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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 595 607
Rank change year-on-year -35 +12 +80
Permanent jobs citing VBA 110 334 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 0.99% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 73 185 172
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,445 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £71,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%

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 16,884 33,730 36,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.37% 31.56% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10,803 24,985 25,806
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 99 £55,000 +10.00% 459
UK excluding London +48 74 £42,500 -5.56% 157
Work from Home +80 66 £50,000 - 139
London 0 31 £75,000 +15.38% 325
South West +96 25 £55,000 -8.33% 11
South East +48 15 £55,000 +22.22% 52
East of England +28 14 £27,500 -38.89% 19
North of England -13 11 £29,500 -21.33% 40
North West -17 11 £29,500 -37.89% 18
Scotland +85 4 £50,445 - 11
Wales +35 3 £24,205 -19.32% 4
Midlands +65 2 £45,000 -5.26% 22
West Midlands +57 2 £45,000 +5.88% 15

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 9 (8.18%) IIS
1 9 (8.18%) Tomcat
2 8 (7.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.91%) MTS
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 76 (69.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.91%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (5.45%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.64%) Sage 1000
3 2 (1.82%) Infor M3
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.64%) Power Platform
2 44 (40.00%) Azure
3 22 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (16.36%) Power Automate
5 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (8.18%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.82%) dbt
9 1 (0.91%) AWS
9 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.91%) SaaS
9 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) DMARC
1 9 (8.18%) SSL
2 3 (2.73%) SMTP
3 1 (0.91%) Network Security
3 1 (0.91%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (43.64%) Power BI
2 22 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 20 (18.18%) Data Mining
4 18 (16.36%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (8.18%) Tableau
6 8 (7.27%) MS Access
6 8 (7.27%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (6.36%) Power Query
8 5 (4.55%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.82%) Looker
10 2 (1.82%) MySQL
11 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.91%) HBase
11 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.91%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Subversion
2 5 (4.55%) Git
General
1 53 (48.18%) Analytical Skills
2 49 (44.55%) Social Skills
3 40 (36.36%) Finance
4 26 (23.64%) Retail
5 14 (12.73%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (8.18%) Banking
6 9 (8.18%) Czech Language
6 9 (8.18%) Manufacturing
6 9 (8.18%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (7.27%) Marketing
8 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.55%) Automotive
10 4 (3.64%) Legal
10 4 (3.64%) Social Housing
10 4 (3.64%) Swedish Language
11 3 (2.73%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (1.82%) Front Office
13 1 (0.91%) Back Office
13 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (31.82%) Developer
2 25 (22.73%) Analyst
3 21 (19.09%) Junior
4 20 (18.18%) IT Support
5 18 (16.36%) Junior Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Senior
7 10 (9.09%) Administrator
7 10 (9.09%) IT Administrator
8 9 (8.18%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.64%) Analyst Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Consultant
10 4 (3.64%) Data Analytics Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.64%) IT Support Analyst
10 4 (3.64%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Support Analyst
10 4 (3.64%) Systems Accountant
10 4 (3.64%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.09%) .NET
2 9 (8.18%) JSON
2 9 (8.18%) REST
2 9 (8.18%) SOAP
2 9 (8.18%) XML
3 8 (7.27%) HTML
4 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.64%) CSS
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) Pandas
5 1 (0.91%) pytest
5 1 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.82%) Data Structures
2 14 (12.73%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.82%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.82%) Replication
9 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.91%) Derivative
9 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.91%) Equities
9 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Windows
2 12 (10.91%) Linux
3 10 (9.09%) Unix
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 25 (22.73%) Data Management
4 23 (20.91%) Coaching
5 21 (19.09%) Analytics
6 20 (18.18%) Customer Experience
6 20 (18.18%) Service Delivery
7 19 (17.27%) Agile
7 19 (17.27%) Performance Management
7 19 (17.27%) WFM
8 18 (16.36%) Commercial Awareness
8 18 (16.36%) Project Management
9 17 (15.45%) CRM
10 16 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (12.73%) ERP
13 12 (10.91%) Customer Service
13 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.91%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 81 (73.64%) SQL
2 29 (26.36%) Python
3 16 (14.55%) Java
4 14 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.91%) C#
6 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.18%) R
8 6 (5.45%) VB
9 5 (4.55%) VB.NET
10 4 (3.64%) Julia
10 4 (3.64%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.82%) C++
11 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.91%) Bash
12 1 (0.91%) C
12 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.91%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.64%) ACCA
3 4 (3.64%) CIMA
4 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.91%) CCSP
5 1 (0.91%) CFA
5 1 (0.91%) CISA
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.91%) CISM
5 1 (0.91%) CISSP
5 1 (0.91%) CRISC
5 1 (0.91%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.82%) GAAP
2 2 (1.82%) IFRS
2 2 (1.82%) IFRS 17
2 2 (1.82%) NIST
2 2 (1.82%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.91%) COBIT
3 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.91%) GRC
3 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.18%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.91%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.82%) Oracle
3 18 (16.36%) Facebook
4 13 (11.82%) SAP
5 6 (5.45%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.55%) Google
6 5 (4.55%) Logitech
7 4 (3.64%) Adaptive Insights
7 4 (3.64%) Blue Prism
7 4 (3.64%) Sage
7 4 (3.64%) UiPath
7 4 (3.64%) Workday
8 3 (2.73%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.73%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.91%) Calypso
9 1 (0.91%) EMC
9 1 (0.91%) Sybase