VBA Contracts

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 417 505
Rank change year-on-year -51 +88 -57
Contract jobs citing VBA 117 297 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.89% 1.57% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 227 275
10th Percentile £309 £363 £339
25th Percentile £363 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -3.65% +9.56%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £669
90th Percentile £732 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £418 £450
% change year-on-year +11.48% -7.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 18
10th Percentile - £23.51 £12.62
25th Percentile - £23.95 £14.25
Median hourly rate - £25.24 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - +74.03% -25.64%
75th Percentile - £27.09 £20.63
90th Percentile - £27.86 £37.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.24 £14.50
% change year-on-year - +74.03% -25.64%

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 13,173 18,905 31,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 34.04% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,279 13,615 23,014
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £765 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 437 496
10th Percentile £31.55 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £79.19 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 12 Contract 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 12 June 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
England -59 111 £450 -5.26% 138
London -33 87 £400 -21.57% 75
Work from Home +5 29 £413 +3.13% 53
UK excluding London -14 25 £466 +11.48% 61
Midlands +18 9 £525 +147.06% 15
South East +6 9 £411 -3.29% 14
West Midlands +20 8 £526 +161.12% 7
North of England +13 5 £413 - 14
Yorkshire +17 4 £450 -4.26% 3
Scotland +41 2 £425 - 2
North West +8 1 £375 -6.25% 10
East Midlands +6 1 £200 -46.67% 8

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 14 (11.97%) IIS
2 5 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 81 (69.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (5.98%) CANalyzer
4 4 (3.42%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.85%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Aladdin
1 4 (3.42%) Endur
2 2 (1.71%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.71%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (0.85%) Academy Housing
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.85%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.85%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.85%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.85%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.09%) Power Platform
2 5 (4.27%) AWS
2 5 (4.27%) Azure
3 4 (3.42%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (3.42%) Serverless
4 3 (2.56%) GCP
5 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.71%) IaaS
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.71%) PaaS
5 2 (1.71%) SaaS
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.85%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (0.85%) OCI
6 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) Internet
2 7 (5.98%) Ethernet
2 7 (5.98%) FlexRay
3 4 (3.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.21%) SQL Server
2 30 (25.64%) Oracle Database
3 19 (16.24%) Power BI
4 4 (3.42%) MS Access
4 4 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.56%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.56%) KNIME
5 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.56%) Tableau
6 2 (1.71%) Big Data
6 2 (1.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.71%) Looker
6 2 (1.71%) Metadata
6 2 (1.71%) Power Query
6 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) CANoe
1 7 (5.98%) Git
2 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.71%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.71%) Selenium
4 2 (1.71%) Subversion
4 2 (1.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.71%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (42.74%) Finance
2 39 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.24%) Front Office
4 17 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.40%) Banking
6 9 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.84%) Electronics
8 7 (5.98%) Automotive
8 7 (5.98%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.27%) Publishing
9 5 (4.27%) Retail
10 4 (3.42%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.71%) Back Office
12 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (45.30%) Developer
2 37 (31.62%) Analyst
3 30 (25.64%) C# Developer
4 18 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 14 (11.97%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (11.11%) C# WCF Developer
6 13 (11.11%) C# WPF Developer
6 13 (11.11%) WCF Developer
6 13 (11.11%) WPF Developer
7 10 (8.55%) Senior
7 10 (8.55%) VBA Developer
8 9 (7.69%) Data Analyst
9 7 (5.98%) Integration Manager
9 7 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.98%) Software Manager
10 6 (5.13%) Technical Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) RAD Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Pricing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (47.01%) .NET
2 36 (30.77%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.82%) WinForms
4 14 (11.97%) WPF
5 13 (11.11%) WCF
6 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.42%) Kafka
8 2 (1.71%) ActiveX
8 2 (1.71%) HTML
8 2 (1.71%) XML
8 2 (1.71%) XSLT
9 1 (0.85%) CSS
9 1 (0.85%) Middleware
9 1 (0.85%) React
9 1 (0.85%) Spring
9 1 (0.85%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.09%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.98%) Equities
2 7 (5.98%) Infotainment
3 6 (5.13%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.13%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.27%) Derivative
4 5 (4.27%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.42%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.91%) Windows
2 5 (4.27%) Unix
3 4 (3.42%) Linux
4 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.77%) Data Analysis
2 23 (19.66%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (16.24%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (12.82%) Agile
4 15 (12.82%) Computer Science
4 15 (12.82%) DevOps
4 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (11.11%) Analytics
5 13 (11.11%) OO
6 12 (10.26%) OOP
7 10 (8.55%) Workflow
8 9 (7.69%) Roadmaps
8 9 (7.69%) Web Application Development
9 8 (6.84%) Decision-Making
9 8 (6.84%) Prototyping
10 7 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (5.98%) ITIL
10 7 (5.98%) Power Management
10 7 (5.98%) RAD
10 7 (5.98%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 76 (64.96%) SQL
2 55 (47.01%) C#
3 37 (31.62%) Python
4 35 (29.91%) VB
5 28 (23.93%) PL/SQL
6 24 (20.51%) VB.NET
7 21 (17.95%) T-SQL
8 18 (15.38%) C++
9 14 (11.97%) Java
10 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
11 7 (5.98%) MATLAB
12 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
13 5 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (3.42%) Perl
15 3 (2.56%) R
16 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
16 2 (1.71%) VBScript
17 1 (0.85%) VC++
17 1 (0.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (26.50%) Degree
2 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.13%) CFA
4 5 (4.27%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.42%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (3.42%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.56%) CISA
6 3 (2.56%) CRISC
6 3 (2.56%) MBA
6 3 (2.56%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.71%) ISEB
7 2 (1.71%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.37%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.56%) Basel III
3 3 (2.56%) PMO
4 2 (1.71%) COREP
4 2 (1.71%) FINREP
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) Basel II
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Functional Safety
2 2 (1.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 39 (33.33%) Oracle
2 19 (16.24%) Citrix
3 16 (13.68%) Microsoft
4 11 (9.40%) Bloomberg
5 4 (3.42%) OpenLink
5 4 (3.42%) Trayport
6 2 (1.71%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.71%) Reuters
6 2 (1.71%) SAP
6 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.85%) Capita
7 1 (0.85%) Civica
7 1 (0.85%) Kepware
7 1 (0.85%) NEC
7 1 (0.85%) Northgate
7 1 (0.85%) Oneserve
7 1 (0.85%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.85%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.85%) Siemens