VBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VBA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBA over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 333 461
Rank change year-on-year +8 +128 -128
Contract jobs citing VBA 29 149 152
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 1.53% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 118 116
10th Percentile £313 £373 £296
25th Percentile £340 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £406
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -1.54% -4.41%
75th Percentile £825 £560 £500
90th Percentile £875 £675 £623
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.13
25th Percentile - - £19.50
Median hourly rate - £23.22 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year - +14.67% -23.06%
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £21.50
UK median hourly rate £25.79 £25.24 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% +29.41% +6.78%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VBA is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,128 9,755 16,919
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.24% 37.47% 38.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 7,148 12,552
10th Percentile £350 £394 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £631
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 218 192
10th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +28.06% +10.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £77.20 £66.93
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

VBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VBA.

VBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VBA over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

VBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VBA.

VBA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.45%) IIS
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (20.69%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (6.90%) MS Access
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (3.45%) Power Query
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Visual Studio
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) ERwin
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) Subversion
3 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
3 7 (24.14%) Front Office
4 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Local Government
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Qualitative Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Quantitative Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
4 3 (10.34%) DBA
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office RAD Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) RAD Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.90%) WinForms
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Fixed Income
1 6 (20.69%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (13.79%) Equities
2 4 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (10.34%) NHS
4 2 (6.90%) Derivative
4 2 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) FMCG
5 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Data Analysis
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.24%) Agile
3 5 (17.24%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
4 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Economics
4 4 (13.79%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
4 4 (13.79%) Numerical Analysis
4 4 (13.79%) Physics
4 4 (13.79%) Quantitative Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.34%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) C#
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) C++
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 8 (27.59%) VB.NET
4 7 (24.14%) Java
5 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
6 4 (13.79%) Perl
6 4 (13.79%) VB
7 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
8 2 (6.90%) MATLAB
9 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
9 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.45%) CFA
3 1 (3.45%) ISEB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MBA
3 1 (3.45%) Postgraduate
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) PMO
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Citrix
2 1 (3.45%) Google