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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 518 491
Rank change year-on-year -122 -27 +107
Permanent jobs citing VBA 121 115 257
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 0.99% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 96 67 93
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,013 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.50% -14.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,125 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £77,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £42,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +34.50% -14.50% -6.54%

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 16,875 11,646 20,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.48% 27.22% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,292 7,680 13,223
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 22 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 22 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 -37 65 £80,000 +14.29% 112
Midlands -32 16 £31,000 - 16
East Midlands -18 12 £31,000 - 5
North of England -69 12 £45,000 +83.67% 23
South West -92 12 £52,500 +13.21% 9
South East -56 11 £57,500 +6.98% 23
Yorkshire - 7 £28,000 - 7
East of England -36 5 £45,000 +63.64% 5
North West -46 5 £45,000 +83.67% 12
West Midlands -48 4 - - 11
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 (19.01%) SharePoint
2 13 (10.74%) IIS
3 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (4.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.83%) Appian
6 1 (0.83%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.83%) MTS
6 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 86 (71.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (19.01%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (9.92%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.48%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.65%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.65%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.83%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.84%) Power Platform
2 36 (29.75%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (19.01%) PowerApps
4 19 (15.70%) Azure
5 18 (14.88%) Power Automate
6 8 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.79%) AWS
8 3 (2.48%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.83%) NetDocuments
10 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.57%) TCP/IP
2 12 (9.92%) DHCP
2 12 (9.92%) DNS
2 12 (9.92%) Firewall
2 12 (9.92%) VLAN
3 2 (1.65%) Intranet
3 2 (1.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (33.88%) Power BI
2 31 (25.62%) SQL Server
3 15 (12.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (7.44%) Power Query
5 6 (4.96%) Big Data
5 6 (4.96%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.48%) MySQL
6 3 (2.48%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.65%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 59 (48.76%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.45%) Finance
3 17 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Front Office
5 10 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (7.44%) Banking
6 9 (7.44%) Law
6 9 (7.44%) Legal
7 8 (6.61%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.79%) Marketing
8 7 (5.79%) Retail
9 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Back Office
11 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (38.84%) Developer
2 34 (28.10%) Analyst
3 20 (16.53%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.40%) IT Support
5 12 (9.92%) IT Support Technician
5 12 (9.92%) IT Technician
5 12 (9.92%) RAD Developer
5 12 (9.92%) Support Technician
6 10 (8.26%) Junior
6 10 (8.26%) Senior
7 9 (7.44%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.61%) Consultant
8 8 (6.61%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Business Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Junior Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (4.96%) Marketing Analyst
10 6 (4.96%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 6 (4.96%) Marketing Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.70%) .NET
1 19 (15.70%) CSS
1 19 (15.70%) HTML
2 14 (11.57%) ASP.NET
3 13 (10.74%) .NET Framework
4 10 (8.26%) .NET Core
5 8 (6.61%) REST
6 7 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.79%) Terraform
7 6 (4.96%) Entity Framework
7 6 (4.96%) JSON
8 5 (4.13%) Blazor
9 4 (3.31%) XML
10 3 (2.48%) Classic ASP
10 3 (2.48%) HTML5
10 3 (2.48%) RESTful
11 2 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
11 2 (1.65%) Matplotlib
11 2 (1.65%) NumPy
11 2 (1.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Fixed Income
2 16 (13.22%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 11 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.79%) Derivative
5 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.96%) Low-Code
6 5 (4.13%) Credit Risk
6 5 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.48%) Equities
8 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.48%) Social Media
8 3 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.65%) Pricing Data
10 1 (0.83%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Windows
2 24 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.61%) Linux
4 6 (4.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.06%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (23.97%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (17.36%) Collaborative Working
3 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (17.36%) Mentoring
4 18 (14.88%) Decision-Making
4 18 (14.88%) Process Improvement
5 17 (14.05%) Analytics
6 16 (13.22%) Data Analysis
6 16 (13.22%) Requirements Gathering
7 15 (12.40%) DevOps
8 14 (11.57%) Agile
9 13 (10.74%) Data Science
10 12 (9.92%) AI
10 12 (9.92%) RAD
11 10 (8.26%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.26%) Time Management
11 10 (8.26%) Workflow
12 9 (7.44%) Server Patching
12 9 (7.44%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 75 (61.98%) SQL
2 38 (31.40%) C#
3 37 (30.58%) Python
4 17 (14.05%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.92%) VBScript
6 11 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.26%) Java
8 8 (6.61%) T-SQL
9 7 (5.79%) Bash
9 7 (5.79%) Rust
10 6 (4.96%) R
11 5 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (4.13%) VB.NET
12 3 (2.48%) PHP
13 2 (1.65%) Delphi
14 1 (0.83%) C++
14 1 (0.83%) Tcl
14 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Degree
2 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.44%) SLA
2 7 (5.79%) QA
3 6 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (15.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.92%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.79%) Docker
4 6 (4.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (5.79%) Ansible
1 7 (5.79%) Grafana
1 7 (5.79%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.79%) iManage
2 7 (5.79%) Splunk
3 5 (4.13%) Databricks
4 3 (2.48%) Adobe
5 2 (1.65%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.65%) Cisco
5 2 (1.65%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.65%) Infor
5 2 (1.65%) Meraki
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle
5 2 (1.65%) SAP
5 2 (1.65%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.83%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.83%) Foundry
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.83%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.83%) Pega
6 1 (0.83%) Sybase
6 1 (0.83%) Tradeweb