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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 615 642
Rank change year-on-year -35 +27 -96
Permanent jobs citing VBA 261 378 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 0.89% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 177 199 418
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,850 £27,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £63,000 £72,500 £68,124
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -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 33,374 42,455 88,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.94% 43.29% 54.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24,973 27,118 43,431
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,150 £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 24 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 24 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 -4 242 £50,000 -3.85% 168
UK excluding London -109 151 £45,000 +5.88% 83
London +65 104 £66,250 -2.80% 104
Work from Home +69 100 £50,000 - 55
North of England +39 37 £38,750 +5.40% 13
South East -31 31 £45,000 +5.88% 38
East of England +13 29 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Yorkshire +76 28 £37,500 +25.00% 7
South West -7 25 £50,000 +14.29% 6
Midlands -40 16 £41,492 -11.72% 15
East Midlands -5 10 £41,492 +27.67% 1
North West +1 9 £47,500 +8.57% 5
Scotland -72 7 £32,705 -23.41% 4
Wales +6 6 £30,000 -25.00% 3
West Midlands -17 6 £42,500 -15.00% 11

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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.92%) Apache
2 5 (1.92%) SAS
3 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Documentum
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 143 (54.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (12.64%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.98%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.83%) SPSS
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.45%) Shopify
2 6 (2.30%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.30%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.15%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.77%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.38%) Endur
5 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.38%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 76 (29.12%) Power Platform
2 33 (12.64%) Azure
3 21 (8.05%) AWS
4 10 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.68%) Serverless
6 7 (2.68%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.53%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.53%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.53%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.15%) GCP
9 3 (1.15%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) Network Security
2 4 (1.53%) Intranet
2 4 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.38%) LAN
3 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (29.12%) Power BI
2 47 (18.01%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (11.11%) Tableau
4 17 (6.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (5.75%) MS Access
5 15 (5.75%) Power Query
6 13 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.45%) Oracle BI EE
7 9 (3.45%) PowerPivot
8 6 (2.30%) QlikView
8 6 (2.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (1.92%) Flink
9 5 (1.92%) OLAP
10 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.15%) Big Data
11 3 (1.15%) Metadata
11 3 (1.15%) MySQL
11 3 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Git
2 10 (3.83%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.07%) JIRA
4 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 94 (36.02%) Finance
2 71 (27.20%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (25.29%) Social Skills
4 36 (13.79%) Retail
5 22 (8.43%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.83%) Banking
7 10 (3.83%) Marketing
8 9 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.30%) Law
10 6 (2.30%) Legal
10 6 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.92%) Back Office
11 5 (1.92%) Front Office
11 5 (1.92%) Military
12 3 (1.15%) Billing
12 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.77%) Automotive
13 2 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 102 (39.08%) Analyst
2 50 (19.16%) Developer
3 35 (13.41%) Senior
4 26 (9.96%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.51%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (5.75%) Lead
7 14 (5.36%) .NET Developer
8 12 (4.60%) Applications Support
9 11 (4.21%) Applications Developer
9 11 (4.21%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.21%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (3.45%) Commercial Analyst
10 9 (3.45%) Commercial Data Analyst
10 9 (3.45%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.07%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.07%) Data Scientist
11 8 (3.07%) Pricing Analyst
12 7 (2.68%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (2.68%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (2.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.48%) .NET
2 33 (12.64%) HTML
3 22 (8.43%) CSS
4 14 (5.36%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.98%) .NET Framework
5 13 (4.98%) ASP.NET
5 13 (4.98%) XML
6 11 (4.21%) React
7 9 (3.45%) JSON
7 9 (3.45%) Web Services
8 5 (1.92%) Kafka
9 4 (1.53%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (1.53%) Blazor
9 4 (1.53%) Django
9 4 (1.53%) jQuery
9 4 (1.53%) Node.js
9 4 (1.53%) RESTful
10 3 (1.15%) Pandas
10 3 (1.15%) pytest
10 3 (1.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.75%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.83%) EPoS
2 10 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.07%) Equities
4 8 (3.07%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.30%) Derivative
6 6 (2.30%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.92%) FMCG
7 5 (1.92%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.53%) CCTV
8 4 (1.53%) PMI
8 4 (1.53%) SCADA
9 3 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.15%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.15%) Social Media
10 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.45%) Windows
2 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
2 52 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (19.16%) Analytics
4 45 (17.24%) Mathematics
5 44 (16.86%) Data Analysis
5 44 (16.86%) Visualisation
6 37 (14.18%) Agile
7 36 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 29 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
8 29 (11.11%) Project Management
9 24 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (8.81%) ETL
11 22 (8.43%) Statistics
12 19 (7.28%) Decision-Making
12 19 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (6.90%) DevOps
14 17 (6.51%) Dashboard Development
15 16 (6.13%) ERP
15 16 (6.13%) Machine Learning
16 15 (5.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 185 (70.88%) SQL
2 97 (37.16%) Python
3 43 (16.48%) C#
4 35 (13.41%) T-SQL
5 34 (13.03%) JavaScript
6 30 (11.49%) R
7 25 (9.58%) VB.NET
8 23 (8.81%) VB
9 17 (6.51%) MATLAB
10 14 (5.36%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.21%) C
12 10 (3.83%) Java
13 6 (2.30%) PHP
13 6 (2.30%) VBScript
14 4 (1.53%) C++
14 4 (1.53%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (1.53%) VB6
15 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.38%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 72 (27.59%) Degree
2 20 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.60%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.07%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.53%) HND
9 3 (1.15%) CFA
9 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.77%) PMP
11 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.77%) QA
3 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.53%) Terminal Services
2 2 (0.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.30%) Control-M
2 5 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.53%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.81%) Oracle
3 10 (3.83%) SAP
4 7 (2.68%) Sage
5 6 (2.30%) Databricks
6 5 (1.92%) Cognos
7 4 (1.53%) Avaya
7 4 (1.53%) Citrix
7 4 (1.53%) Google
7 4 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.53%) SIMUL8
8 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.15%) UiPath
9 2 (0.77%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.77%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.77%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.77%) IBM
10 1 (0.38%) Adobe
10 1 (0.38%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.38%) Salesforce