VBA Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 157 210
Rank change year-on-year -17 +53 -2
Permanent jobs citing VBA 9 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.14% 0.37% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 1.03% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £24,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +83.67% -48.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £35,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £43,050 -
North West median annual salary £45,000 £29,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +52.54% -37.89% +8.57%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,060 877 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.77% 36.03% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 839 563 1,401
10th Percentile £40,500 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.02%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

VBA job vacancy trend in Manchester

VBA
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VBA

VBA
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Bolton - 2 £50,000 -
VBA
North West

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (22.22%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Power BI
1 9 (100.00%) Power Query
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 7 (77.78%) Retail
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Manager
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing Manager
3 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Executive
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
3 6 (66.67%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality