VBA Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 109 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +5
Permanent jobs citing VBA 5 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.20% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 0.52% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,511 £42,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £45,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.17% +73.08% -
75th Percentile £65,640 £47,500 £34,250
90th Percentile - - £39,200
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £48,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% +14.71% +46.55%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

VBA falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 374 386 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.25% 28.61% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 304 284 683
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,228 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,875 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VBA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VBA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VBA
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VBA

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (60.00%) PowerApps
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Budget Management
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
1 3 (60.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 3 (60.00%) Digital Strategy
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
1 3 (60.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (40.00%) Batch Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Blue Prism
2 2 (40.00%) Pega