Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VBA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VBA over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 657 626
Rank change year-on-year +192 -31 -64
Permanent jobs citing VBA 380 155 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.24% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 0.59% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 96 126 513
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +4.19% +3.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,938 £76,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -

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 24,789 26,083 77,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 40.78% 50.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,055 20,309 40,777
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,900 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £100,502
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for VBA in the UK

VBA
Top 17 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 20 September 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 +150 336 £50,000 -4.76% 261
UK excluding London +136 266 £45,000 -5.26% 218
London +60 106 £63,750 +2.00% 220
North of England +72 82 £33,000 -24.57% 8
Work from Home +43 75 £50,000 -9.09% 340
South East +8 59 £45,000 -7.22% 185
South West +37 52 £50,000 +33.33% 7
North West +23 46 £33,000 -26.67% 7
Yorkshire +42 29 £67,500 +68.75% 1
Midlands -7 27 £50,000 +3.09% 11
Scotland -17 26 - - 2
East Midlands -18 17 £50,000 +53.85% 5
West Midlands -15 10 £42,500 -19.05% 6
East of England -26 10 - - 6
Wales +41 7 £30,000 -40.00% 3
North East - 7 £26,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1

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 22 (5.79%) SAS
2 17 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.05%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.26%) Appian
4 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 138 (36.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (15.53%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (7.63%) iTrent
2 11 (2.89%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 8 (2.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.26%) HFM
4 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.26%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.26%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.26%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 72 (18.95%) Power Platform
2 29 (7.63%) SuccessFactors
3 26 (6.84%) Azure
4 18 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.21%) PowerApps
6 10 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 7 (1.84%) AWS
7 7 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.58%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.05%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.79%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.53%) Collibra
11 2 (0.53%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.26%) DHCP
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Intranet
2 1 (0.26%) LAN
2 1 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.26%) Telnet
2 1 (0.26%) VPN
2 1 (0.26%) WAN
2 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.89%) Power BI
2 47 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (5.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (5.00%) Tableau
5 17 (4.47%) Geospatial Data
5 17 (4.47%) Power Query
6 13 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (2.37%) MS Access
7 9 (2.37%) PowerPivot
8 6 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.32%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (1.05%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.79%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.79%) Metadata
11 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.53%) Big Data
12 2 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (2.37%) JIRA
2 3 (0.79%) Git
3 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.26%) Subversion
4 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 107 (28.16%) Analytical Skills
2 93 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 65 (17.11%) Finance
4 38 (10.00%) Legal
4 38 (10.00%) Retail
5 33 (8.68%) Pharmaceutical
6 21 (5.53%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.63%) Marketing
10 8 (2.11%) Banking
10 8 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.58%) Back Office
12 5 (1.32%) Front Office
13 4 (1.05%) Law
13 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Automotive
14 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.53%) Billing
15 2 (0.53%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 137 (36.05%) Analyst
2 126 (33.16%) Lead
3 111 (29.21%) Principal Engineer
4 46 (12.11%) Senior
5 39 (10.26%) Senior Analyst
6 38 (10.00%) Developer
7 32 (8.42%) Analytics Manager
7 32 (8.42%) Data Analytics Manager
8 30 (7.89%) HR Analyst
9 23 (6.05%) Data Analyst
10 19 (5.00%) Pricing Analyst
11 17 (4.47%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.47%) Senior Pricing Analyst
12 14 (3.68%) Applications Support
13 12 (3.16%) Financial Analyst
14 11 (2.89%) .NET Developer
14 11 (2.89%) Consultant
14 11 (2.89%) ERP Specialist
14 11 (2.89%) Support Analyst
15 9 (2.37%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.53%) .NET
2 13 (3.42%) HTML
3 11 (2.89%) .NET Framework
4 8 (2.11%) XML
5 3 (0.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (0.79%) JSON
5 3 (0.79%) Middleware
5 3 (0.79%) XSLT
6 2 (0.53%) CSS
6 2 (0.53%) jQuery
7 1 (0.26%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.26%) Blazor
7 1 (0.26%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.26%) React
7 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.47%) Onboarding
2 14 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.63%) Equities
4 9 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.11%) SCADA
6 7 (1.84%) Derivative
6 7 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.58%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.32%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.05%) iPad
9 4 (1.05%) iPhone
10 3 (0.79%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.79%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (0.79%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.79%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.53%) Smart Meter
12 1 (0.26%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.58%) Windows
2 12 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.11%) Unix
4 4 (1.05%) Android
4 4 (1.05%) Linux
5 2 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Rocky
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (45.26%) Data Analysis
2 155 (40.79%) Mathematics
3 141 (37.11%) Data Science
4 115 (30.26%) Task Automation
5 114 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 111 (29.21%) CAD
7 89 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (22.37%) Analytics
9 65 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (13.16%) Visualisation
11 48 (12.63%) Requirements Gathering
12 45 (11.84%) Strategic Thinking
13 44 (11.58%) Data Analytics
14 40 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
14 40 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (9.47%) Logistics
15 36 (9.47%) Workflow
16 32 (8.42%) Project Management
16 32 (8.42%) Validation
17 31 (8.16%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 206 (54.21%) Python
2 167 (43.95%) SQL
3 22 (5.79%) T-SQL
4 19 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.47%) C#
5 17 (4.47%) R
6 14 (3.68%) VB.NET
7 11 (2.89%) VB
8 10 (2.63%) MATLAB
8 10 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.05%) Bash
10 4 (1.05%) C++
10 4 (1.05%) Java
10 4 (1.05%) Julia
10 4 (1.05%) PHP
11 2 (0.53%) VBScript
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.26%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 216 (56.84%) Degree
2 111 (29.21%) Chartered Engineer
3 18 (4.74%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.79%) APMP
8 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) MBA
9 1 (0.26%) ACCA
9 1 (0.26%) CIMA
9 1 (0.26%) HND
9 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 34 (8.95%) QA
3 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.84%) Control-M
2 2 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 80 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.16%) SAP
3 11 (2.89%) Oracle
4 9 (2.37%) Infor
5 8 (2.11%) Cognos
6 7 (1.84%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.84%) Databricks
7 6 (1.58%) Google
8 4 (1.05%) Apple
8 4 (1.05%) IBM
9 3 (0.79%) Avature
9 3 (0.79%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.79%) Citrix
9 3 (0.79%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.53%) Adobe
10 2 (0.53%) Sage
11 1 (0.26%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.26%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.26%) Murex
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat