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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 267 303
Rank change year-on-year -74 +36 -13
Contract jobs citing VBA 53 84 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 1.69% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 64 78
10th Percentile £318 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £390 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -8.24% -19.05%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £619
90th Percentile £588 £668 £744
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -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% -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 5,669 4,972 6,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.99% 39.31% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 3,450 4,808
10th Percentile £363 £375 £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 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 32 58
10th Percentile £23.43 £29.07 £25.67
25th Percentile £40.25 £38.22 £40.09
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.75 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -12.23% -9.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £67.25 £70.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.38%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 5 £550 +19.57% 4
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 11 (20.75%) IIS
2 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (66.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (1.89%) Alphatax
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.89%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.55%) Azure
3 2 (3.77%) GCP
3 2 (3.77%) Google Workspace
3 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.89%) AWS
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Collibra
4 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.89%) GitHub
4 1 (1.89%) Google Drive
4 1 (1.89%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.89%) MailChimp
4 1 (1.89%) PaaS
4 1 (1.89%) SaaS
4 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.89%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Power BI
2 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
3 11 (20.75%) Oracle Database
4 5 (9.43%) Tableau
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Power Query
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.89%) Cognos Query Studio
6 1 (1.89%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.89%) Metadata
6 1 (1.89%) MS Access
6 1 (1.89%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (52.83%) Finance
2 21 (39.62%) Banking
3 10 (18.87%) Front Office
3 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Retail
6 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (47.17%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Analyst
3 12 (22.64%) C# Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Python Developer
4 9 (16.98%) RAD Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Applications Developer
5 8 (15.09%) C# Application Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Administrator
7 3 (5.66%) C# WCF Developer
7 3 (5.66%) C# WPF Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Administrator
7 3 (5.66%) WCF Developer
7 3 (5.66%) WPF Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Quantitative Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior C++ Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) .NET
2 11 (20.75%) .NET Framework
2 11 (20.75%) COM
2 11 (20.75%) Pandas
2 11 (20.75%) WinForms
2 11 (20.75%) WPF
3 10 (18.87%) REST
4 9 (16.98%) NumPy
5 3 (5.66%) WCF
6 2 (3.77%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (3.77%) Plotly
6 2 (3.77%) Qt
6 2 (3.77%) Web Services
7 1 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Equities
2 10 (18.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (18.87%) Hedge funds
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.77%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.77%) Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.89%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (49.06%) Data Analysis
2 15 (28.30%) Analytics
3 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (22.64%) Migration
6 11 (20.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (20.75%) Risk Management
7 9 (16.98%) Pricing Analytics
7 9 (16.98%) Prototyping
7 9 (16.98%) RAD
7 9 (16.98%) Rapid Prototyping
8 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
9 6 (11.32%) Data Management
10 5 (9.43%) Data Migration
10 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (7.55%) User Stories
12 3 (5.66%) Financial Modelling
12 3 (5.66%) Reverse Engineering
12 3 (5.66%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (67.92%) SQL
2 23 (43.40%) Python
3 14 (26.42%) C#
4 12 (22.64%) T-SQL
5 11 (20.75%) PL/SQL
5 11 (20.75%) VB
6 3 (5.66%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (3.77%) C++
8 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.89%) R
8 1 (1.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) Degree
1 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.77%) MiFID
4 1 (1.89%) COREP
4 1 (1.89%) FINREP
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Citrix
1 12 (22.64%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.77%) Murex
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
4 2 (3.77%) Yardi
5 1 (1.89%) Advent
5 1 (1.89%) Cognos
5 1 (1.89%) Databricks
5 1 (1.89%) Informatica
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce