VBA Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing VBA 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.80% 0.13% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.20% 0.60% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £28,625 - -
25th Percentile £32,188 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £35,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -
75th Percentile £44,688 - -
90th Percentile £47,875 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £38,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.50% - +36.05%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 61 168 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 9.81% 22.34% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 39 112 122
10th Percentile - - £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £55,438
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,900
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

VBA job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

VBA
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Salary histogram for VBA in Staffordshire

VBA
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 2025. 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
Uttoxeter - 4 £50,000 - 2
Stafford - 3 - -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £27,500 - 4
VBA
West Midlands

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) PHP Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) VBA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Symantec