VBA Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VBA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 423 457
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +46
Contract jobs citing VBA 139 143 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.16% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 140
10th Percentile £294 £313 £345
25th Percentile £385 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £390 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -17.89% -7.32%
75th Percentile £545 £488 £688
90th Percentile £743 £633 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -13.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £29.28 - -
25th Percentile £30.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £23.22
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile £45.95 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 - £23.22
% change year-on-year - - +60.14%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,751 12,316 15,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.92% 32.08% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,102 8,292 11,326
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -4.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 346 457
10th Percentile £29.00 £27.00 £34.70
25th Percentile £40.31 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £78.96 £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.47%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBA

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBA

VBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 September 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
England +7 131 £408 +4.49% 120
London +5 93 £408 +4.68% 63
UK excluding London +27 44 £400 -11.11% 85
Work from Home +18 26 £489 +30.40% 53
East of England +10 12 - - 10
West Midlands -13 9 £463 -11.90% 9
Midlands -17 9 £463 -11.90% 12
South West +34 8 £207 -41.04% 8
Scotland +6 8 £470 +13.82% 3
North of England -24 7 £400 -7.51% 11
Yorkshire -18 4 £375 -16.67% 4
North West -9 3 £438 +8.36% 7

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (6.47%) IIS
2 4 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 111 (79.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.88%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.72%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.72%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (2.16%) Bankmaster
3 2 (1.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.44%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.72%) HFM
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.72%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.55%) Power Platform
2 16 (11.51%) Azure
3 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.60%) Apigee
4 5 (3.60%) Cloud Functions
4 5 (3.60%) GCP
4 5 (3.60%) Nutanix
4 5 (3.60%) Serverless
5 3 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.16%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.44%) AWS
6 2 (1.44%) IaaS
6 2 (1.44%) PaaS
6 2 (1.44%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) Internet
2 6 (4.32%) SpaceWire
3 5 (3.60%) RS-232
4 1 (0.72%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.72%) VoIP
4 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.86%) Oracle Database
1 29 (20.86%) SQL Server
2 21 (15.11%) Power BI
3 20 (14.39%) Power Query
4 6 (4.32%) MySQL
5 5 (3.60%) MS Access
5 5 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.60%) Tableau
6 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.44%) DB2
8 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.72%) OLAP
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.72%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Git
2 5 (3.60%) JIRA
3 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.44%) Postman
3 2 (1.44%) Selenium
3 2 (1.44%) Subversion
3 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.44%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (46.76%) Finance
2 38 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.35%) Front Office
5 12 (8.63%) Banking
6 8 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.60%) Legal
8 5 (3.60%) Local Government
9 3 (2.16%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Back Office
10 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (42.45%) Developer
2 42 (30.22%) Analyst
3 29 (20.86%) C# Developer
3 29 (20.86%) C# WPF Developer
3 29 (20.86%) WPF Developer
4 23 (16.55%) .NET Developer
5 20 (14.39%) C# .NET Developer
6 18 (12.95%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.19%) VBA Developer
8 9 (6.47%) C# WCF Developer
8 9 (6.47%) WCF Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Qualitative Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Quantitative Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Systems Analyst
10 6 (4.32%) ERP Analyst
10 6 (4.32%) Senior
11 5 (3.60%) Cloud Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Consultant
11 5 (3.60%) ETL Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.18%) .NET
2 29 (20.86%) .NET Framework
2 29 (20.86%) WPF
3 9 (6.47%) WCF
3 9 (6.47%) WinForms
4 7 (5.04%) HTML
4 7 (5.04%) XML
5 6 (4.32%) JSON
6 5 (3.60%) CSS
6 5 (3.60%) Node.js
6 5 (3.60%) RESTful
7 4 (2.88%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.16%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.16%) MDX
8 3 (2.16%) XSLT
9 1 (0.72%) Altair
9 1 (0.72%) ODBC
9 1 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.19%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.04%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.60%) CAN bus
3 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.60%) Derivative
4 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.16%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.16%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.44%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.44%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 39 (28.06%) Windows
2 7 (5.04%) Linux
3 2 (1.44%) Unix
3 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (20.14%) Data Analysis
3 23 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (16.55%) Validation
4 19 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (10.79%) ETL
6 14 (10.07%) Agile
7 12 (8.63%) Analytics
7 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
8 10 (7.19%) DevOps
9 9 (6.47%) Computer Science
9 9 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (6.47%) Data Extraction
9 9 (6.47%) Decision-Making
9 9 (6.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (5.76%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (5.76%) ERP
10 8 (5.76%) Task Automation
11 7 (5.04%) PnL Attribution
11 7 (5.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (65.47%) SQL
2 49 (35.25%) Python
3 38 (27.34%) C#
4 34 (24.46%) VB
5 31 (22.30%) PL/SQL
6 20 (14.39%) VB.NET
7 17 (12.23%) T-SQL
8 10 (7.19%) Java
9 7 (5.04%) Tcl
10 6 (4.32%) Bash
10 6 (4.32%) C
10 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
11 5 (3.60%) C++
11 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.44%) R
12 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.44%) VBScript
12 2 (1.44%) VC++
13 1 (0.72%) Korn
13 1 (0.72%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (7.19%) Degree
2 5 (3.60%) CIMA
2 5 (3.60%) DBS Check
2 5 (3.60%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.16%) ACCA
3 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.16%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.44%) CFA
4 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.44%) ISEB
4 2 (1.44%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) CIPFA
5 1 (0.72%) HNC
5 1 (0.72%) MCSA
5 1 (0.72%) MCSE
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) QA
2 10 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) EMIR
3 2 (1.44%) PMO
4 1 (0.72%) Basel III
4 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.72%) IFRS
4 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
1 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.88%) Control-M
1 4 (2.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (29.50%) Oracle
2 33 (23.74%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.47%) Citrix
4 6 (4.32%) Apple
4 6 (4.32%) VMware
5 5 (3.60%) EMC
5 5 (3.60%) Google
6 4 (2.88%) Cognos
7 3 (2.16%) SAP
8 2 (1.44%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.44%) IBM
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco
9 1 (0.72%) HP
9 1 (0.72%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) Workday