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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 566 542
Rank change year-on-year -87 -24 +84
Permanent jobs citing VBA 133 126 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 0.91% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 104 74 124
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,013 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.08% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,125 £67,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.57% -5.28% -

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 18,548 13,784 25,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.25% 27.62% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,164 9,048 17,496
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 13 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 20 August 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 -78 133 £56,000 +24.44% 153
UK excluding London -115 68 £45,000 +5.57% 44
London -19 65 £80,000 +6.67% 117
Work from Home -51 43 £57,500 +31.43% 35
Midlands -12 17 £31,000 -31.11% 12
North of England -31 16 £45,000 +83.67% 14
South East -38 16 £57,500 +17.95% 13
East Midlands -14 13 £31,000 - 8
South West -88 11 £52,500 +4.48% 2
North West -17 10 £45,000 +83.67% 7
East of England -27 8 £45,000 +63.64% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £28,000 - 7
West Midlands -27 4 - - 4

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 22 (16.54%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.02%) IIS
3 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.50%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.50%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.75%) Appian
6 1 (0.75%) MTS
Applications
1 104 (78.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (18.80%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (10.53%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.26%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.50%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.50%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.50%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 56 (42.11%) Power Platform
2 40 (30.08%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (18.05%) PowerApps
4 16 (12.03%) Power Automate
5 15 (11.28%) Azure
6 7 (5.26%) AWS
7 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 12 (9.02%) DHCP
2 12 (9.02%) DNS
2 12 (9.02%) Firewall
2 12 (9.02%) VLAN
3 2 (1.50%) Intranet
3 2 (1.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (37.59%) Power BI
2 27 (20.30%) SQL Server
3 15 (11.28%) Power Query
4 13 (9.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (4.51%) Big Data
5 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.01%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (2.26%) MySQL
7 3 (2.26%) PowerPivot
7 3 (2.26%) Tableau
8 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Git
2 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 65 (48.87%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.32%) Finance
3 19 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.28%) Front Office
4 15 (11.28%) Retail
5 12 (9.02%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (7.52%) Legal
6 10 (7.52%) Marketing
7 9 (6.77%) Banking
8 8 (6.02%) Law
9 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 42 (31.58%) Developer
2 36 (27.07%) Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Data Analyst
4 15 (11.28%) IT Support
4 15 (11.28%) Senior
5 13 (9.77%) RAD Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Consultant
6 12 (9.02%) IT Support Technician
6 12 (9.02%) IT Technician
6 12 (9.02%) Support Technician
7 10 (7.52%) Junior
7 10 (7.52%) Senior Consultant
8 9 (6.77%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (6.02%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Business Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Junior Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Data Manager
11 6 (4.51%) Marketing Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Marketing Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.28%) .NET
1 15 (11.28%) CSS
1 15 (11.28%) HTML
2 11 (8.27%) ASP.NET
3 9 (6.77%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (5.26%) Terraform
5 6 (4.51%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.51%) REST
6 5 (3.76%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.26%) JSON
7 3 (2.26%) XSLT
8 2 (1.50%) Blazor
8 2 (1.50%) Classic ASP
8 2 (1.50%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.50%) NumPy
8 2 (1.50%) Pandas
8 2 (1.50%) PySpark
8 2 (1.50%) Seaborn
8 2 (1.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 15 (11.28%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.02%) Hedge funds
4 11 (8.27%) Onboarding
5 8 (6.02%) Derivative
6 7 (5.26%) Pricing Data
7 6 (4.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.76%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.76%) Low-Code
9 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
9 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (3.01%) Equities
9 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.26%) Social Media
10 3 (2.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.75%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.75%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.55%) Windows
2 24 (18.05%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.52%) Linux
4 6 (4.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (16.54%) Collaborative Working
3 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (16.54%) Mentoring
4 21 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 20 (15.04%) Data Analysis
6 19 (14.29%) Process Improvement
7 18 (13.53%) Analytics
7 18 (13.53%) Requirements Gathering
8 16 (12.03%) Agile
8 16 (12.03%) Data Science
9 13 (9.77%) DevOps
9 13 (9.77%) RAD
10 12 (9.02%) Time Management
11 10 (7.52%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (7.52%) ERP
11 10 (7.52%) Migration
11 10 (7.52%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.77%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (60.90%) SQL
2 46 (34.59%) Python
3 36 (27.07%) C#
4 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.28%) VBScript
5 12 (9.02%) Java
6 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.02%) T-SQL
8 7 (5.26%) Bash
8 7 (5.26%) Rust
9 6 (4.51%) R
10 5 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.26%) PHP
11 3 (2.26%) VB
11 3 (2.26%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.50%) C++
13 1 (0.75%) Tcl
13 1 (0.75%) VC++
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
2 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.77%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) APMP
5 1 (0.75%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.77%) SLA
3 6 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.51%) QA
4 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.75%) EMIR
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.02%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.26%) Docker
4 6 (4.51%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.26%) Ansible
1 7 (5.26%) Grafana
1 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.26%) iManage
2 7 (5.26%) Splunk
3 5 (3.76%) Adobe
3 5 (3.76%) Databricks
3 5 (3.76%) Oracle
3 5 (3.76%) SAP
4 4 (3.01%) SYSPRO
5 2 (1.50%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.50%) Cisco
5 2 (1.50%) IBM
5 2 (1.50%) Infor
5 2 (1.50%) Meraki
5 2 (1.50%) Snow
5 2 (1.50%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.75%) Litera
6 1 (0.75%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.75%) Pega
6 1 (0.75%) Tradeweb