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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 636 596 619
Rank change year-on-year -40 +23 -68
Permanent jobs citing VBA 255 394 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 0.92% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 176 212 406
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,325 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,625 £40,000 £36,250
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £94,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -0.87%

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 33,193 42,967 86,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.30% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,893 27,483 43,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,100 £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 £107,500 £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 17 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 17 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 +2 236 £50,000 -4.31% 140
UK excluding London -105 151 £45,000 +5.88% 59
Work from Home +47 99 £48,750 -2.50% 59
London +82 98 £67,500 -1.92% 87
North of England +40 35 £40,000 +8.80% 8
South East -56 31 £45,000 +5.88% 17
East of England +12 29 £45,000 -5.26% 8
South West -2 27 £47,500 +5.56% 5
Yorkshire +65 26 £37,500 +25.00% 2
Midlands -34 16 £41,492 -11.72% 14
East Midlands -6 10 £41,492 +27.67% 2
North West -2 9 £47,500 +8.57% 5
Scotland -67 7 £32,705 -23.41% 5
Wales +3 6 £30,000 -25.00% 2
West Midlands -17 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 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.96%) Apache
3 4 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.18%) Confluence
4 3 (1.18%) 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
1 142 (55.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (12.55%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.10%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.92%) SPSS
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Shopify
2 6 (2.35%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.35%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.18%) 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 76 (29.80%) Power Platform
2 32 (12.55%) Azure
3 21 (8.24%) AWS
4 9 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.14%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.75%) Serverless
7 5 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.57%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.57%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.57%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.57%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.96%) Network Security
2 4 (1.57%) Intranet
2 4 (1.57%) 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 76 (29.80%) Power BI
2 46 (18.04%) SQL Server
3 31 (12.16%) Tableau
4 28 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (5.88%) MS Access
6 15 (5.88%) Power Query
7 13 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (4.31%) Oracle BI EE
9 9 (3.53%) PowerPivot
10 6 (2.35%) QlikView
10 6 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.96%) Flink
11 5 (1.96%) OLAP
12 4 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.57%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.18%) Big Data
13 3 (1.18%) Metadata
13 3 (1.18%) MySQL
14 2 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (4.31%) Git
1 11 (4.31%) Visual Studio
2 8 (3.14%) JIRA
3 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.39%) NUnit
4 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 93 (36.47%) Finance
2 72 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (25.88%) Social Skills
4 38 (14.90%) Retail
5 22 (8.63%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.31%) Marketing
8 10 (3.92%) Banking
9 8 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.35%) Front Office
11 6 (2.35%) Law
11 6 (2.35%) Legal
11 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.96%) Back Office
12 5 (1.96%) Military
13 3 (1.18%) Billing
13 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (38.04%) Analyst
2 51 (20.00%) Developer
3 33 (12.94%) Senior
4 27 (10.59%) Data Analyst
5 15 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 15 (5.88%) Lead
6 13 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (4.31%) Applications Developer
7 11 (4.31%) Applications Support
7 11 (4.31%) Systems Analyst
8 10 (3.92%) Commercial Analyst
8 10 (3.92%) Commercial Data Analyst
9 9 (3.53%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.14%) Data Scientist
10 8 (3.14%) Support Analyst
11 7 (2.75%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.75%) Customer Analyst
11 7 (2.75%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (2.75%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.35%) Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.47%) .NET
2 34 (13.33%) HTML
3 22 (8.63%) CSS
4 14 (5.49%) .NET Framework
4 14 (5.49%) AngularJS
5 13 (5.10%) ASP.NET
6 12 (4.71%) XML
7 11 (4.31%) React
8 9 (3.53%) JSON
8 9 (3.53%) Web Services
9 5 (1.96%) Blazor
9 5 (1.96%) Kafka
10 4 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (1.57%) Django
10 4 (1.57%) jQuery
10 4 (1.57%) Node.js
10 4 (1.57%) RESTful
11 3 (1.18%) Pandas
11 3 (1.18%) pytest
11 3 (1.18%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.92%) EPoS
3 9 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.14%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.75%) Equities
5 7 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.35%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.96%) Derivative
7 5 (1.96%) FMCG
7 5 (1.96%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.57%) CCTV
8 4 (1.57%) PMI
8 4 (1.57%) SCADA
9 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.18%) Social Media
10 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.14%) Windows
2 5 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 51 (20.00%) Analytics
2 51 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (17.25%) Data Analysis
4 42 (16.47%) Visualisation
5 41 (16.08%) Mathematics
6 38 (14.90%) Agile
7 34 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 29 (11.37%) Project Management
9 26 (10.20%) Data Visualisation
10 24 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.02%) ETL
12 22 (8.63%) Statistics
13 19 (7.45%) Decision-Making
14 18 (7.06%) DevOps
15 17 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
16 16 (6.27%) ERP
16 16 (6.27%) Machine Learning
16 16 (6.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 178 (69.80%) SQL
2 93 (36.47%) Python
3 43 (16.86%) C#
4 35 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.73%) T-SQL
5 30 (11.76%) R
6 25 (9.80%) VB.NET
7 24 (9.41%) VB
8 17 (6.67%) MATLAB
9 14 (5.49%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.31%) C
11 10 (3.92%) Java
12 7 (2.75%) PHP
13 6 (2.35%) VBScript
14 4 (1.57%) C++
14 4 (1.57%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (1.57%) VB6
15 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.39%) F#
16 1 (0.39%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 70 (27.45%) Degree
2 20 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.71%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.14%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.57%) HND
9 3 (1.18%) CFA
9 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.78%) PMP
11 1 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.18%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.57%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.96%) Control-M
1 5 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (27.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.41%) Oracle
3 10 (3.92%) SAP
4 7 (2.75%) Sage
5 6 (2.35%) Databricks
6 5 (1.96%) Cognos
6 5 (1.96%) Google
7 4 (1.57%) Avaya
7 4 (1.57%) Citrix
7 4 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.57%) SIMUL8
8 3 (1.18%) UiPath
9 2 (0.78%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.78%) Bloomberg
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%) Telerik