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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 562 628
Rank change year-on-year -22 +66 -25
Permanent jobs citing VBA 146 78 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 0.57% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 112 57 181
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +15.79% -7.50%
75th Percentile £66,563 £77,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.03% +12.10% +8.43%

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 15,641 13,766 32,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 32.38% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,647 10,074 25,002
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +22 142 £56,000 -2.61% 47
UK excluding London -7 106 £55,000 +9.03% 28
Work from Home +26 44 £63,076 +9.70% 27
South East +7 42 £57,500 - 12
London -8 36 £73,000 -2.67% 26
North of England -36 29 £50,000 +4.17% 6
Midlands -19 20 £42,500 +6.25% 3
West Midlands -5 17 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North West -9 14 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire - 12 £63,076 - 2
East of England -16 9 £52,500 +90.91% 3
South West -54 6 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands -38 3 £28,750 -23.33% 1
North East - 3 £63,076 -

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 (13.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.48%) IIS
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) Appian
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 104 (71.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (16.44%) Spreadsheet
3 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.05%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.68%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 89 (60.96%) Power Platform
2 41 (28.08%) PowerApps
3 25 (17.12%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (11.64%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.05%) AWS
5 3 (2.05%) Azure
6 2 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.37%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (51.37%) Power BI
2 18 (12.33%) Power Query
3 17 (11.64%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (6.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.11%) Tableau
6 5 (3.42%) Pentaho
6 5 (3.42%) PowerPivot
7 4 (2.74%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.05%) MySQL
9 2 (1.37%) Big Data
9 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.37%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Git
1 1 (0.68%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (43.15%) Social Skills
2 46 (31.51%) Finance
3 41 (28.08%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.27%) Retail
5 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.22%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (7.53%) Front Office
8 10 (6.85%) Legal
9 8 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.11%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.42%) Marketing
12 4 (2.74%) Banking
12 4 (2.74%) Law
13 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.68%) Automotive
14 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (36.30%) Analyst
2 29 (19.86%) Senior
3 27 (18.49%) Developer
4 26 (17.81%) Data Analyst
5 18 (12.33%) Consultant
6 15 (10.27%) Financial Analyst
7 14 (9.59%) Digital Project Manager
7 14 (9.59%) Project Manager
7 14 (9.59%) Senior Digital Project Manager
7 14 (9.59%) Senior Manager
7 14 (9.59%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (6.16%) Principal Consultant
8 9 (6.16%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Power BI Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.48%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (4.79%) RAD Developer
11 6 (4.11%) Data Manager
11 6 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) .NET
2 11 (7.53%) CSS
2 11 (7.53%) HTML
3 7 (4.79%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.79%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.42%) XML
5 4 (2.74%) JSON
6 3 (2.05%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.05%) XSLT
7 2 (1.37%) DOM
7 2 (1.37%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.37%) NumPy
7 2 (1.37%) Pandas
7 2 (1.37%) Seaborn
8 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.68%) PySpark
8 1 (0.68%) REST
8 1 (0.68%) RESTful
8 1 (0.68%) SOAP
8 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.27%) Legacy Systems
1 15 (10.27%) Low-Code
2 14 (9.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (9.59%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (5.48%) Fixed Income
4 7 (4.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.79%) Hedge funds
4 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.79%) Pricing Data
5 6 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.05%) Social Media
7 3 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.37%) Derivative
8 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.68%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.53%) Windows
2 10 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.79%) Linux
4 5 (3.42%) Unix
5 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.78%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (29.45%) Agile
3 40 (27.40%) Decision-Making
4 38 (26.03%) Data Analysis
5 33 (22.60%) Visualisation
6 29 (19.86%) Project Management
7 24 (16.44%) ETL
8 23 (15.75%) ERP
9 22 (15.07%) Mentoring
10 20 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (12.33%) Coaching
12 17 (11.64%) Data Science
13 16 (10.96%) Data Visualisation
14 15 (10.27%) Analytics
14 15 (10.27%) Project Delivery
15 14 (9.59%) Budget Management
15 14 (9.59%) Conflict Resolution
15 14 (9.59%) Digital Strategy
15 14 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (9.59%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.11%) SQL
2 67 (45.89%) Python
3 23 (15.75%) C#
4 14 (9.59%) VBScript
5 13 (8.90%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.22%) Java
7 9 (6.16%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.79%) PHP
8 7 (4.79%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.11%) VB
10 5 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (2.74%) C++
11 4 (2.74%) VB.NET
12 3 (2.05%) VC++
13 1 (0.68%) Bash
13 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (21.92%) Degree
2 16 (10.96%) ACCA
2 16 (10.96%) CIMA
2 16 (10.96%) Master's Degree
3 14 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.59%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.16%) APMP
4 9 (6.16%) MBA
5 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.05%) PMP
6 2 (1.37%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.37%) HND
6 2 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.05%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.05%) EMIR
3 3 (2.05%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS
4 1 (0.68%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.68%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.37%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) SCCM
2 2 (1.37%) MOM
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Control-M
3 1 (0.68%) Grafana
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (36.99%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.75%) SAP
3 10 (6.85%) Oracle
4 8 (5.48%) Adobe
5 5 (3.42%) IBM
5 5 (3.42%) Informatica
5 5 (3.42%) Snow
5 5 (3.42%) Talend
5 5 (3.42%) VMware
6 4 (2.74%) iManage
6 4 (2.74%) SYSPRO
7 2 (1.37%) Citrix
7 2 (1.37%) Cognos
8 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.68%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) Murex
8 1 (0.68%) Pega
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk