VBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 309 377 370
Rank change year-on-year +68 -7 +42
Contract jobs citing VBA 33 23 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.11% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 0.47% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 41
10th Percentile £184 £223 £290
25th Percentile £292 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% -5.35%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £488
90th Percentile £489 £538 £500
UK median daily rate £408 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -9.28% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £22.65 - £23.51
25th Percentile £29.33 - £23.95
Median hourly rate £39.32 - £25.24
75th Percentile £53.75 - £27.09
90th Percentile £54.50 - £27.86
UK median hourly rate £29.20 - £25.24
% change year-on-year - - +64.24%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,770 4,940 6,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.02% 23.72% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 3,306 4,469
10th Percentile £322 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £560 £583 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £680
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 432 323
10th Percentile £27.91 £37.55 £26.48
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.26% -0.80% +20.77%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +16 11 £470 +10.47% 27
South West - 5 £207 - 73
South East +47 4 £450 +32.35% 187
North of England +14 4 £413 - 129
Midlands +5 4 - - 126
West Midlands +14 3 - - 70
Yorkshire +10 3 £413 -8.33% 55
East of England - 3 - - 97
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8
North West +11 1 £475 +26.67% 58
East Midlands +7 1 - - 47
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) SAS
1 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (75.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle Smart View
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.09%) IaaS
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) PaaS
3 3 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 3 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (9.09%) SpaceWire
2 1 (3.03%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power Query
2 6 (18.18%) Power BI
3 3 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) MS Access
5 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.03%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) QlikView
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
1 3 (9.09%) Postman
1 3 (9.09%) Selenium
1 3 (9.09%) Subversion
1 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
1 3 (9.09%) WebDriver
2 1 (3.03%) PyCharm
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Legal
5 4 (12.12%) Local Government
6 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
7 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
7 2 (6.06%) Automotive
7 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.03%) Aviation
8 1 (3.03%) Avionics
8 1 (3.03%) Banking
8 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Credit Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Report Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Electrical Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Telecoms Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
1 4 (12.12%) CSS
1 4 (12.12%) HTML
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.03%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
1 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 3 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.06%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.03%) CAN bus
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Management
1 6 (18.18%) Migration
1 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
3 4 (12.12%) Agile
3 4 (12.12%) Budget Management
3 4 (12.12%) Budgeting
3 4 (12.12%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 4 (12.12%) Business Forecasting
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (12.12%) Validation
4 3 (9.09%) Attestation
4 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 3 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (9.09%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) SQL
3 6 (18.18%) Java
4 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
5 3 (9.09%) C
5 3 (9.09%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 3 (9.09%) Tcl
5 3 (9.09%) VBScript
6 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.03%) Korn
6 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) VB
6 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.03%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) CIMA
2 4 (12.12%) DBS Check
3 3 (9.09%) ISEB
3 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (9.09%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) MCSA
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
1 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 4 (12.12%) Alteryx
3 4 (12.12%) Apple
3 4 (12.12%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) EMC
5 1 (3.03%) Twitter