The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 24 26 26
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing VBA 3 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.875% 1.053% 1.538%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.692% 8.696% 6.977%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+51.20% -
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
39 23 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 24.38% 12.11% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 16
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £173 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £371 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
Average hourly rate £36.00 - £16.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.14 - £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 - £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VBA
Scotland

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VBA across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Aberdeen VBA Jobs Demand Trend

VBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VBA across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBA across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Aberdeen VBA Daily Rate Histogram

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBA across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing VBA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VBA.

1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) WinForms
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) MS Access
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing VBA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) WinForms
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) VBA Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
2 1 (25.00%) C
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle