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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 526 521
Rank change year-on-year -90 -5 +96
Permanent jobs citing VBA 127 114 251
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.92% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 99 68 116
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,525 £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 £81,250 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 16,748 12,366 21,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.31% 28.20% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,262 8,253 15,490
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -23 62 £80,000 +23.08% 22
Midlands -16 16 £31,000 -31.11% 6
South East -34 15 £57,500 +17.95% 4
North of England -42 15 £45,000 +83.67% 7
East Midlands -9 12 £31,000 - 4
South West -90 11 £52,500 +4.48%
North West -15 9 £45,000 +83.67% 2
East of England -36 8 £45,000 +63.64% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £28,000 - 5
West Midlands -32 4 - - 2
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 21 (16.54%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.45%) IIS
3 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.57%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.57%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.79%) Appian
6 1 (0.79%) MTS
Applications
1 99 (77.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (18.11%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (10.24%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.36%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.57%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.57%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.57%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.94%) Power Platform
2 39 (30.71%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (18.11%) PowerApps
4 16 (12.60%) Power Automate
5 15 (11.81%) Azure
6 7 (5.51%) AWS
7 6 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.02%) TCP/IP
2 12 (9.45%) DHCP
2 12 (9.45%) DNS
2 12 (9.45%) Firewall
2 12 (9.45%) VLAN
3 2 (1.57%) Intranet
3 2 (1.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (36.22%) Power BI
2 27 (21.26%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.24%) Power Query
3 13 (10.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (4.72%) Big Data
4 6 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.15%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (2.36%) MySQL
6 3 (2.36%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Git
2 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 61 (48.03%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.20%) Finance
3 17 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.02%) Retail
5 13 (10.24%) Front Office
6 11 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (7.87%) Marketing
8 9 (7.09%) Banking
8 9 (7.09%) Legal
9 8 (6.30%) Law
10 6 (4.72%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.79%) Back Office
13 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (32.28%) Developer
2 35 (27.56%) Analyst
3 18 (14.17%) Data Analyst
4 15 (11.81%) IT Support
5 14 (11.02%) Senior
6 12 (9.45%) IT Support Technician
6 12 (9.45%) IT Technician
6 12 (9.45%) RAD Developer
6 12 (9.45%) Support Technician
7 10 (7.87%) Consultant
7 10 (7.87%) Junior
8 9 (7.09%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (6.30%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Business Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Junior Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Data Manager
11 6 (4.72%) Marketing Analyst
11 6 (4.72%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 6 (4.72%) Marketing Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) .NET
1 15 (11.81%) CSS
1 15 (11.81%) HTML
2 11 (8.66%) ASP.NET
3 9 (7.09%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.51%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (5.51%) Terraform
5 6 (4.72%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.72%) REST
6 5 (3.94%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.36%) JSON
8 2 (1.57%) Blazor
8 2 (1.57%) Classic ASP
8 2 (1.57%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.57%) NumPy
8 2 (1.57%) Pandas
8 2 (1.57%) PySpark
8 2 (1.57%) Seaborn
8 2 (1.57%) XSLT
9 1 (0.79%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.17%) Fixed Income
2 15 (11.81%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.66%) Hedge funds
3 11 (8.66%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.51%) Derivative
5 6 (4.72%) Pricing Data
6 5 (3.94%) Credit Risk
6 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.94%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.36%) Equities
8 3 (2.36%) Social Media
8 3 (2.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.79%) Eurex
10 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.47%) Windows
2 24 (18.90%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.09%) Linux
4 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (16.54%) Collaborative Working
3 21 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (16.54%) Mentoring
4 19 (14.96%) Decision-Making
4 19 (14.96%) Process Improvement
5 18 (14.17%) Analytics
6 17 (13.39%) Data Analysis
6 17 (13.39%) Requirements Gathering
7 15 (11.81%) Agile
8 14 (11.02%) Data Science
9 13 (10.24%) DevOps
10 12 (9.45%) RAD
11 11 (8.66%) Time Management
12 10 (7.87%) Project Delivery
13 9 (7.09%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (7.09%) ERP
13 9 (7.09%) Server Patching
13 9 (7.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 79 (62.20%) SQL
2 42 (33.07%) Python
3 34 (26.77%) C#
4 15 (11.81%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.02%) VBScript
6 12 (9.45%) Java
7 10 (7.87%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.30%) T-SQL
9 7 (5.51%) Bash
9 7 (5.51%) Rust
10 6 (4.72%) R
11 5 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.36%) PHP
12 3 (2.36%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.57%) VB
14 1 (0.79%) C++
14 1 (0.79%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 21 (16.54%) Degree
2 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.09%) SLA
2 6 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (14.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.45%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.51%) Docker
4 6 (4.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Ansible
1 7 (5.51%) Grafana
1 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.51%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (42.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.51%) iManage
2 7 (5.51%) Splunk
3 5 (3.94%) Databricks
3 5 (3.94%) SAP
4 4 (3.15%) Adobe
4 4 (3.15%) SYSPRO
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle
6 2 (1.57%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco
6 2 (1.57%) Infor
6 2 (1.57%) 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