VBA Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 180 213
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 -6
Contract jobs citing VBA 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.32% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £371 £340
25th Percentile £406 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -3.32%
75th Percentile £419 £434 £435
90th Percentile - £444 £456
England median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -0.13% -20.00% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the North of England

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VBA in the North of England

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the North of England

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +7 3 £413 -8.33% 24
VBA
England

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Attestation
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft