VBA Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VBA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 193 175
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 +42
Permanent jobs citing VBA 18 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.57% 0.55% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile - £36,625 £43,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,063 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,750 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -22.22% +93.97%
75th Percentile £50,000 £49,063 £63,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.11%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 701 1,090 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.26% 26.32% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 568 552 1,025
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,344 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +3.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

VBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VBA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

VBA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VBA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VBA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VBA

VBA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VBA in the West Midlands

VBA
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Staffordshire +3 11 £50,000 +42.86% 2
Warwickshire - 4 £41,250 - 2
Birmingham +24 3 £63,076 - 1
VBA
England

VBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 5 (27.78%) PowerApps
3 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Python Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Developer
2 5 (27.78%) VBA Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Power BI Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Development Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) PHP Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Change Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) iSeries
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 2 (11.11%) Change Management
7 2 (11.11%) PRINCE
7 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
7 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PHP
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) PMP
2 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Blue Prism
2 2 (11.11%) Pega
3 1 (5.56%) Symantec