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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 269 300
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 +41
Contract jobs citing VBA 84 105 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.67% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.72% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 69 95
10th Percentile £336 £313 £385
25th Percentile £385 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -25.41%
75th Percentile £522 £488 £694
90th Percentile £671 £655 £780
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -24.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.79
England median hourly rate £42.50 - £25.79
% change year-on-year - - +77.86%

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 5,464 6,087 7,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.04% 38.71% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,670 4,142 5,258
10th Percentile £363 £373 £395
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 39 68
10th Percentile £25.46 £36.55 £26.11
25th Percentile £35.50 £40.32 £36.70
Median hourly rate £49.47 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.50 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £97.50 £74.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -1.71%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -5 11 £645 +17.27% 2
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 9 (10.71%) IIS
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (71.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.19%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.95%) Nutanix
3 4 (4.76%) Azure
4 3 (3.57%) AWS
5 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub
6 1 (1.19%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.19%) MailChimp
6 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Internet
2 1 (1.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 21 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 16 (19.05%) Power BI
4 6 (7.14%) Tableau
5 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.38%) DB2
5 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.19%) Cognos Query Studio
6 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.19%) MS Access
6 1 (1.19%) Power Query
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (55.95%) Finance
2 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.05%) Front Office
4 15 (17.86%) Banking
5 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.19%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (59.52%) Developer
2 21 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 20 (23.81%) C# WPF Developer
3 20 (23.81%) WPF Developer
4 17 (20.24%) Analyst
5 13 (15.48%) .NET Developer
6 12 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (11.90%) VBA Developer
8 9 (10.71%) Python Developer
8 9 (10.71%) RAD Developer
9 8 (9.52%) C# WCF Developer
9 8 (9.52%) WCF Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Business Analyst
10 5 (5.95%) ETL Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Consultant
11 4 (4.76%) Excel Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Operations Analyst
12 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
12 3 (3.57%) Excel VBA Developer
13 2 (2.38%) Analyst Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.19%) .NET
2 21 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 21 (25.00%) WPF
3 10 (11.90%) Pandas
3 10 (11.90%) REST
4 9 (10.71%) COM
4 9 (10.71%) NumPy
4 9 (10.71%) WinForms
5 8 (9.52%) WCF
6 7 (8.33%) XML
7 6 (7.14%) JSON
8 5 (5.95%) RESTful
9 3 (3.57%) MDX
9 3 (3.57%) XSLT
10 2 (2.38%) HTML
10 2 (2.38%) Plotly
11 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
11 1 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Equities
1 11 (13.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (11.90%) Hedge funds
3 6 (7.14%) Derivative
4 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.38%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.38%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.38%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.19%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.19%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (1.19%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.71%) Data Analysis
1 30 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (20.24%) Analytics
3 16 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 11 (13.10%) Pricing Analytics
6 9 (10.71%) Agile
6 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (10.71%) ETL
6 9 (10.71%) Prototyping
6 9 (10.71%) RAD
6 9 (10.71%) Rapid Prototyping
7 8 (9.52%) Validation
8 7 (8.33%) Migration
9 6 (7.14%) Capacity Management
9 6 (7.14%) Decision-Making
9 6 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (5.95%) Agile Project Management
10 5 (5.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (72.62%) SQL
2 34 (40.48%) Python
3 25 (29.76%) C#
4 24 (28.57%) VB
5 23 (27.38%) PL/SQL
6 15 (17.86%) T-SQL
7 12 (14.29%) VB.NET
8 4 (4.76%) C++
9 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.57%) R
10 2 (2.38%) Java
10 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.38%) VC++
11 1 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) ACCA
4 2 (2.38%) CFA
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) QA
2 7 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) EMIR
3 2 (2.38%) MiFID
4 1 (1.19%) IFRS
4 1 (1.19%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Control-M
1 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (32.14%) Oracle
2 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.90%) Citrix
4 6 (7.14%) VMware
5 5 (5.95%) EMC
6 4 (4.76%) Alteryx
6 4 (4.76%) Cognos
7 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.38%) SAP
8 1 (1.19%) Cisco
8 1 (1.19%) Databricks
8 1 (1.19%) Google
8 1 (1.19%) HP
8 1 (1.19%) IBM
8 1 (1.19%) Informatica
8 1 (1.19%) Yardi