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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 654 603 583
Rank change year-on-year -51 -20 -40
Permanent jobs citing VBA 254 419 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.40% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.93% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 182 228 411
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,375 £40,000 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £76,250 £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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 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 3 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 -25 231 £50,000 -4.76% 135
UK excluding London -73 158 £45,000 +8.43% 51
Work from Home +55 93 £47,500 -5.00% 40
London +60 90 £67,500 -1.92% 84
North of England +40 36 £40,000 +11.47% 10
South East -47 31 £45,000 +5.88% 11
East of England +16 29 £45,000 -5.26% 6
South West -9 28 £42,750 -6.56% 1
Yorkshire +69 27 £37,500 +25.00% 5
Midlands -12 17 £41,492 -17.02% 16
East Midlands +2 11 £41,492 - 2
Scotland -72 11 £58,141 +36.16% 4
North West +6 9 £47,500 +13.10% 4
Wales -3 6 £30,000 -25.00% 2
West Midlands -16 6 £42,500 -15.00% 14

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 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.36%) Confluence
3 5 (1.97%) Apache
3 5 (1.97%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Documentum
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 141 (55.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.12%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.94%) SPSS
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.54%) Shopify
2 6 (2.36%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.36%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.18%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.79%) 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 72 (28.35%) Power Platform
2 26 (10.24%) Azure
3 21 (8.27%) AWS
4 9 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.54%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.76%) Serverless
7 5 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.97%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.97%) Google Analytics
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%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.97%) 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 72 (28.35%) Power BI
2 42 (16.54%) SQL Server
3 33 (12.99%) Tableau
4 24 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.30%) MS Access
6 15 (5.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (5.12%) Oracle BI EE
7 13 (5.12%) Power Query
8 11 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.76%) PowerPivot
10 6 (2.36%) MySQL
10 6 (2.36%) QlikView
10 6 (2.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.97%) Flink
11 5 (1.97%) OLAP
11 5 (1.97%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.18%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.51%) Git
2 11 (4.33%) JIRA
2 11 (4.33%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.39%) NUnit
4 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 92 (36.22%) Finance
2 76 (29.92%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (25.20%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.75%) Retail
5 21 (8.27%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.72%) Banking
8 11 (4.33%) Marketing
9 8 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.36%) Front Office
10 6 (2.36%) Law
10 6 (2.36%) Legal
11 5 (1.97%) Back Office
11 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.97%) Military
12 3 (1.18%) Billing
12 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 98 (38.58%) Analyst
2 49 (19.29%) Developer
3 37 (14.57%) Senior
4 28 (11.02%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.69%) Lead
6 15 (5.91%) .NET Developer
7 14 (5.51%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.33%) Commercial Analyst
8 11 (4.33%) Commercial Data Analyst
8 11 (4.33%) Systems Analyst
9 10 (3.94%) Applications Developer
10 9 (3.54%) Applications Support
11 8 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.15%) Customer Analyst
11 8 (3.15%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.76%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.76%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (2.76%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.36%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.36%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.93%) .NET
2 38 (14.96%) HTML
3 25 (9.84%) CSS
4 17 (6.69%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.51%) .NET Framework
5 14 (5.51%) React
5 14 (5.51%) XML
6 13 (5.12%) ASP.NET
7 9 (3.54%) JSON
7 9 (3.54%) Web Services
8 7 (2.76%) Node.js
8 7 (2.76%) RESTful
9 5 (1.97%) Blazor
9 5 (1.97%) Kafka
10 4 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (1.57%) Django
10 4 (1.57%) jQuery
11 3 (1.18%) Express.js
11 3 (1.18%) WCF
11 3 (1.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.94%) EPoS
1 10 (3.94%) Onboarding
1 10 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.15%) Fixed Income
3 7 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.36%) Derivative
4 6 (2.36%) Equities
4 6 (2.36%) Market Risk
4 6 (2.36%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.97%) FMCG
6 4 (1.57%) CCTV
6 4 (1.57%) PMI
6 4 (1.57%) SCADA
7 3 (1.18%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.18%) Social Media
8 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.36%) Windows
2 5 (1.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.95%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (20.08%) Analytics
4 43 (16.93%) Data Analysis
5 41 (16.14%) Agile
5 41 (16.14%) Visualisation
6 38 (14.96%) Mathematics
7 30 (11.81%) Computer Science
8 27 (10.63%) Project Management
9 25 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.84%) Data Visualisation
10 21 (8.27%) ETL
11 19 (7.48%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (7.48%) Decision-Making
11 19 (7.48%) Machine Learning
11 19 (7.48%) Statistics
12 16 (6.30%) Dashboard Development
12 16 (6.30%) DevOps
12 16 (6.30%) Mentoring
13 15 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (67.72%) SQL
2 88 (34.65%) Python
3 47 (18.50%) C#
4 37 (14.57%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.60%) T-SQL
6 26 (10.24%) R
7 25 (9.84%) VB.NET
8 24 (9.45%) VB
9 18 (7.09%) MATLAB
10 12 (4.72%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.33%) C
12 10 (3.94%) Java
13 8 (3.15%) PHP
14 6 (2.36%) VBScript
15 5 (1.97%) C++
16 4 (1.57%) Ladder Logic
16 4 (1.57%) VB6
17 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.39%) F#
18 1 (0.39%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 65 (25.59%) Degree
2 21 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.72%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.57%) CFA
7 4 (1.57%) HND
8 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.79%) PMP
10 1 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.57%) QA
3 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.57%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 69 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.02%) Oracle
3 10 (3.94%) SAP
4 7 (2.76%) Sage
5 6 (2.36%) Google
6 5 (1.97%) Cognos
7 4 (1.57%) Avaya
7 4 (1.57%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.57%) Citrix
7 4 (1.57%) Databricks
7 4 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.57%) SIMUL8
8 3 (1.18%) UiPath
9 2 (0.79%) Advent
9 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.79%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.79%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.79%) FactSet
9 2 (0.79%) IBM
10 1 (0.39%) Telerik