Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VBA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VBA over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 662 663
Rank change year-on-year +105 +1 -117
Permanent jobs citing VBA 303 228 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 0.70% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 151 151 495
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £29,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +14.38% -3.32%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBA.

Salary trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +89 281 £50,000 -4.76% 55
UK excluding London +37 191 £45,000 -1.64% 41
London +96 110 £66,250 -3.74% 18
Work from Home +44 79 £50,000 -8.26% 22
North of England +64 74 £33,000 -22.35% 9
North West +26 40 £33,000 -32.31% 8
South East +6 36 £45,000 -4.76% 12
Yorkshire +72 27 £37,500 +12.33% 1
South West +8 24 £52,500 +23.53% 6
Midlands -18 21 £43,246 -7.99% 10
East of England -13 16 £37,000 -22.11% 2
East Midlands -17 12 £44,496 +36.91% 4
Scotland -42 11 - -
West Midlands -11 9 £42,500 -22.73% 4
North East - 7 £26,500 -
Wales +33 6 £30,000 -40.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (7.26%) SAS
2 9 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (0.99%) Confluence
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Documentum
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 165 (54.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (20.46%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.96%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.98%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (9.57%) iTrent
2 7 (2.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 7 (2.31%) Shopify
3 3 (0.99%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.33%) Endur
4 1 (0.33%) HFM
4 1 (0.33%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.33%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.33%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 71 (23.43%) Power Platform
2 32 (10.56%) Azure
3 29 (9.57%) SuccessFactors
4 8 (2.64%) AWS
5 7 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.98%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.65%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.65%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.32%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.32%) Serverless
9 3 (0.99%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.66%) Collibra
10 2 (0.66%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.65%) Intranet
2 2 (0.66%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.33%) LAN
3 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.11%) Power BI
2 42 (13.86%) SQL Server
3 30 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (7.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 19 (6.27%) Power Query
5 19 (6.27%) Tableau
6 17 (5.61%) Geospatial Data
6 17 (5.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (4.95%) MS Access
8 8 (2.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (2.31%) PowerPivot
10 6 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.98%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (1.65%) OLAP
12 4 (1.32%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.32%) Metadata
12 4 (1.32%) MySQL
12 4 (1.32%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.99%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (3.30%) Visual Studio
2 8 (2.64%) Git
2 8 (2.64%) JIRA
3 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 99 (32.67%) Analytical Skills
2 90 (29.70%) Social Skills
3 80 (26.40%) Finance
4 58 (19.14%) Retail
5 36 (11.88%) Legal
6 34 (11.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 18 (5.94%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.96%) Marketing
9 11 (3.63%) Banking
10 10 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.31%) Law
13 6 (1.98%) Back Office
13 6 (1.98%) Front Office
13 6 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.99%) Billing
14 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.66%) International Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 133 (43.89%) Analyst
2 56 (18.48%) Developer
3 42 (13.86%) Senior
4 32 (10.56%) Analytics Manager
4 32 (10.56%) Data Analytics Manager
5 29 (9.57%) Data Analyst
5 29 (9.57%) HR Analyst
6 28 (9.24%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (6.93%) Pricing Analyst
8 17 (5.61%) Lead
8 17 (5.61%) Senior Pricing Analyst
9 15 (4.95%) .NET Developer
9 15 (4.95%) Applications Support
9 15 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) Applications Developer
11 11 (3.63%) Support Analyst
12 9 (2.97%) Power BI Engineer
13 8 (2.64%) Applications Support Analyst
13 8 (2.64%) Financial Analyst
13 8 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.89%) .NET
2 29 (9.57%) HTML
3 14 (4.62%) .NET Framework
4 13 (4.29%) XML
5 12 (3.96%) CSS
6 9 (2.97%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.64%) ASP.NET
8 7 (2.31%) JSON
8 7 (2.31%) Web Services
9 6 (1.98%) React
10 4 (1.32%) Blazor
10 4 (1.32%) jQuery
10 4 (1.32%) XSLT
11 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.66%) Kafka
11 2 (0.66%) MDX
11 2 (0.66%) SignalR
11 2 (0.66%) WCF
11 2 (0.66%) WF
12 1 (0.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.28%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.30%) Equities
4 9 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.64%) EPoS
5 8 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.31%) Derivative
6 7 (2.31%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.98%) SCADA
8 5 (1.65%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.65%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.32%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.99%) FMCG
10 3 (0.99%) PMI
10 3 (0.99%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.99%) Smart Meter
10 3 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.31%) Windows
2 4 (1.32%) Android
2 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.32%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (32.01%) Analytics
2 85 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 67 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (19.80%) Data Analysis
5 48 (15.84%) Mathematics
5 48 (15.84%) Visualisation
6 45 (14.85%) Workflow
7 44 (14.52%) Data Analytics
7 44 (14.52%) Strategic Thinking
8 42 (13.86%) Requirements Gathering
9 41 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (12.21%) Data Visualisation
11 34 (11.22%) Validation
12 32 (10.56%) Logistics
13 30 (9.90%) Performance Management
14 29 (9.57%) Agile
15 28 (9.24%) Computer Science
15 28 (9.24%) Project Management
15 28 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (7.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 204 (67.33%) SQL
2 94 (31.02%) Python
3 37 (12.21%) T-SQL
4 32 (10.56%) C#
4 32 (10.56%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.26%) R
6 19 (6.27%) VB.NET
7 15 (4.95%) MATLAB
8 14 (4.62%) VB
9 11 (3.63%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.64%) Java
11 7 (2.31%) PHP
12 6 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.32%) Julia
14 3 (0.99%) C
14 3 (0.99%) VBScript
15 2 (0.66%) C++
15 2 (0.66%) VB6
16 1 (0.33%) Formula Language
16 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 106 (34.98%) Degree
2 18 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.66%) PMP
11 1 (0.33%) ACCA
11 1 (0.33%) CFA
11 1 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.33%) CIMA
11 1 (0.33%) HND
11 1 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 34 (11.22%) QA
3 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (2.31%) Control-M
2 2 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (29.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.56%) SAP
3 11 (3.63%) Oracle
4 8 (2.64%) Cognos
4 8 (2.64%) Databricks
5 7 (2.31%) Sage
6 6 (1.98%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.65%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.99%) Avaya
9 3 (0.99%) UiPath
10 2 (0.66%) Adobe
10 2 (0.66%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.66%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.66%) IBM
11 1 (0.33%) Citrix
11 1 (0.33%) iManage
11 1 (0.33%) Murex
11 1 (0.33%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.33%) OpenText