VBA Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 105 127 155
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing VBA 11 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.090% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 0.30% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £400 - £342
25th Percentile £413 £413 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +2.41% -0.90%
75th Percentile £489 £438 £421
90th Percentile £501 - £425
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VBA in Scotland

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VBA in Scotland

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VBA in Scotland

VBA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +11 8 £470 +10.47% 3
Glasgow - 3 - - 3
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) IaaS
1 3 (27.27%) PaaS
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
1 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power Query
2 1 (9.09%) MS Access
2 1 (9.09%) QlikView
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
1 3 (27.27%) Postman
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) Subversion
1 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
1 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Credit Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
2 3 (27.27%) Credit Risk
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Budget Management
1 4 (36.36%) Budgeting
1 4 (36.36%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 4 (36.36%) Business Forecasting
2 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (27.27%) ATDD
2 3 (27.27%) BDD
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
2 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (27.27%) Kanban
2 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Scorecard
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) V-Model
2 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) C++
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 3 (27.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CIMA
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) ISEB
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Alteryx
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle