VBA Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 145 155
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +47
Permanent jobs citing VBA 10 22 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.48% 0.81% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.73% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £66,250 - £52,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £59,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.36%
75th Percentile £95,500 £82,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £104,500 - £106,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +36.36%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 739 1,275 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.12% 47.03% 50.73%
Number of salaries quoted 602 939 1,316
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VBA job vacancy trend in the City of London

VBA
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in the City of London

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Legal
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Qualitative Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) XSLT
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Batch Scripting
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Collateral Management
4 2 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) VC++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) EMIR
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Blue Prism
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Pega
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) SAP