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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 615 633
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 -73
Permanent jobs citing VBA 274 353 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 0.88% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 181 189 427
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,400 £27,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.70% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £98,500
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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +23 256 £50,000 -3.85% 150
UK excluding London -97 157 £45,000 +5.88% 59
London +93 112 £65,000 -3.70% 92
Work from Home +47 105 £50,000 -1.96% 49
North of England +38 41 £38,750 +5.40% 10
Yorkshire +65 32 £37,500 +25.00% 3
South East -56 32 £45,000 -4.26% 14
East of England -6 28 £45,000 -5.26% 12
South West -13 26 £50,000 +14.29% 9
Midlands -29 17 £41,492 -11.72% 13
East Midlands -7 11 £41,492 +27.67% 3
North West -11 9 £47,500 +8.57% 6
Scotland -78 7 £32,705 -23.41% 4
Wales -1 6 £30,000 -25.00% 1
West Midlands -36 6 £42,500 -15.00% 10

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 13 (4.74%) SAS
2 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.82%) Apache
4 4 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.09%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.09%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Documentum
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 144 (52.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.74%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.65%) SPSS
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.28%) Shopify
2 6 (2.19%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.19%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.09%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (1.09%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.36%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.83%) Power Platform
2 32 (11.68%) Azure
3 19 (6.93%) AWS
4 9 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.55%) Serverless
5 7 (2.55%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (1.82%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.46%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (1.46%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.09%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Network Security
2 4 (1.46%) Intranet
3 3 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
4 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (28.83%) Power BI
2 48 (17.52%) SQL Server
3 29 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (10.22%) Tableau
5 17 (6.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (5.84%) MS Access
6 16 (5.84%) Power Query
7 13 (4.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (4.38%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (3.28%) Oracle BI EE
10 8 (2.92%) PowerPivot
11 6 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.82%) Flink
12 5 (1.82%) OLAP
12 5 (1.82%) QlikView
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.09%) Big Data
13 3 (1.09%) Metadata
13 3 (1.09%) MySQL
13 3 (1.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.01%) Git
1 11 (4.01%) Visual Studio
2 8 (2.92%) JIRA
3 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 95 (34.67%) Finance
2 72 (26.28%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (25.18%) Social Skills
4 36 (13.14%) Retail
5 22 (8.03%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.01%) Marketing
6 11 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.65%) Banking
7 10 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.19%) Law
9 6 (2.19%) Legal
9 6 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Back Office
10 5 (1.82%) Front Office
10 5 (1.82%) Military
11 3 (1.09%) Billing
11 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 112 (40.88%) Analyst
2 52 (18.98%) Developer
3 42 (15.33%) Senior
4 27 (9.85%) Data Analyst
5 25 (9.12%) Senior Analyst
6 16 (5.84%) Pricing Analyst
7 14 (5.11%) .NET Developer
7 14 (5.11%) Applications Support
7 14 (5.11%) Lead
8 13 (4.74%) Applications Developer
9 12 (4.38%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.38%) Senior Pricing Analyst
9 12 (4.38%) Systems Analyst
10 10 (3.65%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.28%) Commercial Analyst
11 9 (3.28%) Commercial Data Analyst
12 8 (2.92%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (2.92%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.55%) Business Analyst
13 7 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.69%) .NET
2 35 (12.77%) HTML
3 22 (8.03%) CSS
4 13 (4.74%) .NET Framework
4 13 (4.74%) AngularJS
4 13 (4.74%) XML
5 12 (4.38%) ASP.NET
6 10 (3.65%) React
7 9 (3.28%) JSON
7 9 (3.28%) Web Services
8 5 (1.82%) Kafka
9 4 (1.46%) Blazor
9 4 (1.46%) jQuery
9 4 (1.46%) Node.js
9 4 (1.46%) RESTful
10 3 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (1.09%) Django
10 3 (1.09%) XSLT
11 2 (0.73%) MDX
11 2 (0.73%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.65%) EPoS
4 9 (3.28%) Equities
4 9 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.92%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.19%) Derivative
7 6 (2.19%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.82%) FMCG
8 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.46%) CCTV
9 4 (1.46%) PMI
9 4 (1.46%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.46%) SCADA
10 3 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.09%) Smart Meter
10 3 (1.09%) Social Media
11 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.65%) Windows
2 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.46%) Unix
4 3 (1.09%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (19.34%) Visualisation
3 52 (18.98%) Mathematics
4 49 (17.88%) Analytics
5 44 (16.06%) Data Analysis
6 38 (13.87%) Data Visualisation
7 37 (13.50%) Agile
8 34 (12.41%) Computer Science
9 29 (10.58%) Project Management
10 27 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (8.03%) Data Science
12 22 (8.03%) ETL
13 21 (7.66%) Statistics
14 18 (6.57%) Decision-Making
14 18 (6.57%) Mathematical Modelling
15 17 (6.20%) Dashboard Development
15 17 (6.20%) DevOps
15 17 (6.20%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 198 (72.26%) SQL
2 105 (38.32%) Python
3 42 (15.33%) C#
4 37 (13.50%) T-SQL
5 35 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 29 (10.58%) R
7 25 (9.12%) VB.NET
8 23 (8.39%) VB
9 17 (6.20%) MATLAB
10 14 (5.11%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.01%) C
11 11 (4.01%) Java
12 6 (2.19%) PHP
12 6 (2.19%) VBScript
13 4 (1.46%) C++
13 4 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.46%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (1.46%) VB6
14 1 (0.36%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 71 (25.91%) Degree
2 20 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.38%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.19%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.46%) HND
9 3 (1.09%) CFA
9 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.73%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.46%) Terminal Services
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.55%) Control-M
2 5 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (25.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.03%) Oracle
3 10 (3.65%) SAP
4 7 (2.55%) Sage
5 6 (2.19%) Cognos
5 6 (2.19%) Databricks
6 4 (1.46%) Avaya
6 4 (1.46%) Citrix
6 4 (1.46%) Google
6 4 (1.46%) SIMUL8
7 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.09%) UiPath
8 2 (0.73%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.73%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.73%) Dataiku
8 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 1 (0.36%) Adobe
9 1 (0.36%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce