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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 254 299
Rank change year-on-year -67 +45 -1
Contract jobs citing VBA 63 94 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.69% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.76% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 60 80
10th Percentile £296 £350 £383
25th Percentile £385 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £390 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -8.24% -21.30%
75th Percentile £488 £561 £663
90th Percentile £624 £678 £748
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -23.81%
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 £38.11 £25.79
% change year-on-year +11.52% +47.77% -33.23%

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 5,420 5,329 6,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.34% 38.88% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 3,497 4,851
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £552 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% -4.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £698
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 36 69
10th Percentile £23.97 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £35.75 £38.44 £39.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.10 £66.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 5 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 5 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 -13 7 £623 +13.18% 7
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 (17.46%) IIS
2 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (61.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (1.59%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.76%) Azure
3 2 (3.17%) AWS
3 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub
4 1 (1.59%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.59%) MailChimp
4 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.59%) SaaS
4 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Internet
2 1 (1.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) Oracle Database
1 16 (25.40%) Power BI
2 14 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.52%) Tableau
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.59%) Cognos Query Studio
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) DB2
5 1 (1.59%) MS Access
5 1 (1.59%) Power Query
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Git
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (49.21%) Finance
2 19 (30.16%) Banking
3 15 (23.81%) Front Office
4 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (50.79%) Developer
2 17 (26.98%) C# Developer
3 15 (23.81%) Analyst
4 11 (17.46%) C# WPF Developer
4 11 (17.46%) WPF Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 9 (14.29%) RAD Developer
6 6 (9.52%) C# WCF Developer
6 6 (9.52%) WCF Developer
7 5 (7.94%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Business Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.94%) C# Application Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Administrator
8 3 (4.76%) Data Administrator
8 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.98%) .NET
2 16 (25.40%) .NET Framework
2 16 (25.40%) WPF
3 11 (17.46%) WinForms
4 10 (15.87%) COM
4 10 (15.87%) Pandas
4 10 (15.87%) REST
5 9 (14.29%) NumPy
6 6 (9.52%) WCF
7 3 (4.76%) XSLT
8 2 (3.17%) Plotly
8 2 (3.17%) XML
9 1 (1.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 1 (1.59%) HTML
9 1 (1.59%) JSON
9 1 (1.59%) PySpark
9 1 (1.59%) Qt
9 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Equities
1 12 (19.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (15.87%) Hedge funds
3 6 (9.52%) Derivative
4 3 (4.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) Data Analysis
2 20 (31.75%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.98%) Analytics
4 16 (25.40%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 11 (17.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (17.46%) Pricing Analytics
7 10 (15.87%) Migration
8 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 9 (14.29%) Prototyping
8 9 (14.29%) RAD
8 9 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
9 7 (11.11%) Agile
10 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (7.94%) Data Management
12 4 (6.35%) Data Migration
12 4 (6.35%) Mathematics
12 4 (6.35%) Visualisation
13 3 (4.76%) Data Protection
13 3 (4.76%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 47 (74.60%) SQL
2 28 (44.44%) Python
3 21 (33.33%) C#
4 18 (28.57%) VB
5 17 (26.98%) PL/SQL
6 12 (19.05%) T-SQL
7 5 (7.94%) C++
7 5 (7.94%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.17%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.17%) R
8 2 (3.17%) VC++
9 1 (1.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.17%) EMIR
3 2 (3.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) Oracle
2 12 (19.05%) Citrix
3 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.17%) Cognos
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) Murex
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
4 2 (3.17%) Yardi
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) Informatica
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) VMware