Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 558 572
Rank change year-on-year -50 +14 +34
Permanent jobs citing VBA 140 116 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 0.80% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 113 75 183
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,445 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% +0.89% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -

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 17,645 14,413 31,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 29.33% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 9,591 23,808
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VBA job vacancy trend in the UK

VBA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 14 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 15 July 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
England -42 138 £57,500 +4.55% 41
UK excluding London -55 90 £52,500 +23.53% 29
Work from Home -35 52 £63,076 +25.59% 20
London -23 48 £90,000 +20.00% 18
South East -16 26 £60,000 +9.09% 10
North of England -21 23 £45,000 +52.54% 5
Midlands -10 21 £31,000 -31.11% 10
East Midlands - 15 £31,000 - 1
North West -7 12 £45,000 +52.54% 3
South West -79 11 £52,500 -4.55% 1
East of England -25 9 £45,000 +63.64% 1
Yorkshire - 9 £63,076 - 1
West Midlands -23 6 £63,076 +40.17% 9
North East - 2 £63,076 - 1

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 19 (13.57%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.14%) IIS
3 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.43%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.71%) Appian
Applications
1 107 (76.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.43%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.43%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.43%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 71 (50.71%) Power Platform
2 40 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (24.29%) PowerApps
4 9 (6.43%) Power Automate
5 7 (5.00%) AWS
6 6 (4.29%) Azure
7 3 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 12 (8.57%) DHCP
2 12 (8.57%) DNS
2 12 (8.57%) Firewall
2 12 (8.57%) VLAN
3 2 (1.43%) Intranet
3 2 (1.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (40.71%) Power BI
2 17 (12.14%) Power Query
3 16 (11.43%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.57%) Big Data
6 5 (3.57%) Tableau
7 4 (2.86%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.14%) MySQL
8 3 (2.14%) PowerPivot
9 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 67 (47.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.71%) Finance
3 21 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.29%) Front Office
4 13 (9.29%) Legal
4 13 (9.29%) Retail
5 11 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.14%) Marketing
7 9 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.00%) Banking
8 7 (5.00%) Law
9 6 (4.29%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.57%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (25.00%) Analyst
2 27 (19.29%) Developer
2 27 (19.29%) Senior
3 20 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 18 (12.86%) Consultant
5 15 (10.71%) IT Support
6 13 (9.29%) Support Technician
7 12 (8.57%) IT Support Technician
7 12 (8.57%) IT Technician
7 12 (8.57%) RAD Developer
8 11 (7.86%) Digital Project Manager
8 11 (7.86%) Project Manager
8 11 (7.86%) Senior Consultant
8 11 (7.86%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 11 (7.86%) Senior Manager
8 11 (7.86%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.29%) Data Manager
11 6 (4.29%) Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) CSS
1 12 (8.57%) HTML
2 9 (6.43%) .NET
3 7 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.86%) JSON
5 3 (2.14%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.43%) DOM
6 2 (1.43%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.43%) NumPy
6 2 (1.43%) Pandas
6 2 (1.43%) PySpark
6 2 (1.43%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.43%) XML
7 1 (0.71%) ADO
7 1 (0.71%) COM
7 1 (0.71%) REST
7 1 (0.71%) SOAP
7 1 (0.71%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Fixed Income
2 13 (9.29%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.29%) Low-Code
3 12 (8.57%) Hedge funds
3 12 (8.57%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.86%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.00%) Pricing Data
7 6 (4.29%) Derivative
8 5 (3.57%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (2.14%) Social Media
10 3 (2.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.43%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.14%) Windows
1 24 (17.14%) Windows Server
2 12 (8.57%) Linux
3 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.43%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (22.86%) Agile
3 31 (22.14%) Mentoring
4 30 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 24 (17.14%) Decision-Making
5 24 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.43%) Project Management
7 22 (15.71%) Collaborative Working
8 21 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 21 (15.00%) Visualisation
9 20 (14.29%) Data Science
10 18 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (12.14%) Process Improvement
12 16 (11.43%) Analytics
12 16 (11.43%) ERP
13 15 (10.71%) Coaching
14 14 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
15 12 (8.57%) RAD
16 11 (7.86%) Data Visualisation
16 11 (7.86%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (54.29%) SQL
2 55 (39.29%) Python
3 31 (22.14%) C#
4 16 (11.43%) VBScript
5 12 (8.57%) Java
5 12 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.00%) Bash
7 7 (5.00%) Rust
7 7 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.29%) VB
9 5 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.57%) R
10 3 (2.14%) PHP
10 3 (2.14%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.71%) C++
11 1 (0.71%) VC++
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Degree
2 14 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.29%) APMP
5 6 (4.29%) MBA
6 5 (3.57%) ACCA
6 5 (3.57%) CIMA
7 2 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.43%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) SLA
2 8 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.29%) QA
4 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) EMIR
System Software
1 19 (13.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.00%) Docker
4 6 (4.29%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) Ansible
1 7 (5.00%) Grafana
1 7 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 7 (5.00%) Terraform
2 5 (3.57%) SCCM
3 2 (1.43%) MOM
Vendors
1 59 (42.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) SAP
3 8 (5.71%) Adobe
4 7 (5.00%) iManage
4 7 (5.00%) Splunk
5 6 (4.29%) Oracle
6 5 (3.57%) Databricks
6 5 (3.57%) IBM
6 5 (3.57%) Snow
6 5 (3.57%) VMware
7 4 (2.86%) SYSPRO
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
8 2 (1.43%) Cognos
8 2 (1.43%) Infor
8 2 (1.43%) Meraki
9 1 (0.71%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.71%) Litera
9 1 (0.71%) Pega