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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 264 316
Rank change year-on-year -93 +52 -31
Contract jobs citing VBA 52 84 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.67% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.69% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 66 64
10th Percentile £316 £376 £354
25th Percentile £390 £385 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £488 £552 £595
90th Percentile £600 £700 £738
England median daily rate £408 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +2.00% -0.13% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £29.07 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year - +12.72% -
England median hourly rate £25.42 £29.07 £25.79
% change year-on-year -12.57% +12.72% +2.20%

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 5,719 4,980 6,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.20% 39.62% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,881 3,502 4,917
10th Percentile £363 £378 £380
25th Percentile £431 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 31 55
10th Percentile £34.20 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.44 £35.00 £34.42
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -14.85% -12.17%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £71.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -17 4 £575 +25.00% 11
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 13 (25.00%) IIS
2 2 (3.85%) SAS
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (73.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.54%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (1.92%) Alphatax
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.92%) OneSumX
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.77%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) Collibra
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
3 2 (3.85%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.92%) Google Drive
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.92%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 13 (25.00%) Power BI
1 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) Power Query
3 5 (9.62%) Tableau
4 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.92%) Cognos Query Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.92%) Metadata
5 1 (1.92%) MS Access
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.92%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.92%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.92%) Selenium
3 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (51.92%) Finance
2 19 (36.54%) Banking
3 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Front Office
5 5 (9.62%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.69%) Retail
7 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Analyst
3 14 (26.92%) C# Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Applications Developer
4 8 (15.38%) C# Application Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Business Analyst
5 6 (11.54%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 4 (7.69%) RAD Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Data Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Risk Business Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) C++ Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Credit Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Senior C++ Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) .NET
2 13 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 13 (25.00%) WinForms
2 13 (25.00%) WPF
3 7 (13.46%) Pandas
4 6 (11.54%) COM
4 6 (11.54%) NumPy
5 5 (9.62%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (3.85%) Plotly
6 2 (3.85%) Qt
6 2 (3.85%) WCF
6 2 (3.85%) Web Services
7 1 (1.92%) Kafka
7 1 (1.92%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.92%) Node.js
7 1 (1.92%) SciPy
7 1 (1.92%) Seaborn
7 1 (1.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Equities
2 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (9.62%) Hedge funds
3 4 (7.69%) Credit Risk
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Data Analysis
2 15 (28.85%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (21.15%) Decision-Making
4 11 (21.15%) Migration
5 9 (17.31%) Analytics
6 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.46%) Data Management
7 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
8 5 (9.62%) Data Migration
8 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (7.69%) Business Analysis
9 4 (7.69%) Data Governance
9 4 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (7.69%) Prototyping
9 4 (7.69%) RAD
9 4 (7.69%) Rapid Prototyping
9 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (7.69%) User Stories
9 4 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (71.15%) SQL
2 18 (34.62%) Python
3 17 (32.69%) C#
4 14 (26.92%) T-SQL
5 13 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 13 (25.00%) VB
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) C++
7 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.85%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.92%) COBOL
8 1 (1.92%) Java
8 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.92%) R
8 1 (1.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) ACCA
1 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) COREP
3 2 (3.85%) FINREP
3 2 (3.85%) MiFID
4 1 (1.92%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Control-M
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Citrix
1 14 (26.92%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Murex
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) Yardi
5 1 (1.92%) Advent
5 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.92%) BT
5 1 (1.92%) Cognos
5 1 (1.92%) IBM
5 1 (1.92%) Informatica
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.92%) Pega
5 1 (1.92%) UiPath
5 1 (1.92%) Wolters Kluwer