VBA Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 445 476
Rank change year-on-year -194 +31 +9
Permanent jobs citing VBA 45 91 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 1.24% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40 50 40
10th Percentile £29,000 £24,875 £30,700
25th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +2.63%
75th Percentile £55,625 £57,188 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £64,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £42,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +34.50% -22.27% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,978 7,359 13,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.83% 21.43% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,912 4,648 7,730
10th Percentile £36,500 £30,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.10% -0.77%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VBA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK excluding London

VBA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Midlands -38 18 £31,000 - 11
East Midlands -20 14 £31,000 - 2
South West -90 11 £52,500 +5.00% 4
North of England -75 8 £45,000 +30.43% 7
Yorkshire -30 6 £36,500 -18.89%
South East -59 6 £57,500 +9.52% 8
West Midlands -40 4 £70,000 - 9
East of England -48 2 £45,000 +63.64% 2
North West -48 2 £45,000 +83.67% 4
VBA
UK

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.44%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.22%) IIS
4 1 (2.22%) SAS
4 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (8.89%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (4.44%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (2.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (4.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (2.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 19 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (26.67%) PowerApps
4 5 (11.11%) Azure
4 5 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) DHCP
1 12 (26.67%) DNS
1 12 (26.67%) Firewall
1 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
1 12 (26.67%) VLAN
2 2 (4.44%) Intranet
2 2 (4.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.33%) Power Query
4 5 (11.11%) Big Data
5 3 (6.67%) PowerPivot
6 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.44%) MS Access
7 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Manufacturing
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Finance
5 5 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Analyst
1 13 (28.89%) IT Support
2 12 (26.67%) IT Support Technician
2 12 (26.67%) IT Technician
2 12 (26.67%) Support Technician
3 10 (22.22%) Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Data Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) Consultant
5 5 (11.11%) Junior
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Junior Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) .NET
1 4 (8.89%) .NET Framework
1 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
2 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (4.44%) Blazor
2 2 (4.44%) CSS
2 2 (4.44%) Entity Framework
2 2 (4.44%) HTML
2 2 (4.44%) PySpark
2 2 (4.44%) WinForms
3 1 (2.22%) ActiveX
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) SOAP
3 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.22%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Windows
1 15 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (28.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
3 12 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 10 (22.22%) Analytics
4 10 (22.22%) Data Science
5 9 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 9 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 9 (20.00%) Server Patching
5 9 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 7 (15.56%) Agile
6 7 (15.56%) Time Management
7 5 (11.11%) ERP
7 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
7 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (71.11%) SQL
2 13 (28.89%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) C#
3 4 (8.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (8.89%) VB.NET
4 2 (4.44%) Delphi
4 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.44%) PHP
4 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.22%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) VB
5 1 (2.22%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 12 (26.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) DevExpress
3 2 (4.44%) Infor
3 2 (4.44%) Meraki
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe
4 1 (2.22%) Sage