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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 607 578
Rank change year-on-year -45 -29 -36
Permanent jobs citing VBA 253 416 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.92% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 182 227 415
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,375 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £65,125
90th Percentile £81,125 £76,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% +3.75% -0.87%

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 33,263 45,047 83,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.76% 43.30% 53.86%
Number of salaries quoted 25,029 28,721 44,136
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% +7.50%

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 1 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 1 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 -23 230 £50,000 -4.76% 152
UK excluding London -88 159 £45,000 +8.43% 49
Work from Home +43 92 £47,500 -5.00% 47
London +66 88 £67,500 -1.92% 103
North of England +29 36 £40,000 +11.47% 11
South East -44 32 £45,000 +5.88% 9
East of England +12 29 £45,000 -5.26% 6
South West -5 28 £42,750 -6.56% 1
Yorkshire +78 27 £37,500 +25.00% 4
Midlands -19 17 £41,492 -17.02% 15
East Midlands -5 11 £41,492 - 2
Scotland -74 11 £58,141 +36.16% 4
North West +7 9 £47,500 +13.10% 6
Wales -1 6 £30,000 -25.00% 2
West Midlands -8 6 £42,500 -15.00% 13

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 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.37%) Confluence
3 5 (1.98%) Apache
3 5 (1.98%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (1.58%) 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 (55.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (12.25%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.14%) Spreadsheet
4 11 (4.35%) SPSS
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.56%) Shopify
2 6 (2.37%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.37%) 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 71 (28.06%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.88%) Azure
3 21 (8.30%) AWS
4 9 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.56%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.77%) 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 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.58%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.58%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.58%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.19%) GCP
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Network Security
2 4 (1.58%) Intranet
2 4 (1.58%) 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 71 (28.06%) Power BI
2 42 (16.60%) SQL Server
3 33 (13.04%) Tableau
4 24 (9.49%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.32%) MS Access
6 14 (5.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (5.14%) Oracle BI EE
8 12 (4.74%) Power Query
9 10 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.37%) MySQL
10 6 (2.37%) PowerPivot
10 6 (2.37%) QlikView
10 6 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.98%) Flink
11 5 (1.98%) OLAP
11 5 (1.98%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.19%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.53%) Git
2 11 (4.35%) JIRA
2 11 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) NUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 91 (35.97%) Finance
2 75 (29.64%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (24.90%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.81%) Retail
5 21 (8.30%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.74%) Banking
8 11 (4.35%) Marketing
9 8 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.37%) Front Office
10 6 (2.37%) Law
10 6 (2.37%) 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%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Automotive
13 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 98 (38.74%) Analyst
2 48 (18.97%) Developer
3 37 (14.62%) Senior
4 28 (11.07%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.72%) Lead
6 14 (5.53%) .NET Developer
6 14 (5.53%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (4.35%) Commercial Analyst
7 11 (4.35%) Commercial Data Analyst
7 11 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
8 10 (3.95%) Applications Developer
9 9 (3.56%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (3.16%) Customer Analyst
10 8 (3.16%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.77%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.77%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (2.77%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.37%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.37%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.60%) .NET
2 38 (15.02%) HTML
3 25 (9.88%) CSS
4 17 (6.72%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.53%) React
5 14 (5.53%) XML
6 13 (5.14%) .NET Framework
6 13 (5.14%) ASP.NET
7 9 (3.56%) JSON
7 9 (3.56%) Web Services
8 7 (2.77%) Node.js
8 7 (2.77%) RESTful
9 5 (1.98%) Blazor
9 5 (1.98%) Kafka
10 4 (1.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (1.58%) Django
10 4 (1.58%) jQuery
11 3 (1.19%) Express.js
11 3 (1.19%) WCF
11 3 (1.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.95%) EPoS
1 10 (3.95%) Onboarding
1 10 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.16%) Fixed Income
3 7 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.77%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.37%) Derivative
4 6 (2.37%) Equities
4 6 (2.37%) Market Risk
4 6 (2.37%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.98%) FMCG
6 4 (1.58%) CCTV
6 4 (1.58%) PMI
6 4 (1.58%) 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 (2.37%) 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 70 (27.67%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (20.16%) Analytics
4 43 (17.00%) Data Analysis
5 41 (16.21%) Visualisation
6 40 (15.81%) Agile
7 38 (15.02%) Mathematics
8 30 (11.86%) Computer Science
9 27 (10.67%) Project Management
10 26 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (9.88%) Data Visualisation
12 20 (7.91%) ETL
13 19 (7.51%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (7.51%) Decision-Making
13 19 (7.51%) Machine Learning
13 19 (7.51%) Statistics
14 16 (6.32%) Dashboard Development
14 16 (6.32%) Mentoring
15 15 (5.93%) DevOps
15 15 (5.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 172 (67.98%) SQL
2 88 (34.78%) Python
3 46 (18.18%) C#
4 36 (14.23%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.25%) T-SQL
6 26 (10.28%) R
7 24 (9.49%) VB
7 24 (9.49%) VB.NET
8 17 (6.72%) MATLAB
9 11 (4.35%) C
9 11 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.95%) Java
11 8 (3.16%) PHP
12 6 (2.37%) VBScript
13 5 (1.98%) C++
14 4 (1.58%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (1.58%) VB6
15 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.40%) F#
16 1 (0.40%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 65 (25.69%) Degree
2 20 (7.91%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.74%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.37%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.58%) CFA
7 4 (1.58%) 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 21 (8.30%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.98%) QA
3 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.58%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.58%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.58%) Terraform
3 3 (1.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 69 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.07%) Oracle
3 10 (3.95%) SAP
4 7 (2.77%) Sage
5 6 (2.37%) Google
6 5 (1.98%) Cognos
7 4 (1.58%) Avaya
7 4 (1.58%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.58%) Citrix
7 4 (1.58%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.58%) 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