VBA Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing VBA 5 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.29% - 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% - 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 14
10th Percentile - - £329
25th Percentile £184 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £207 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile £229 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £408 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -9.44% -5.26% -4.04%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 434 675 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.34% 20.76% 27.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 450 653
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £543 £564
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.81% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 105 88
10th Percentile £61.25 £51.00 £51.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £60.53
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +9.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £61.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.20% - +19.05%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the South West

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VBA in the South West

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the South West

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Gloucestershire - 5 £207 - 18
VBA
England

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MS Access
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
1 4 (80.00%) Local Government
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle