VBA Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 81 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% 0.25% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 1.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £433 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% - -
North West median daily rate £438 £433 -
% change year-on-year +1.16% - -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 290 294 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.00% 24.73% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 195 410
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £367 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -5.76% -9.05%
75th Percentile £548 £534 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £32.25 - £55.88
25th Percentile £46.41 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82.50 £100.00 £76.56
90th Percentile £90.00 - £79.13
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.55% +6.11% -12.41%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

VBA job vacancy trend in Manchester

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VBA

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle