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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 545 520
Rank change year-on-year -124 -25 +104
Permanent jobs citing VBA 123 131 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.27% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 1.00% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 97 80 96
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.50% -14.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.57% -5.28% -4.76%

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 18,840 13,102 24,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.23% 26.51% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,336 8,465 15,075
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,231
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -121 121 £57,500 +34.50% 243
London -40 65 £80,000 +23.08% 166
UK excluding London -165 56 £45,000 +5.57% 95
Work from Home -76 40 £57,500 +35.29% 78
Midlands -34 16 £31,000 - 18
East Midlands -26 12 £31,000 - 5
North of England -71 12 £45,000 +83.67% 26
South West -91 12 £52,500 +5.00% 10
South East -60 11 £57,500 +6.98% 24
Yorkshire - 7 £28,000 - 8
North West -26 5 £45,000 +83.67% 14
East of England -35 5 £45,000 +63.64% 4
West Midlands -44 4 - - 13

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 23 (18.70%) SharePoint
2 13 (10.57%) IIS
3 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (4.07%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.44%) SAS
6 2 (1.63%) CMS
6 2 (1.63%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.81%) Appian
7 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.81%) MTS
Applications
1 88 (71.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (18.70%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (9.76%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.44%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.63%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.63%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.81%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.21%) Power Platform
2 36 (29.27%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (18.70%) PowerApps
4 19 (15.45%) Azure
5 17 (13.82%) Power Automate
6 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.69%) AWS
8 3 (2.44%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.81%) NetDocuments
10 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.38%) TCP/IP
2 12 (9.76%) DHCP
2 12 (9.76%) DNS
2 12 (9.76%) Firewall
2 12 (9.76%) VLAN
3 2 (1.63%) Intranet
3 2 (1.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (33.33%) Power BI
2 31 (25.20%) SQL Server
3 15 (12.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (7.32%) Power Query
5 6 (4.88%) Big Data
5 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.44%) MySQL
6 3 (2.44%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.63%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Git
2 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 61 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.64%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.57%) Front Office
5 11 (8.94%) Legal
6 10 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (7.32%) Banking
7 9 (7.32%) Law
8 8 (6.50%) Manufacturing
8 8 (6.50%) Marketing
8 8 (6.50%) Retail
9 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.81%) Back Office
12 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (38.21%) Developer
2 33 (26.83%) Analyst
3 19 (15.45%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.20%) IT Support
5 12 (9.76%) IT Support Technician
5 12 (9.76%) IT Technician
5 12 (9.76%) RAD Developer
5 12 (9.76%) Support Technician
6 10 (8.13%) Junior
6 10 (8.13%) Senior
7 9 (7.32%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.50%) Consultant
8 8 (6.50%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.69%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Business Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Junior Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (4.88%) Data Analytics Analyst
10 6 (4.88%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 6 (4.88%) Marketing Analytics Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.45%) .NET
1 19 (15.45%) CSS
1 19 (15.45%) HTML
2 14 (11.38%) ASP.NET
3 13 (10.57%) .NET Framework
4 10 (8.13%) .NET Core
5 8 (6.50%) REST
6 7 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.69%) Terraform
7 6 (4.88%) Entity Framework
7 6 (4.88%) JSON
8 5 (4.07%) Blazor
9 4 (3.25%) XML
10 3 (2.44%) Classic ASP
10 3 (2.44%) HTML5
10 3 (2.44%) RESTful
11 2 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
11 2 (1.63%) Matplotlib
11 2 (1.63%) NumPy
11 2 (1.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Fixed Income
1 18 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.94%) Hedge funds
2 11 (8.94%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.69%) Derivative
4 6 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.88%) Low-Code
5 5 (4.07%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.44%) Equities
7 3 (2.44%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.44%) Social Media
7 3 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.95%) Windows
2 24 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.50%) Linux
4 6 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (23.58%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (17.07%) Mentoring
5 20 (16.26%) Collaborative Working
6 18 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 18 (14.63%) Process Improvement
7 17 (13.82%) Analytics
8 16 (13.01%) Data Analysis
8 16 (13.01%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (12.20%) DevOps
10 14 (11.38%) Agile
10 14 (11.38%) AI
11 13 (10.57%) Data Science
12 12 (9.76%) RAD
13 11 (8.94%) Service Delivery
14 10 (8.13%) Project Delivery
14 10 (8.13%) Time Management
15 9 (7.32%) Server Patching
15 9 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (60.98%) SQL
2 38 (30.89%) C#
3 36 (29.27%) Python
4 17 (13.82%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.76%) VBScript
6 10 (8.13%) Java
6 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.50%) T-SQL
8 7 (5.69%) Bash
8 7 (5.69%) Rust
9 6 (4.88%) R
10 5 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (4.07%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.44%) PHP
11 3 (2.44%) VB
12 2 (1.63%) Delphi
13 1 (0.81%) C++
13 1 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Degree
2 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.32%) SLA
2 6 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.88%) QA
3 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (15.45%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.76%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.69%) Docker
4 6 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Ansible
1 7 (5.69%) Grafana
1 7 (5.69%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (45.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.69%) iManage
2 7 (5.69%) Splunk
3 5 (4.07%) Databricks
4 3 (2.44%) Adobe
5 2 (1.63%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.63%) Cisco
5 2 (1.63%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.63%) Infor
5 2 (1.63%) Meraki
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle
5 2 (1.63%) SAP
5 2 (1.63%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.81%) Aderant
6 1 (0.81%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.81%) Foundry
6 1 (0.81%) Intapp
6 1 (0.81%) Litera
6 1 (0.81%) Sybase
6 1 (0.81%) Tradeweb