Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VBA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VBA over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 604 595
Rank change year-on-year -45 -9 -37
Permanent jobs citing VBA 256 404 808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 0.92% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 179 220 402
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £66,813
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% +3.75% -1.66%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBA is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBA.

Salary trend for VBA in the UK

VBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 15 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 10 May 2024. 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 -10 235 £50,000 -4.76% 144
UK excluding London -102 155 £45,000 +8.43% 53
Work from Home +33 96 £47,500 -5.00% 45
London +70 95 £67,500 -1.92% 93
North of England +38 36 £40,000 +8.80% 7
South East -47 31 £45,000 +2.86% 14
East of England +19 29 £45,000 -5.26% 6
South West -5 28 £42,750 -6.56% 6
Yorkshire +78 27 £37,500 +25.00% 2
Midlands -43 16 £41,492 -11.72% 14
East Midlands -11 10 £41,492 +27.67% 2
North West +3 9 £47,500 +11.76% 5
Scotland -67 9 £32,705 -23.41% 5
Wales -3 6 £30,000 -25.00% 2
West Midlands -32 6 £42,500 -15.00% 12

VBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) Apache
2 5 (1.95%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.56%) Confluence
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Documentum
5 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 143 (55.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.08%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.91%) SPSS
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Shopify
2 6 (2.34%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.34%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.17%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.39%) Endur
5 1 (0.39%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.39%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.91%) Power Platform
2 29 (11.33%) Azure
3 21 (8.20%) AWS
4 9 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.52%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.73%) Serverless
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.95%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.56%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.56%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) Network Security
2 4 (1.56%) Intranet
2 4 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.39%) LAN
3 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.39%) VPN
3 1 (0.39%) WAN
3 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (28.91%) Power BI
2 43 (16.80%) SQL Server
3 34 (13.28%) Tableau
4 27 (10.55%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (5.86%) MS Access
7 13 (5.08%) Oracle BI EE
7 13 (5.08%) Power Query
8 12 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (3.13%) PowerPivot
10 6 (2.34%) QlikView
10 6 (2.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.95%) Flink
11 5 (1.95%) OLAP
11 5 (1.95%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.56%) MySQL
13 3 (1.17%) Big Data
13 3 (1.17%) Metadata
14 2 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Git
2 11 (4.30%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.52%) JIRA
4 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.39%) NUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 93 (36.33%) Finance
2 75 (29.30%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (25.78%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.63%) Retail
5 21 (8.20%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.30%) Banking
7 11 (4.30%) Marketing
8 8 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.34%) Front Office
9 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.34%) Law
9 6 (2.34%) Legal
10 5 (1.95%) Back Office
10 5 (1.95%) Military
11 3 (1.17%) Billing
11 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 99 (38.67%) Analyst
2 49 (19.14%) Developer
3 35 (13.67%) Senior
4 28 (10.94%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.64%) Lead
6 15 (5.86%) .NET Developer
7 14 (5.47%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.30%) Commercial Analyst
8 11 (4.30%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 11 (4.30%) Systems Analyst
9 10 (3.91%) Applications Developer
9 10 (3.91%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.13%) Customer Analyst
10 8 (3.13%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.73%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (2.73%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.73%) Support Analyst
12 6 (2.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.41%) .NET
2 35 (13.67%) HTML
3 23 (8.98%) CSS
4 15 (5.86%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.47%) .NET Framework
6 13 (5.08%) ASP.NET
7 12 (4.69%) React
7 12 (4.69%) XML
8 9 (3.52%) JSON
8 9 (3.52%) Web Services
9 5 (1.95%) Blazor
9 5 (1.95%) Kafka
9 5 (1.95%) Node.js
9 5 (1.95%) RESTful
10 4 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (1.56%) Django
10 4 (1.56%) jQuery
11 3 (1.17%) Pandas
11 3 (1.17%) pytest
11 3 (1.17%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.08%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.91%) EPoS
3 9 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.34%) Equities
6 6 (2.34%) Market Risk
6 6 (2.34%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.95%) Derivative
7 5 (1.95%) FMCG
8 4 (1.56%) CCTV
8 4 (1.56%) PMI
8 4 (1.56%) SCADA
9 3 (1.17%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.17%) Social Media
10 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.73%) Windows
2 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.91%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (20.70%) Analytics
2 53 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (16.80%) Data Analysis
3 43 (16.80%) Visualisation
4 40 (15.63%) Mathematics
5 39 (15.23%) Agile
6 32 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 28 (10.94%) Project Management
8 26 (10.16%) Data Visualisation
9 24 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (8.59%) ETL
11 21 (8.20%) Statistics
12 19 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (7.42%) Decision-Making
13 17 (6.64%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (6.64%) DevOps
13 17 (6.64%) Machine Learning
14 16 (6.25%) Mentoring
15 15 (5.86%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 177 (69.14%) SQL
2 92 (35.94%) Python
3 44 (17.19%) C#
4 35 (13.67%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.89%) T-SQL
6 29 (11.33%) R
7 25 (9.77%) VB.NET
8 24 (9.38%) VB
9 18 (7.03%) MATLAB
10 13 (5.08%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.30%) C
12 10 (3.91%) Java
13 8 (3.13%) PHP
14 6 (2.34%) VBScript
15 4 (1.56%) C++
15 4 (1.56%) Ladder Logic
15 4 (1.56%) VB6
16 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.39%) F#
17 1 (0.39%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 69 (26.95%) Degree
2 20 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.69%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.34%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.56%) CFA
8 4 (1.56%) HND
9 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.78%) PMP
11 1 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.56%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.56%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.56%) Control-M
2 4 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.16%) Oracle
3 10 (3.91%) SAP
4 7 (2.73%) Sage
5 6 (2.34%) Google
6 5 (1.95%) Cognos
6 5 (1.95%) Databricks
7 4 (1.56%) Avaya
7 4 (1.56%) Citrix
7 4 (1.56%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.56%) SIMUL8
8 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.17%) UiPath
9 2 (0.78%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.78%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.78%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.39%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.39%) OpenText
10 1 (0.39%) Salesforce