VBA Job Trends in London

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 357 410
Rank change year-on-year -15 +53 +79
Permanent jobs citing VBA 36 41 84
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.18% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 0.77% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 19 32 54
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +11.11% -0.97%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,700 £85,000 £99,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -9.52%

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,081 5,356 9,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.10% 41.45% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,567 3,934 7,573
10th Percentile £47,617 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,281 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VBA job vacancy trend in London

VBA
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA in London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in London

VBA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Central London +1 14 £70,000 -6.67% 10
East London - 1 £73,000 -
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) IIS
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.56%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (16.67%) Tableau
3 5 (13.89%) Pentaho
4 3 (8.33%) Power Query
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (33.33%) Legal
4 10 (27.78%) Front Office
5 7 (19.44%) Banking
6 5 (13.89%) Retail
7 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
8 3 (8.33%) Law
9 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 12 (33.33%) Analyst
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
4 6 (16.67%) Consultant
4 6 (16.67%) RAD Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Pentaho Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Consultant
5 5 (13.89%) Software Consultant
6 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Operations Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Qualitative Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Quantitative Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Business Development Consultant
8 1 (2.78%) Credit Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Finance Modeller
8 1 (2.78%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
1 3 (8.33%) CSS
1 3 (8.33%) HTML
1 3 (8.33%) XML
1 3 (8.33%) XSLT
2 2 (5.56%) Matplotlib
2 2 (5.56%) NumPy
2 2 (5.56%) Pandas
2 2 (5.56%) Seaborn
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Fixed Income
2 6 (16.67%) Hedge funds
3 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.56%) Derivative
5 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.78%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (25.00%) ETL
3 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
3 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
3 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
4 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (16.67%) RAD
4 6 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 6 (16.67%) Validation
4 6 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
5 5 (13.89%) Contract Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Integration
5 5 (13.89%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (13.89%) KYC
5 5 (13.89%) Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Software Asset Management
5 5 (13.89%) Software Licensing
5 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Python
2 21 (58.33%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) C#
4 8 (22.22%) VBScript
5 6 (16.67%) Java
5 6 (16.67%) VB
6 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
7 4 (11.11%) C++
8 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
8 3 (8.33%) VC++
9 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) EMIR
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.00%) Oracle
3 5 (13.89%) Adobe
3 5 (13.89%) IBM
3 5 (13.89%) Informatica
3 5 (13.89%) Snow
3 5 (13.89%) Talend
3 5 (13.89%) VMware
4 4 (11.11%) Blue Prism
4 4 (11.11%) Pega
5 3 (8.33%) iManage
6 1 (2.78%) Murex
6 1 (2.78%) SAP