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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 536 487
Rank change year-on-year -145 -49 +114
Permanent jobs citing VBA 117 136 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.27% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 1.06% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 92 82 90
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £31,475
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +34.50% -20.47% +2.38%
75th Percentile £83,125 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,750 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.11% -1.60%

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 18,701 12,833 23,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.86% 25.94% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,269 8,249 14,060
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,625
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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -126 115 £57,500 +34.50% 308
London -32 63 £77,500 +10.71% 189
UK excluding London -163 52 £45,000 +5.88% 134
Work from Home -81 38 £57,500 +35.29% 96
Midlands -32 17 £31,000 - 29
East Midlands -24 12 £31,000 - 10
South West -91 12 £52,500 +13.21% 10
North of England -79 10 £45,000 +83.67% 33
South East -74 8 £57,500 +6.98% 33
Yorkshire - 6 £36,500 - 13
East of England -37 5 £45,000 +63.64% 7
West Midlands -45 5 £70,000 - 19
North West -41 4 £45,000 +83.67% 16

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 (18.80%) SharePoint
2 13 (11.11%) IIS
3 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.56%) SAS
6 2 (1.71%) CMS
6 2 (1.71%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.85%) Appian
7 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.85%) MTS
Applications
1 83 (70.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (19.66%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (9.40%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.56%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.71%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.71%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.85%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 34 (29.06%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (17.95%) PowerApps
4 19 (16.24%) Azure
5 17 (14.53%) Power Automate
6 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.98%) AWS
8 3 (2.56%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.85%) NetDocuments
10 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.97%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.26%) DHCP
2 12 (10.26%) DNS
2 12 (10.26%) Firewall
2 12 (10.26%) VLAN
3 2 (1.71%) Intranet
3 2 (1.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.33%) Power BI
2 30 (25.64%) SQL Server
3 15 (12.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (8.55%) Power Query
5 6 (5.13%) Big Data
6 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.56%) MySQL
7 3 (2.56%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 59 (50.43%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.06%) Finance
3 17 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.26%) Front Office
5 10 (8.55%) Legal
6 9 (7.69%) Law
6 9 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (6.84%) Banking
7 8 (6.84%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.13%) Marketing
8 6 (5.13%) Retail
9 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.85%) Back Office
11 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 45 (38.46%) Developer
2 31 (26.50%) Analyst
3 19 (16.24%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.82%) IT Support
5 12 (10.26%) IT Support Technician
5 12 (10.26%) IT Technician
5 12 (10.26%) Support Technician
6 11 (9.40%) RAD Developer
7 10 (8.55%) Junior
8 9 (7.69%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Consultant
9 7 (5.98%) Junior Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Senior
10 6 (5.13%) Business Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.13%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (4.27%) Marketing Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.24%) CSS
1 19 (16.24%) HTML
2 18 (15.38%) .NET
3 13 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 12 (10.26%) .NET Framework
5 10 (8.55%) .NET Core
6 8 (6.84%) REST
7 7 (5.98%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.98%) Terraform
8 6 (5.13%) Entity Framework
8 6 (5.13%) JSON
9 5 (4.27%) Blazor
10 4 (3.42%) XML
11 3 (2.56%) Classic ASP
11 3 (2.56%) HTML5
11 3 (2.56%) RESTful
12 2 (1.71%) HTML5 Canvas
12 2 (1.71%) Matplotlib
12 2 (1.71%) NumPy
12 2 (1.71%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 17 (14.53%) Fixed Income
3 11 (9.40%) Onboarding
4 10 (8.55%) Hedge funds
5 7 (5.98%) Derivative
6 6 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (5.13%) Low-Code
7 5 (4.27%) Credit Risk
7 5 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.56%) Equities
8 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.56%) Social Media
8 3 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.71%) Pricing Data
10 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.08%) Windows
2 24 (20.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.84%) Linux
4 6 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (24.79%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (17.95%) Mentoring
5 20 (17.09%) Collaborative Working
6 18 (15.38%) Process Improvement
7 17 (14.53%) Decision-Making
8 16 (13.68%) Analytics
8 16 (13.68%) Data Analysis
9 15 (12.82%) AI
9 15 (12.82%) DevOps
9 15 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
10 13 (11.11%) Agile
11 12 (10.26%) Data Science
12 11 (9.40%) RAD
12 11 (9.40%) Service Delivery
13 10 (8.55%) Project Delivery
13 10 (8.55%) Workflow
14 9 (7.69%) Risk Management
14 9 (7.69%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 71 (60.68%) SQL
2 36 (30.77%) C#
2 36 (30.77%) Python
3 16 (13.68%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.40%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.40%) VBScript
5 9 (7.69%) Java
6 8 (6.84%) T-SQL
7 7 (5.98%) Bash
7 7 (5.98%) Rust
8 6 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (5.13%) R
9 5 (4.27%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.56%) PHP
10 3 (2.56%) VB
11 2 (1.71%) Delphi
12 1 (0.85%) C++
12 1 (0.85%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (17.09%) Degree
2 7 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
2 7 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.69%) SLA
2 6 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.13%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (16.24%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.26%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.98%) Docker
4 6 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Ansible
1 7 (5.98%) Grafana
1 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (47.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.98%) iManage
2 7 (5.98%) Splunk
3 5 (4.27%) Databricks
4 3 (2.56%) Adobe
5 2 (1.71%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.71%) Cisco
5 2 (1.71%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.71%) Infor
5 2 (1.71%) Meraki
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Aderant
6 1 (0.85%) Foundry
6 1 (0.85%) Intapp
6 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.85%) Litera
6 1 (0.85%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.85%) Sybase
6 1 (0.85%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.85%) Tradeweb