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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 555 634
Rank change year-on-year -37 +79 -33
Permanent jobs citing VBA 144 93 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 0.70% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 114 57 177
10th Percentile £36,340 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,254 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.39% +5.01% +5.88%

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 16,346 13,195 32,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.58% 31.04% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 8,880 25,013
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 27 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 27 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 -1 142 £57,500 +4.55% 38
UK excluding London -18 102 £55,000 +16.39% 25
Work from Home +6 42 £63,076 +25.59% 18
London -9 40 £73,000 -2.67% 14
South East +11 34 £62,500 +13.64% 8
North of England -8 27 £50,000 +55.04% 4
Midlands -10 23 £40,000 -11.11% 5
West Midlands -22 16 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North West -8 13 £45,000 +39.53% 3
Yorkshire - 11 £63,076 - 1
East of England -26 10 £48,750 +77.27% 1
South West -73 8 £53,750 -14.00% 6
East Midlands - 7 £30,000 - 2
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 18 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.94%) IIS
3 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.39%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.69%) Appian
6 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 101 (70.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (15.28%) Spreadsheet
3 21 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.08%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.39%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.39%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.39%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.69%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 84 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 41 (28.47%) PowerApps
3 31 (21.53%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 5 (3.47%) Azure
6 4 (2.78%) AWS
7 2 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) DHCP
1 4 (2.78%) DNS
1 4 (2.78%) Firewall
1 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.78%) VLAN
2 2 (1.39%) Intranet
2 2 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (47.22%) Power BI
2 18 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 17 (11.81%) Power Query
4 10 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.17%) Tableau
7 5 (3.47%) Pentaho
8 4 (2.78%) Big Data
8 4 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (2.08%) MySQL
9 3 (2.08%) PowerPivot
10 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.69%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 61 (42.36%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.17%) Finance
3 38 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.03%) Legal
6 12 (8.33%) Retail
7 11 (7.64%) Front Office
8 10 (6.94%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.86%) Law
10 6 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 6 (4.17%) Marketing
10 6 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.08%) Banking
12 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 44 (30.56%) Analyst
2 28 (19.44%) Senior
3 27 (18.75%) Developer
4 22 (15.28%) Data Analyst
5 18 (12.50%) Consultant
6 14 (9.72%) Digital Project Manager
6 14 (9.72%) Project Manager
6 14 (9.72%) Senior Digital Project Manager
6 14 (9.72%) Senior Manager
6 14 (9.72%) Senior Project Manager
7 12 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
8 10 (6.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (6.94%) Power BI Analyst
9 8 (5.56%) Principal Consultant
9 8 (5.56%) RAD Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (4.86%) IT Support
11 6 (4.17%) Pricing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.03%) CSS
1 13 (9.03%) HTML
2 12 (8.33%) .NET
3 7 (4.86%) .NET Framework
3 7 (4.86%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.78%) JSON
5 3 (2.08%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.08%) XML
6 2 (1.39%) DOM
6 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.39%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.39%) NumPy
6 2 (1.39%) Pandas
6 2 (1.39%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.39%) XSLT
7 1 (0.69%) PySpark
7 1 (0.69%) REST
7 1 (0.69%) RESTful
7 1 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
1 15 (10.42%) Low-Code
2 14 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (9.72%) Legacy Applications
3 11 (7.64%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.25%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.56%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.86%) Pricing Data
7 5 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.08%) Social Media
9 3 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.39%) Derivative
10 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.39%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.69%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.50%) Windows
2 17 (11.81%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.56%) Linux
4 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.19%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (26.39%) Agile
3 33 (22.92%) Visualisation
4 32 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 32 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 28 (19.44%) Project Management
6 25 (17.36%) Mentoring
7 22 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (15.28%) ERP
7 22 (15.28%) ETL
8 20 (13.89%) Analytics
9 18 (12.50%) Coaching
9 18 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
9 18 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 17 (11.81%) Data Science
11 16 (11.11%) Process Improvement
12 14 (9.72%) Conflict Resolution
12 14 (9.72%) Digital Strategy
12 14 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (9.72%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (56.25%) SQL
2 63 (43.75%) Python
3 23 (15.97%) C#
4 16 (11.11%) VBScript
5 13 (9.03%) Java
5 13 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.17%) PHP
8 6 (4.17%) VB
9 4 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.08%) C++
10 3 (2.08%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.39%) Bash
11 2 (1.39%) Rust
11 2 (1.39%) VC++
Qualifications
1 26 (18.06%) Degree
2 13 (9.03%) Master's Degree
3 12 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.94%) ACCA
4 10 (6.94%) CIMA
5 8 (5.56%) APMP
5 8 (5.56%) MBA
6 2 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) HND
6 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.39%) PMP
6 2 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.69%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.08%) GDPR
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 2 (1.39%) EMIR
4 2 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.39%) Docker
5 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.47%) SCCM
2 2 (1.39%) Ansible
2 2 (1.39%) Grafana
2 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) MOM
2 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.50%) SAP
3 8 (5.56%) Adobe
3 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 7 (4.86%) iManage
5 5 (3.47%) IBM
5 5 (3.47%) Informatica
5 5 (3.47%) Snow
5 5 (3.47%) Talend
5 5 (3.47%) VMware
6 4 (2.78%) SYSPRO
7 3 (2.08%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) Cisco
8 2 (1.39%) Cognos
8 2 (1.39%) Infor
8 2 (1.39%) Meraki
8 2 (1.39%) Splunk
9 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.69%) Citrix
9 1 (0.69%) Pega