The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Bristol 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 44 47 32
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -15
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 17 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.402% 1.977% 3.438%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.333% 6.250% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 19
Average daily rate £275 £310 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.29% +18.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+35.45% +10.00%
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
150 272 209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 30.12% 31.63% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 160 112
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £415 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 13
Average hourly rate £40.00 £23.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.91% -38.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £21.00 £14.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VBA
South West

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 14 (73.68%) MS Excel
2 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
3 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 10 (52.63%) Business Analysis
4 7 (36.84%) Finance
5 6 (31.58%) Business Objects
5 6 (31.58%) ETL
5 6 (31.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (26.32%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) Change Management
7 4 (21.05%) VB
7 4 (21.05%) C#
8 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
8 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
8 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (15.79%) Banking
9 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (10.53%) Degree
9 2 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
9 2 (10.53%) Data Validation
9 2 (10.53%) Data Mapping
9 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (10.53%) Kimball Methodology
9 2 (10.53%) Inmon Methodology
9 2 (10.53%) Data Transformation
9 2 (10.53%) Validation
9 2 (10.53%) PHP

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.263%) Flash
Applications
1 14 (73.68%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (26.32%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (10.53%) Star Schema
5 2 (10.53%) DTS
6 1 (5.263%) SAP Data Services
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) MI Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Project Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Information Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Business Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Report Writer
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Business Objects Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Business Objects Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Business Analysis
2 6 (31.58%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (10.53%) Data Validation
4 2 (10.53%) Data Mapping
4 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (10.53%) Inmon Methodology
4 2 (10.53%) Data Transformation
4 2 (10.53%) Validation
5 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.263%) Data Security
5 1 (5.263%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) VB
2 4 (21.05%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
4 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.263%) Basel II
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Business Objects
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.263%) SAP
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