VBA Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 77 99
Rank change year-on-year -55 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing VBA 11 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.32% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 0.96% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £358 - £215
25th Percentile £363 £406 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £413 £275
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +50.00% -41.49%
75th Percentile £442 £419 £313
90th Percentile £447 - £335
England median daily rate £408 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.50% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 666 311 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.95% 33.48% 25.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 217 311
10th Percentile £362 £328 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £29.38 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.62 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.28 £62.88
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

VBA job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VBA
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VBA

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in Yorkshire

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VBA

VBA
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 11 £438 -
West Yorkshire -22 1 £780 +89.09% 2
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) BIG-IP
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Power BI
1 8 (72.73%) Power Query
1 8 (72.73%) PowerPivot
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Banking
2 9 (81.82%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Strategy Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Analytics
1 9 (81.82%) Data Modelling
1 9 (81.82%) Risk Analytics
1 9 (81.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (72.73%) Actionable Insight
2 8 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (72.73%) Dashboard Development
2 8 (72.73%) Data Analysis
2 8 (72.73%) Data Extraction
2 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
2 8 (72.73%) Decision-Making
2 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (72.73%) Risk Analysis
2 8 (72.73%) Strategic Planning
2 8 (72.73%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) API Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) F5
2 2 (18.18%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Teradata