.11% -9.00%
75th Percentile £662 £323 £551
90th Percentile £684 £375 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £477
% change year-on-year +10.13% -4.82% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £65.50 £31.00 £47.62
25th Percentile £66.25 £32.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -36.36% +120.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £117.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £69.50 £167.00 £80.20
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £66.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.35% +1.54% -

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

VBA job vacancy trend in Essex

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing VBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing VBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing VBA

VBA
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Essex region over the 6 months to 17 February 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
Maldon - 2 £375 -
VBA
East of England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Query
1 2 (100.00%) ZAP BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Report Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Sage Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SQL BI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sage