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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 471 489
Rank change year-on-year -131 +18 +28
Permanent jobs citing VBA 55 83 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 1.08% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 45 47 52
10th Percentile £29,000 £24,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -4.76%
75th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £68,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £42,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +34.50% -14.50% -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 12,185 7,684 15,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.59% 22.45% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,950 4,739 9,131
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,956 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,240 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,350 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -35 16 £31,000 - 25
South East -49 13 £57,500 +6.98% 22
East Midlands -17 12 £31,000 - 10
South West -98 11 £52,500 +4.48% 7
North of England -59 10 £41,850 +70.82% 28
North West -28 5 £45,000 +83.67% 15
East of England -37 5 £45,000 +63.64% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £28,000 - 9
West Midlands -37 4 - - 15
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 13 (23.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.45%) IIS
4 2 (3.64%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.82%) Appian
5 1 (1.82%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 50 (90.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (16.36%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (5.45%) Photoshop
5 2 (3.64%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (3.64%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (1.82%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) Power Platform
2 25 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (30.91%) PowerApps
4 6 (10.91%) Power Automate
5 5 (9.09%) Azure
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) DHCP
1 12 (21.82%) DNS
1 12 (21.82%) Firewall
1 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
1 12 (21.82%) VLAN
2 2 (3.64%) Intranet
2 2 (3.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (45.45%) Power BI
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.73%) Power Query
4 5 (9.09%) Big Data
5 3 (5.45%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (5.45%) MySQL
5 3 (5.45%) PowerPivot
6 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Retail
4 6 (10.91%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.09%) Finance
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Analyst
2 15 (27.27%) IT Support
3 12 (21.82%) IT Support Technician
3 12 (21.82%) IT Technician
3 12 (21.82%) Support Technician
4 11 (20.00%) Senior
5 9 (16.36%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (14.55%) Consultant
6 8 (14.55%) Data Analyst
6 8 (14.55%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (12.73%) Developer
8 6 (10.91%) Junior
9 4 (7.27%) Pricing Analyst
10 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 3 (5.45%) Commercial Analyst
10 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) IT Analyst
10 3 (5.45%) IT Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Power BI Analyst
10 3 (5.45%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) .NET
2 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
2 6 (10.91%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.27%) CSS
3 4 (7.27%) HTML
4 3 (5.45%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.45%) JSON
5 2 (3.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.45%) Pricing Data
2 3 (5.45%) Social Media
2 3 (5.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Windows
1 17 (30.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (30.91%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 13 (23.64%) Data Science
4 13 (23.64%) Requirements Gathering
5 12 (21.82%) Decision-Making
5 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
6 11 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (18.18%) Agile
7 10 (18.18%) Analytics
7 10 (18.18%) Time Management
8 9 (16.36%) Project Delivery
8 9 (16.36%) Risk Management
8 9 (16.36%) Server Patching
8 9 (16.36%) Service Delivery
9 8 (14.55%) Process Improvement
9 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (12.73%) ERP
11 6 (10.91%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (70.91%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) C#
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.45%) PHP
4 3 (5.45%) VB.NET
4 3 (5.45%) VBScript
5 2 (3.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) SLA
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
1 12 (21.82%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 31 (56.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Databricks
3 3 (5.45%) Adobe
3 3 (5.45%) SYSPRO
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Infor
4 2 (3.64%) Meraki
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.82%) Pega