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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 265 287
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 +37
Contract jobs citing VBA 62 89 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.64% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.67% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 82
10th Percentile £324 £346 £385
25th Percentile £385 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £390 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -15.68% -14.35%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £700
90th Percentile £671 £675 £750
England median daily rate £408 £390 £430
% change year-on-year +4.49% -9.30% -18.10%
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 - - -48.42%

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 5,238 5,315 6,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.30% 38.18% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 3,530 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -2.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £699 £700
90th Percentile £776 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 66
10th Percentile £25.93 £35.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £35.50 £39.02 £36.42
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.19 £69.50 £64.31
90th Percentile £81.38 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -10 7 £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 (14.52%) IIS
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (62.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.61%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.84%) AWS
2 3 (4.84%) Azure
3 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.61%) GitHub
4 1 (1.61%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.61%) MailChimp
4 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.61%) SaaS
4 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.42%) Oracle Database
2 16 (25.81%) Power BI
3 14 (22.58%) SQL Server
4 6 (9.68%) Tableau
5 2 (3.23%) DB2
5 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.61%) Cognos Query Studio
6 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.61%) MS Access
6 1 (1.61%) Power Query
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Git
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (53.23%) Finance
2 16 (25.81%) Front Office
3 15 (24.19%) Banking
4 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
5 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (50.00%) Developer
2 17 (27.42%) C# Developer
3 15 (24.19%) C# WPF Developer
3 15 (24.19%) WPF Developer
4 14 (22.58%) Analyst
5 9 (14.52%) Python Developer
5 9 (14.52%) RAD Developer
6 8 (12.90%) .NET Developer
6 8 (12.90%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (11.29%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (11.29%) WCF Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Consultant
9 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Operations Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Data Administrator
10 2 (3.23%) Excel Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Product Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Quantitative Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) .NET
1 17 (27.42%) .NET Framework
1 17 (27.42%) WPF
2 10 (16.13%) Pandas
2 10 (16.13%) REST
3 9 (14.52%) COM
3 9 (14.52%) NumPy
3 9 (14.52%) WinForms
4 7 (11.29%) WCF
5 3 (4.84%) XML
5 3 (4.84%) XSLT
6 2 (3.23%) HTML
6 2 (3.23%) JSON
6 2 (3.23%) Plotly
7 1 (1.61%) PySpark
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (17.74%) Equities
3 10 (16.13%) Hedge funds
4 6 (9.68%) Derivative
5 3 (4.84%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.23%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.61%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.61%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Data Analysis
2 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.81%) Analytics
3 16 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (20.97%) Risk Management
5 11 (17.74%) Pricing Analytics
6 9 (14.52%) Agile
6 9 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (14.52%) Prototyping
6 9 (14.52%) RAD
6 9 (14.52%) Rapid Prototyping
7 8 (12.90%) Migration
8 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
9 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.06%) Validation
11 4 (6.45%) Data Management
11 4 (6.45%) Data Modelling
11 4 (6.45%) ETL
11 4 (6.45%) Mathematics
11 4 (6.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (79.03%) SQL
2 29 (46.77%) Python
3 20 (32.26%) C#
3 20 (32.26%) VB
4 19 (30.65%) PL/SQL
5 11 (17.74%) T-SQL
6 8 (12.90%) VB.NET
7 4 (6.45%) C++
8 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.84%) R
9 2 (3.23%) Java
9 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.23%) VC++
10 1 (1.61%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) ACCA
4 1 (1.61%) CFA
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.35%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) EMIR
3 2 (3.23%) MiFID
4 1 (1.61%) IFRS
4 1 (1.61%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Control-M
1 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (37.10%) Oracle
2 10 (16.13%) Citrix
3 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.84%) Alteryx
4 3 (4.84%) Cognos
5 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) Yardi
6 1 (1.61%) Databricks
6 1 (1.61%) EMC
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.61%) Murex
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce