The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 20 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 Belfast 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VBA 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.429% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.290% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
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
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
131 52 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 62.38% 32.91% 45.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 15 42
Average daily rate £325 £275 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -17.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £12.42 £36.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.97% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
County Antrim

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) WinForms
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) WF
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) WinForms
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) WF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Database Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL