VBA Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 522 521
Rank change year-on-year -91 -1 +71
Permanent jobs citing VBA 126 114 250
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.26% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.93% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 100 67 108
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,013 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £42,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% -14.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,625 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £42,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.99% -14.50% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,669 12,234 21,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.14% 28.04% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 8,154 14,868
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VBA job vacancy trend in England

VBA
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA in England over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in England

VBA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the England region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
London -26 65 £80,000 +23.08% 131
Midlands -28 16 £31,000 -31.11% 11
South East -42 15 £57,500 +17.95% 20
North of England -49 14 £45,000 +83.67% 15
East Midlands -17 12 £31,000 - 7
South West -89 11 £52,500 +4.48% 2
North West -18 8 £45,000 +83.67% 10
Yorkshire - 6 £28,000 - 4
East of England -31 5 £45,000 +63.64% 3
West Midlands -26 4 - - 4
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 23 (18.25%) SharePoint
2 13 (10.32%) IIS
3 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.59%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.79%) Appian
6 1 (0.79%) MTS
Applications
1 95 (75.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (18.25%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (10.32%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.38%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.59%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 2 (1.59%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 53 (42.06%) Power Platform
2 39 (30.95%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (19.05%) PowerApps
4 18 (14.29%) Azure
5 17 (13.49%) Power Automate
6 7 (5.56%) AWS
6 7 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.59%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.79%) NetDocuments
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 12 (9.52%) DHCP
2 12 (9.52%) DNS
2 12 (9.52%) Firewall
2 12 (9.52%) VLAN
3 2 (1.59%) Intranet
3 2 (1.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (37.30%) Power BI
2 30 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 15 (11.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (9.52%) Power Query
5 6 (4.76%) Big Data
5 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.17%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (2.38%) MySQL
7 3 (2.38%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 62 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.19%) Finance
3 16 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.32%) Front Office
5 11 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (7.94%) Retail
7 9 (7.14%) Banking
7 9 (7.14%) Legal
7 9 (7.14%) Marketing
8 8 (6.35%) Law
9 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Back Office
12 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 44 (34.92%) Developer
2 33 (26.19%) Analyst
3 19 (15.08%) Data Analyst
4 15 (11.90%) IT Support
5 13 (10.32%) Senior
6 12 (9.52%) IT Support Technician
6 12 (9.52%) IT Technician
6 12 (9.52%) RAD Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Support Technician
7 10 (7.94%) Consultant
7 10 (7.94%) Junior
8 9 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (6.35%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Business Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Junior Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Marketing Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Marketing Analytics Data Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Marketing Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.29%) .NET
1 18 (14.29%) CSS
1 18 (14.29%) HTML
2 13 (10.32%) ASP.NET
3 12 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 9 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 7 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (5.56%) REST
5 7 (5.56%) Terraform
6 6 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.97%) JSON
8 3 (2.38%) Blazor
8 3 (2.38%) Classic ASP
8 3 (2.38%) XML
9 2 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (1.59%) Matplotlib
9 2 (1.59%) Pandas
9 2 (1.59%) PySpark
9 2 (1.59%) Seaborn
9 2 (1.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 16 (12.70%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.73%) Hedge funds
3 11 (8.73%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.56%) Derivative
5 5 (3.97%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.97%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.97%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.38%) Equities
6 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.38%) Social Media
6 3 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.79%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.43%) Windows
2 24 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.14%) Linux
4 6 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (17.46%) Mentoring
4 21 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 20 (15.87%) Decision-Making
6 19 (15.08%) Process Improvement
7 18 (14.29%) Analytics
7 18 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 17 (13.49%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (11.90%) Agile
10 14 (11.11%) Data Science
10 14 (11.11%) DevOps
11 12 (9.52%) RAD
12 11 (8.73%) AI
12 11 (8.73%) Time Management
13 10 (7.94%) Project Delivery
14 9 (7.14%) ERP
14 9 (7.14%) Migration
14 9 (7.14%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 78 (61.90%) SQL
2 39 (30.95%) Python
3 37 (29.37%) C#
4 18 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.90%) VBScript
6 11 (8.73%) Java
7 10 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.35%) T-SQL
9 7 (5.56%) Bash
9 7 (5.56%) Rust
10 6 (4.76%) R
11 5 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.38%) PHP
12 3 (2.38%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.59%) VB
14 1 (0.79%) C++
14 1 (0.79%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 22 (17.46%) Degree
2 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.14%) SLA
3 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.76%) QA
4 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.56%) Docker
4 6 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Ansible
1 7 (5.56%) Grafana
1 7 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) iManage
2 7 (5.56%) Splunk
3 5 (3.97%) Databricks
4 4 (3.17%) Adobe
4 4 (3.17%) SAP
4 4 (3.17%) SYSPRO
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle
6 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.59%) Cisco
6 2 (1.59%) Infor
6 2 (1.59%) Meraki
7 1 (0.79%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.79%) Litera
7 1 (0.79%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.79%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) Snow
7 1 (0.79%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.79%) VMware