VBA Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring VBA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VBA over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 129 159
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +14
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.100% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.96% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £256 -
25th Percentile £393 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £518 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.67% +38.00% -18.48%
75th Percentile £398 £535 £388
90th Percentile - £539 -
England median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.20 - £23.22
England median hourly rate £29.07 - £25.24
% change year-on-year - - +55.48%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 523 628 849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.03% 23.29% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 455 622
10th Percentile £268 £260 £313
25th Percentile £366 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 13
10th Percentile £16.31 £22.42 £19.24
25th Percentile £18.28 £27.38 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.25 £51.78 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -51.24% +95.54% -24.34%
75th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £60.13 £89.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the Midlands

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VBA in the Midlands

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the Midlands

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
East Midlands +12 1 - - 10
West Midlands +1 1 £395 -24.76% 23
VBA
England

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) PyCharm
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) UiPath