Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VBA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VBA over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 618 623
Rank change year-on-year -39 +5 -64
Permanent jobs citing VBA 264 365 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.37% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 0.87% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 178 195 430
10th Percentile £28,950 £32,200 £29,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,375 £36,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -2.44%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBA.

Salary trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 245 £50,000 -3.85% 149
UK excluding London -89 152 £45,000 +5.88% 68
London +120 106 £65,000 -5.55% 83
Work from Home +59 102 £48,750 -2.50% 50
North of England +49 38 £38,750 +5.40% 12
South East -43 32 £45,000 +5.88% 25
Yorkshire +79 29 £37,500 +25.00% 5
East of England -5 28 £45,000 -5.26% 7
South West -12 25 £50,000 +14.29% 7
Midlands -31 16 £41,492 -11.72% 12
East Midlands -10 10 £41,492 +27.67% 1
North West +7 9 £47,500 +8.57% 6
Scotland -67 7 £32,705 -23.41% 5
Wales -5 6 £30,000 -25.00% 3
West Midlands -21 6 £42,500 -15.00% 11

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 7 (2.65%) SAS
1 7 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.89%) Apache
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.14%) Confluence
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Documentum
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 144 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.92%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.79%) SPSS
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Shopify
2 6 (2.27%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.27%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.38%) Endur
5 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.38%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.17%) Power Platform
2 33 (12.50%) Azure
3 20 (7.58%) AWS
4 10 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.65%) Serverless
6 7 (2.65%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.52%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.52%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.14%) GCP
9 3 (1.14%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Network Security
2 4 (1.52%) Intranet
2 4 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.38%) LAN
3 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.17%) Power BI
2 47 (17.80%) SQL Server
3 29 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (10.61%) Tableau
5 17 (6.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (5.68%) MS Access
6 15 (5.68%) Power Query
7 13 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (3.41%) Oracle BI EE
9 8 (3.03%) PowerPivot
10 6 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.89%) Flink
11 5 (1.89%) OLAP
11 5 (1.89%) QlikView
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.14%) Big Data
12 3 (1.14%) Metadata
12 3 (1.14%) MySQL
12 3 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Git
1 11 (4.17%) Visual Studio
2 8 (3.03%) JIRA
3 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 93 (35.23%) Finance
2 70 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 36 (13.64%) Retail
5 22 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.79%) Banking
7 10 (3.79%) Marketing
8 9 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.27%) Law
10 6 (2.27%) Legal
10 6 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.89%) Back Office
11 5 (1.89%) Front Office
11 5 (1.89%) Military
12 3 (1.14%) Billing
12 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Automotive
13 2 (0.76%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 104 (39.39%) Analyst
2 50 (18.94%) Developer
3 37 (14.02%) Senior
4 27 (10.23%) Data Analyst
5 19 (7.20%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (5.68%) Lead
7 14 (5.30%) .NET Developer
8 13 (4.92%) Applications Support
9 11 (4.17%) Applications Developer
9 11 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
10 10 (3.79%) Pricing Analyst
11 9 (3.41%) Commercial Analyst
11 9 (3.41%) Commercial Data Analyst
11 9 (3.41%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.03%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.65%) Applications Support Analyst
13 7 (2.65%) Business Analyst
13 7 (2.65%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (2.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.29%) .NET
2 33 (12.50%) HTML
3 22 (8.33%) CSS
4 14 (5.30%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.92%) .NET Framework
5 13 (4.92%) ASP.NET
5 13 (4.92%) XML
6 11 (4.17%) React
7 9 (3.41%) JSON
7 9 (3.41%) Web Services
8 5 (1.89%) Kafka
9 4 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (1.52%) Blazor
9 4 (1.52%) jQuery
9 4 (1.52%) Node.js
9 4 (1.52%) RESTful
10 3 (1.14%) Django
10 3 (1.14%) Pandas
10 3 (1.14%) pytest
10 3 (1.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.30%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.79%) EPoS
2 10 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.03%) Equities
4 8 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.27%) Derivative
6 6 (2.27%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.89%) FMCG
7 5 (1.89%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.52%) CCTV
8 4 (1.52%) PMI
8 4 (1.52%) SCADA
9 3 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.14%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.14%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.14%) Social Media
10 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.41%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.79%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (18.56%) Analytics
4 46 (17.42%) Mathematics
4 46 (17.42%) Visualisation
5 44 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 37 (14.02%) Agile
7 35 (13.26%) Computer Science
8 31 (11.74%) Data Visualisation
9 29 (10.98%) Project Management
10 24 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (8.33%) ETL
12 21 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (7.95%) Statistics
13 19 (7.20%) Decision-Making
14 18 (6.82%) DevOps
15 17 (6.44%) Dashboard Development
16 16 (6.06%) Data Science
16 16 (6.06%) ERP
16 16 (6.06%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 188 (71.21%) SQL
2 98 (37.12%) Python
3 43 (16.29%) C#
4 36 (13.64%) T-SQL
5 34 (12.88%) JavaScript
6 29 (10.98%) R
7 25 (9.47%) VB.NET
8 23 (8.71%) VB
9 17 (6.44%) MATLAB
10 14 (5.30%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.17%) C
12 10 (3.79%) Java
13 6 (2.27%) PHP
13 6 (2.27%) VBScript
14 4 (1.52%) C++
14 4 (1.52%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (1.52%) VB6
15 3 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.38%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 71 (26.89%) Degree
2 20 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.55%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.27%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.52%) HND
9 3 (1.14%) CFA
9 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.76%) PMP
11 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.76%) QA
3 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.52%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.27%) Control-M
2 5 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.33%) Oracle
3 10 (3.79%) SAP
4 7 (2.65%) Sage
5 6 (2.27%) Databricks
6 5 (1.89%) Cognos
7 4 (1.52%) Avaya
7 4 (1.52%) Citrix
7 4 (1.52%) Google
7 4 (1.52%) SIMUL8
8 3 (1.14%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.14%) UiPath
9 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.76%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.76%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.76%) IBM
10 1 (0.38%) Adobe
10 1 (0.38%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.38%) Salesforce