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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 616 636
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 -78
Permanent jobs citing VBA 273 354 791
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 181 188 424
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,350 £27,650
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,675 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +1.35% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £69,063
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% -0.44%

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 33,900 40,052 91,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 42.32% 54.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,257 26,577 43,330
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 £85,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -16 255 £50,000 -3.24% 149
UK excluding London -92 156 £45,000 +5.88% 58
London +100 112 £65,000 -3.70% 91
Work from Home +42 105 £50,000 - 48
North of England +37 40 £38,750 +5.40% 10
South East -51 32 £45,000 -4.26% 14
Yorkshire +66 31 £37,500 +25.00% 3
East of England -2 28 £45,000 -5.26% 12
South West -11 26 £50,000 +14.29% 8
Midlands -33 17 £41,492 -11.72% 13
East Midlands -12 11 £41,492 +27.67% 3
North West -3 9 £47,500 +8.57% 6
Scotland -76 7 £32,705 -23.41% 4
Wales +3 6 £30,000 -25.00% 1
West Midlands -40 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 12 (4.40%) SAS
2 7 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.83%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.10%) Confluence
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.37%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Documentum
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 144 (52.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (12.09%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (3.66%) SPSS
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.30%) Shopify
2 6 (2.20%) SAP PLM
2 6 (2.20%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (1.10%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) Endur
4 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.37%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.94%) Power Platform
2 32 (11.72%) Azure
3 19 (6.96%) AWS
4 9 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.56%) Serverless
5 7 (2.56%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (1.83%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (1.47%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.10%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.83%) Network Security
2 4 (1.47%) Intranet
3 3 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.37%) LAN
4 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (28.94%) Power BI
2 48 (17.58%) SQL Server
3 29 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (10.26%) Tableau
5 17 (6.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (5.86%) MS Access
6 16 (5.86%) Power Query
7 13 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (4.03%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (3.30%) Oracle BI EE
10 8 (2.93%) PowerPivot
11 6 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.83%) Flink
12 5 (1.83%) OLAP
12 5 (1.83%) QlikView
13 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.10%) Big Data
13 3 (1.10%) Metadata
13 3 (1.10%) MySQL
13 3 (1.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Git
1 11 (4.03%) Visual Studio
2 8 (2.93%) JIRA
3 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 95 (34.80%) Finance
2 72 (26.37%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (25.27%) Social Skills
4 36 (13.19%) Retail
5 22 (8.06%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.03%) Marketing
6 11 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.66%) Banking
7 10 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.20%) Law
9 6 (2.20%) Legal
9 6 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.83%) Back Office
10 5 (1.83%) Front Office
10 5 (1.83%) Military
11 3 (1.10%) Billing
11 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 111 (40.66%) Analyst
2 52 (19.05%) Developer
3 41 (15.02%) Senior
4 27 (9.89%) Data Analyst
5 24 (8.79%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (5.49%) Pricing Analyst
7 14 (5.13%) .NET Developer
7 14 (5.13%) Applications Support
7 14 (5.13%) Lead
8 13 (4.76%) Applications Developer
9 12 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) Systems Analyst
10 11 (4.03%) Senior Pricing Analyst
11 10 (3.66%) Support Analyst
12 9 (3.30%) Commercial Analyst
12 9 (3.30%) Commercial Data Analyst
13 8 (2.93%) Applications Support Analyst
13 8 (2.93%) Data Scientist
14 7 (2.56%) Business Analyst
14 7 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.75%) .NET
2 35 (12.82%) HTML
3 22 (8.06%) CSS
4 13 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 13 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 13 (4.76%) XML
5 12 (4.40%) ASP.NET
6 10 (3.66%) React
7 9 (3.30%) JSON
7 9 (3.30%) Web Services
8 5 (1.83%) Kafka
9 4 (1.47%) Blazor
9 4 (1.47%) jQuery
9 4 (1.47%) Node.js
9 4 (1.47%) RESTful
10 3 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (1.10%) Django
10 3 (1.10%) XSLT
11 2 (0.73%) pytest
11 2 (0.73%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.03%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.66%) EPoS
4 9 (3.30%) Equities
4 9 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.93%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.20%) Derivative
7 6 (2.20%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.83%) FMCG
8 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.47%) CCTV
9 4 (1.47%) PMI
9 4 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.47%) SCADA
10 3 (1.10%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.10%) Smart Meter
10 3 (1.10%) Social Media
11 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.66%) Windows
2 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.47%) Unix
4 3 (1.10%) Android
4 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 53 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (19.05%) Visualisation
4 51 (18.68%) Mathematics
5 49 (17.95%) Analytics
6 44 (16.12%) Data Analysis
7 37 (13.55%) Agile
7 37 (13.55%) Data Visualisation
8 34 (12.45%) Computer Science
9 29 (10.62%) Project Management
10 26 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (8.06%) ETL
13 21 (7.69%) Data Science
13 21 (7.69%) Statistics
14 18 (6.59%) Decision-Making
15 17 (6.23%) Dashboard Development
15 17 (6.23%) DevOps
15 17 (6.23%) ERP
15 17 (6.23%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 197 (72.16%) SQL
2 104 (38.10%) Python
3 42 (15.38%) C#
4 37 (13.55%) T-SQL
5 35 (12.82%) JavaScript
6 29 (10.62%) R
7 25 (9.16%) VB.NET
8 23 (8.42%) VB
9 17 (6.23%) MATLAB
10 14 (5.13%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.03%) C
11 11 (4.03%) Java
12 6 (2.20%) PHP
12 6 (2.20%) VBScript
13 4 (1.47%) C++
13 4 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.47%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (1.47%) VB6
14 1 (0.37%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 71 (26.01%) Degree
2 20 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.40%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.47%) HND
9 3 (1.10%) CFA
9 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.73%) PMP
11 1 (0.37%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.72%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.47%) Terminal Services
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.56%) Control-M
2 5 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.47%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.06%) Oracle
3 10 (3.66%) SAP
4 7 (2.56%) Sage
5 6 (2.20%) Cognos
5 6 (2.20%) Databricks
6 4 (1.47%) Avaya
6 4 (1.47%) Citrix
6 4 (1.47%) Google
6 4 (1.47%) SIMUL8
7 3 (1.10%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.10%) UiPath
8 2 (0.73%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.73%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.73%) Dataiku
8 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 1 (0.37%) Adobe
9 1 (0.37%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce