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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 565 603
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +2
Permanent jobs citing VBA 148 98 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 0.70% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 121 67 185
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,445 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% +0.89% -2.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -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 17,049 14,021 33,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 30.87% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,093 9,273 25,419
10th Percentile £36,750 £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 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +2 146 £57,500 +4.55% 41
UK excluding London -24 103 £55,000 +29.41% 24
Work from Home -6 50 £63,076 +30.03% 20
London -14 43 £90,500 +20.67% 24
South East -14 33 £62,500 +13.64% 10
Midlands +4 25 £31,000 -31.11% 4
North of England -21 25 £50,000 +69.49% 8
West Midlands -7 13 £42,500 -5.56% 2
North West +4 12 £45,000 +52.54% 5
East Midlands - 12 £30,500 - 2
South West -72 11 £52,500 -16.00%
Yorkshire - 10 £63,076 - 1
East of England -20 9 £45,000 +63.64% 1
North East - 3 £63,076 - 3

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 18 (12.16%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.76%) IIS
3 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) Appian
Applications
1 113 (76.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (14.86%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (14.86%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.03%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.35%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.35%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.35%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 83 (56.08%) Power Platform
2 42 (28.38%) PowerApps
3 36 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.81%) Power Automate
5 5 (3.38%) AWS
5 5 (3.38%) Azure
6 3 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.08%) DHCP
1 9 (6.08%) DNS
1 9 (6.08%) Firewall
1 9 (6.08%) TCP/IP
1 9 (6.08%) VLAN
2 2 (1.35%) Intranet
2 2 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (45.27%) Power BI
2 17 (11.49%) Power Query
3 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.38%) Big Data
5 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.38%) Tableau
6 4 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (2.03%) MySQL
7 3 (2.03%) PowerPivot
8 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Git
2 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.35%) Finance
3 34 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Front Office
4 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.78%) Legal
6 11 (7.43%) Retail
7 9 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (6.08%) Marketing
8 8 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.73%) Law
10 5 (3.38%) Banking
11 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (31.08%) Analyst
2 29 (19.59%) Senior
3 25 (16.89%) Developer
4 23 (15.54%) Data Analyst
5 18 (12.16%) Consultant
6 14 (9.46%) Digital Project Manager
6 14 (9.46%) Project Manager
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Digital Project Manager
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Manager
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Project Manager
7 12 (8.11%) Financial Analyst
7 12 (8.11%) IT Support
7 12 (8.11%) RAD Developer
8 11 (7.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 11 (7.43%) Power BI Analyst
9 10 (6.76%) Senior Consultant
9 10 (6.76%) Support Technician
10 9 (6.08%) IT Support Technician
10 9 (6.08%) IT Technician
11 8 (5.41%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) CSS
1 13 (8.78%) HTML
2 9 (6.08%) .NET
3 7 (4.73%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.73%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.70%) JSON
6 3 (2.03%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.35%) DOM
7 2 (1.35%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.35%) NumPy
7 2 (1.35%) Pandas
7 2 (1.35%) PySpark
7 2 (1.35%) Seaborn
7 2 (1.35%) XML
8 1 (0.68%) ADO
8 1 (0.68%) COM
8 1 (0.68%) REST
8 1 (0.68%) SOAP
8 1 (0.68%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Fixed Income
1 16 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (10.14%) Low-Code
3 14 (9.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (9.46%) Legacy Applications
4 12 (8.11%) Hedge funds
4 12 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.73%) Pricing Data
6 5 (3.38%) Derivative
6 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.03%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.03%) Social Media
8 3 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.35%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.86%) Windows
2 21 (14.19%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.43%) Linux
4 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (25.68%) Agile
3 31 (20.95%) Data Analysis
3 31 (20.95%) Visualisation
4 30 (20.27%) Mentoring
5 29 (19.59%) Decision-Making
6 27 (18.24%) Project Management
7 24 (16.22%) Analytics
7 24 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (14.19%) Project Delivery
9 20 (13.51%) Data Science
9 20 (13.51%) ERP
10 19 (12.84%) Data Visualisation
11 18 (12.16%) Coaching
11 18 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (10.81%) Process Improvement
13 14 (9.46%) Conflict Resolution
13 14 (9.46%) ETL
13 14 (9.46%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (54.05%) SQL
2 57 (38.51%) Python
3 29 (19.59%) C#
4 16 (10.81%) VBScript
5 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.76%) Java
6 10 (6.76%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.73%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.05%) VB
9 5 (3.38%) Bash
9 5 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.38%) Rust
10 4 (2.70%) PHP
11 3 (2.03%) R
11 3 (2.03%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.35%) C++
13 1 (0.68%) VC++
Qualifications
1 26 (17.57%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) Master's Degree
3 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) ACCA
4 9 (6.08%) CIMA
5 7 (4.73%) APMP
5 7 (4.73%) MBA
6 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) HND
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.05%) SLA
3 5 (3.38%) QA
4 3 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.03%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) EMIR
System Software
1 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.08%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.38%) Docker
3 5 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.38%) Ansible
1 5 (3.38%) Grafana
1 5 (3.38%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
1 5 (3.38%) SCCM
1 5 (3.38%) Terraform
2 2 (1.35%) MOM
Vendors
1 58 (39.19%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.81%) SAP
3 8 (5.41%) Adobe
4 7 (4.73%) iManage
5 6 (4.05%) Oracle
6 5 (3.38%) Databricks
6 5 (3.38%) IBM
6 5 (3.38%) Snow
6 5 (3.38%) Splunk
6 5 (3.38%) VMware
7 4 (2.70%) SYSPRO
8 2 (1.35%) Cisco
8 2 (1.35%) Cognos
8 2 (1.35%) Infor
8 2 (1.35%) Meraki
9 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.68%) Litera
9 1 (0.68%) Pega