VBA Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 166 196
Rank change year-on-year -6 +30 +13
Permanent jobs citing VBA 9 8 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.27% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.95% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £26,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £27,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -38.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,625 £28,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £56,750 - £59,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 764 841 1,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.10% 28.20% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 495 662 1,462
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VBA job vacancy trend in the East of England

VBA
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VBA

VBA
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Essex - 7 £52,500 - 1
Suffolk - 2 - -
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Mining
2 2 (22.22%) PowerPivot
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Commercial Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Portfolio Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Pricing Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (22.22%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) B2B
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 3 (33.33%) Process Management
2 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft