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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 155 141
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +111
Permanent jobs citing VBA 5 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.19% 0.070% 0.094%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,500 £47,500 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £50,000 £24,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +104.08% -40.96%
75th Percentile £64,500 £52,500 £25,250
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £48,979 £50,000 £24,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% +104.08% -26.87%

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 536 996 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.32% 34.78% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 460 520 783
10th Percentile £34,363 £38,750 £39,350
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,597 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £73,829 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,125 £83,159
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +1.82%

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
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:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (80.00%) Data Mining
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Coaching
2 4 (80.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) WFM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Facebook
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft