VBA Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 262 301
Rank change year-on-year -68 +39 +9
Contract jobs citing VBA 64 97 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.85% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 64 85
10th Percentile £296 £354 £372
25th Percentile £385 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £488 £561 £638
90th Percentile £613 £675 £745
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -20.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.11 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year - +47.77% -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £28.16 £25.79
% change year-on-year +50.95% +9.17% -5.36%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,588 5,232 6,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.97% 38.80% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,758 3,458 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £373 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 69
10th Percentile £23.38 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £36.25 £38.44 £39.85
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -3.38% -10.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £95.63 £72.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £61.05
% change year-on-year +3.17% +3.19% -6.08%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VBA job vacancy trend in London

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VBA

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in London

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VBA

VBA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London -20 7 £600 - 5
South London - 1 - -
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (18.75%) IIS
2 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (64.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (1.56%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.69%) Azure
3 2 (3.13%) AWS
3 2 (3.13%) GCP
3 2 (3.13%) Google Workspace
3 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.56%) GitHub
4 1 (1.56%) Google Drive
4 1 (1.56%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.56%) MailChimp
4 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.56%) SaaS
4 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.75%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 15 (23.44%) SQL Server
3 14 (21.88%) Power BI
4 4 (6.25%) Tableau
5 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.56%) Cognos Query Studio
6 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.56%) DB2
6 1 (1.56%) MS Access
6 1 (1.56%) Power Query
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (50.00%) Finance
2 21 (32.81%) Banking
3 14 (21.88%) Front Office
4 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.81%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Retail
8 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (53.13%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) C# Developer
3 15 (23.44%) Analyst
4 10 (15.63%) C# WPF Developer
4 10 (15.63%) WPF Developer
5 9 (14.06%) Python Developer
5 9 (14.06%) RAD Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Applications Developer
6 6 (9.38%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (9.38%) C# WCF Developer
6 6 (9.38%) WCF Developer
7 4 (6.25%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Administrator
8 3 (4.69%) Data Administrator
8 3 (4.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.56%) .NET
2 16 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 16 (25.00%) WPF
3 12 (18.75%) WinForms
4 11 (17.19%) COM
5 10 (15.63%) Pandas
5 10 (15.63%) REST
6 9 (14.06%) NumPy
7 6 (9.38%) WCF
8 2 (3.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (3.13%) Plotly
8 2 (3.13%) Qt
8 2 (3.13%) Web Services
8 2 (3.13%) XML
8 2 (3.13%) XSLT
9 1 (1.56%) HTML
9 1 (1.56%) JSON
9 1 (1.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Equities
2 12 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (15.63%) Hedge funds
4 5 (7.81%) Derivative
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.13%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.56%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.56%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Data Analysis
2 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.56%) Analytics
4 14 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (21.88%) Risk Management
5 12 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (17.19%) Migration
6 11 (17.19%) Pricing Analytics
7 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
7 9 (14.06%) Prototyping
7 9 (14.06%) RAD
7 9 (14.06%) Rapid Prototyping
8 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (7.81%) Agile
9 5 (7.81%) Data Management
10 4 (6.25%) Data Migration
10 4 (6.25%) Mathematics
10 4 (6.25%) Multithreading
10 4 (6.25%) User Stories
11 3 (4.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (71.88%) SQL
2 27 (42.19%) Python
3 22 (34.38%) C#
4 18 (28.13%) VB
5 17 (26.56%) PL/SQL
6 13 (20.31%) T-SQL
7 6 (9.38%) C++
8 4 (6.25%) VB.NET
9 3 (4.69%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.13%) VC++
11 1 (1.56%) Java
11 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.13%) EMIR
3 2 (3.13%) MiFID
4 1 (1.56%) COREP
4 1 (1.56%) FINREP
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Oracle
2 13 (20.31%) Citrix
3 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.69%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Alteryx
5 2 (3.13%) Cognos
5 2 (3.13%) Murex
5 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Yardi
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) VMware