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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 645 595 577
Rank change year-on-year -50 -18 -30
Permanent jobs citing VBA 252 422 855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.93% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 182 231 410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,350 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +8.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £77,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,201 £40,000
% change year-on-year +11.94% +0.50% -

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 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -11 229 £47,500 -9.52% 135
UK excluding London -78 158 £45,000 +11.94% 57
Work from Home +50 90 £47,500 -5.00% 41
London +66 88 £67,500 -1.92% 80
North of England +40 36 £40,000 +11.47% 13
South East -24 32 £45,000 +5.88% 14
East of England +12 29 £45,000 -5.26% 5
Yorkshire +82 27 £37,500 +25.00% 5
South West +11 27 £38,000 -16.94% 1
Midlands -18 17 £41,492 -34.91% 18
East Midlands -7 11 £41,492 - 3
Scotland -71 11 £58,141 +36.16% 5
North West +12 9 £47,500 +14.46% 7
Wales +3 6 £30,000 -25.00%
West Midlands -7 6 £42,500 -33.33% 15

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 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.38%) Confluence
3 5 (1.98%) Apache
3 5 (1.98%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Documentum
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 141 (55.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.16%) Spreadsheet
4 11 (4.37%) SPSS
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.57%) Shopify
2 6 (2.38%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.38%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.19%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.40%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.92%) Azure
3 21 (8.33%) AWS
4 9 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.57%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.78%) Serverless
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.98%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.59%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.59%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.19%) GCP
10 2 (0.79%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Network Security
2 4 (1.59%) Intranet
2 4 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.40%) LAN
3 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (27.78%) Power BI
2 42 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 32 (12.70%) Tableau
4 24 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.35%) MS Access
6 14 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (5.16%) Oracle BI EE
8 11 (4.37%) Power Query
9 10 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.38%) MySQL
10 6 (2.38%) PowerPivot
10 6 (2.38%) QlikView
10 6 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.98%) Flink
11 5 (1.98%) OLAP
11 5 (1.98%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.56%) Git
2 11 (4.37%) JIRA
2 11 (4.37%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) NUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 91 (36.11%) Finance
2 75 (29.76%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (24.21%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.87%) Retail
5 21 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.37%) Banking
8 10 (3.97%) Marketing
9 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.38%) Front Office
10 6 (2.38%) Law
10 6 (2.38%) Legal
11 5 (1.98%) Back Office
11 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.98%) Military
12 3 (1.19%) Billing
12 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Automotive
13 2 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 98 (38.89%) Analyst
2 48 (19.05%) Developer
3 36 (14.29%) Senior
4 28 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.75%) Lead
6 14 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 14 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (4.37%) Commercial Analyst
7 11 (4.37%) Commercial Data Analyst
7 11 (4.37%) Systems Analyst
8 10 (3.97%) Applications Developer
9 9 (3.57%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Customer Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.78%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (2.78%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.38%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.67%) .NET
2 38 (15.08%) HTML
3 25 (9.92%) CSS
4 17 (6.75%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.56%) React
5 14 (5.56%) XML
6 13 (5.16%) .NET Framework
6 13 (5.16%) ASP.NET
7 9 (3.57%) JSON
7 9 (3.57%) Web Services
8 7 (2.78%) Node.js
8 7 (2.78%) RESTful
9 5 (1.98%) Blazor
9 5 (1.98%) Kafka
10 4 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (1.59%) Django
10 4 (1.59%) jQuery
11 3 (1.19%) Express.js
11 3 (1.19%) WCF
11 3 (1.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.97%) EPoS
1 10 (3.97%) Onboarding
1 10 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.17%) Fixed Income
3 7 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.38%) Derivative
4 6 (2.38%) Equities
4 6 (2.38%) Market Risk
4 6 (2.38%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.98%) FMCG
6 4 (1.59%) CCTV
6 4 (1.59%) PMI
6 4 (1.59%) SCADA
7 3 (1.19%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.19%) Social Media
8 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.38%) Windows
2 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.38%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (20.24%) Analytics
4 42 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 40 (15.87%) Agile
5 40 (15.87%) Visualisation
6 38 (15.08%) Mathematics
7 30 (11.90%) Computer Science
8 27 (10.71%) Project Management
9 26 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
11 20 (7.94%) ETL
12 19 (7.54%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (7.54%) Decision-Making
12 19 (7.54%) Machine Learning
12 19 (7.54%) Statistics
13 16 (6.35%) Dashboard Development
13 16 (6.35%) Mentoring
14 15 (5.95%) DevOps
14 15 (5.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 170 (67.46%) SQL
2 87 (34.52%) Python
3 46 (18.25%) C#
4 36 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.30%) T-SQL
6 26 (10.32%) R
7 24 (9.52%) VB
7 24 (9.52%) VB.NET
8 17 (6.75%) MATLAB
9 11 (4.37%) C
9 11 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.97%) Java
11 8 (3.17%) PHP
12 6 (2.38%) VBScript
13 5 (1.98%) C++
14 4 (1.59%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (1.59%) VB6
15 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.40%) F#
15 1 (0.40%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 64 (25.40%) Degree
2 20 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.38%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.59%) CFA
7 4 (1.59%) HND
8 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.79%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.98%) QA
3 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.59%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Terraform
3 3 (1.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 67 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.11%) Oracle
3 10 (3.97%) SAP
4 7 (2.78%) Sage
5 6 (2.38%) Google
6 5 (1.98%) Cognos
7 4 (1.59%) Avaya
7 4 (1.59%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.59%) Citrix
7 4 (1.59%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.59%) SIMUL8
8 3 (1.19%) Databricks
8 3 (1.19%) UiPath
9 2 (0.79%) Advent
9 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.79%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.79%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.79%) FactSet
9 2 (0.79%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Telerik