The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 21 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 Brighton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 25 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 1.408% 0.392% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.703% 0.971% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £105 -
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
74 103 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 52.11% 40.39% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 26
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £182 £205 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
East Sussex

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (50.00%) SAS
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Informatica
2 3 (50.00%) Teradata
2 3 (50.00%) Taleo
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) MS Access
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Excel Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Excel VBA Developer
3 1 (16.67%) MI Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) VBA Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Teradata