VBA Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 382 467
Rank change year-on-year -61 +85 -47
Contract jobs citing VBA 94 290 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.60% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 1.72% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 222 241
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £654
90th Percentile £813 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 17
10th Percentile - £23.51 £12.57
25th Percentile - £23.95 £14.25
Median hourly rate - £25.24 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year - +55.48% -17.82%
75th Percentile - £27.09 £21.00
90th Percentile - £27.86 £37.87
UK median hourly rate - £25.24 £17.87
% change year-on-year - +41.25% -9.54%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VBA in England

VBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBA in England.

Daily rate trend for VBA in England

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in England

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBA in England.

Hourly rate trend for VBA in England

VBA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -35 73 £460 -14.81% 82
South East +3 8 £340 -20.00% 15
Midlands +27 6 £518 +38.00% 13
West Midlands +27 5 £525 - 11
North of England +23 5 £413 - 7
Yorkshire +17 4 £450 -4.26% 1
North West +13 1 £375 -6.25% 5
East Midlands +12 1 £200 -46.67% 2
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (10.64%) IIS
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 68 (72.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.57%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.26%) CANalyzer
5 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (1.06%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.13%) Endur
2 2 (2.13%) ION MarketView
2 2 (2.13%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (1.06%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.06%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.06%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.96%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.19%) AWS
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.13%) Azure
3 2 (2.13%) GCP
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.13%) Serverless
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.06%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (1.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) Internet
2 4 (4.26%) Ethernet
2 4 (4.26%) FlexRay
3 2 (2.13%) Firewall
4 1 (1.06%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.72%) SQL Server
2 20 (21.28%) Oracle Database
3 14 (14.89%) Power BI
4 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.19%) MS Access
6 2 (2.13%) Big Data
6 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.13%) Looker
6 2 (2.13%) Metadata
6 2 (2.13%) Power Query
6 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.06%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.06%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Visual Studio
2 5 (5.32%) Git
3 4 (4.26%) CANoe
4 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 39 (41.49%) Finance
2 33 (35.11%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.15%) Front Office
4 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.70%) Banking
6 9 (9.57%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.32%) Electronics
7 5 (5.32%) Retail
8 4 (4.26%) Automotive
8 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.19%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.19%) Publishing
10 2 (2.13%) Back Office
10 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.06%) Local Government
11 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (44.68%) Developer
2 29 (30.85%) Analyst
3 23 (24.47%) C# Developer
4 15 (15.96%) .NET Developer
5 11 (11.70%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (9.57%) C# WCF Developer
6 9 (9.57%) C# WPF Developer
6 9 (9.57%) WCF Developer
6 9 (9.57%) WPF Developer
7 8 (8.51%) VBA Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior
8 6 (6.38%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Qualitative Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Quantitative Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Integration Manager
10 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.26%) RAD Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (44.68%) .NET
2 26 (27.66%) .NET Framework
3 11 (11.70%) WinForms
4 10 (10.64%) WPF
5 9 (9.57%) WCF
6 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.13%) ActiveX
7 2 (2.13%) Kafka
7 2 (2.13%) XML
7 2 (2.13%) XSLT
8 1 (1.06%) HTML
8 1 (1.06%) Middleware
8 1 (1.06%) React
8 1 (1.06%) Spring
8 1 (1.06%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.45%) Equities
2 7 (7.45%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.32%) Derivative
3 5 (5.32%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.26%) Infotainment
5 3 (3.19%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.19%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.13%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.13%) NHS
6 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.60%) Windows
2 5 (5.32%) Unix
3 4 (4.26%) Linux
4 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.98%) Data Analysis
2 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (15.96%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (12.77%) Computer Science
6 11 (11.70%) Agile
7 9 (9.57%) DevOps
8 8 (8.51%) Analytics
9 7 (7.45%) ITIL
9 7 (7.45%) OO
10 6 (6.38%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.38%) Economics
10 6 (6.38%) OOP
10 6 (6.38%) RAD
10 6 (6.38%) Roadmaps
10 6 (6.38%) Thought Leadership
10 6 (6.38%) Web Application Development
10 6 (6.38%) Workflow
11 5 (5.32%) Mathematics
11 5 (5.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 61 (64.89%) SQL
2 44 (46.81%) C#
3 29 (30.85%) Python
4 24 (25.53%) VB.NET
5 23 (24.47%) VB
6 20 (21.28%) PL/SQL
7 18 (19.15%) T-SQL
8 16 (17.02%) C++
9 12 (12.77%) Java
10 6 (6.38%) MATLAB
11 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
12 4 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (4.26%) Perl
12 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
14 1 (1.06%) R
14 1 (1.06%) VC++
14 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.32%) CFA
3 5 (5.32%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) MBA
6 2 (2.13%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.21%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.19%) Basel III
3 3 (3.19%) PMO
4 2 (2.13%) COREP
4 2 (2.13%) FINREP
5 1 (1.06%) Basel II
5 1 (1.06%) GDPR
5 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 28 (29.79%) Oracle
2 15 (15.96%) Citrix
3 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.57%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.13%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.13%) Reuters
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.13%) Trayport
6 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.06%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Kepware
6 1 (1.06%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.06%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) Siemens
6 1 (1.06%) Sybase
6 1 (1.06%) Wonderware