Cambridgeshire VBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location Addlestone Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Clapham Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham UK Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	68
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	10	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.817 %	1.033 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£352
% change on same period last year	-21.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£24.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.87	£29.10
% change on same period last year	-17.99 %
Programming Languages Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	355	484
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.468 %	0.482 %
Daily rates quoted	88	70
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£295
Average daily rate	£333	£308
% change on same period last year	+8.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	71
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.48	£29.29
Average hourly rate	£33.81	£30.91
% change on same period last year	+9.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.13	£32.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
VBA East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VBA across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VBA
Daily Rate Trend

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

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBA across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+16	6	-	-
Peterborough	+1	2	£225	-
Huntingdon	-	1	-	-

VBA East of England

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 18 (62.07 %) .NET 1 18 (62.07 %) SQL Server 2 15 (51.72 %) OLAP 2 15 (51.72 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 15 (51.72 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 14 (48.28 %) SQL Server 2005 3 14 (48.28 %) Datawarehouse 4 12 (41.38 %) XML 4 12 (41.38 %) SQL 5 11 (37.93 %) VB.NET 5 11 (37.93 %) SQL Server 2000 6 10 (34.48 %) Cognos 6 10 (34.48 %) Business Intelligence 6 10 (34.48 %) Business Objects 6 10 (34.48 %) BusinessObjects

7 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft 8 8 (27.59 %) Transact-SQL 8 8 (27.59 %) Telecoms 8 8 (27.59 %) Finance 9 6 (20.69 %) ETL 9 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 5 (17.24 %) MS Office 10 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 10 5 (17.24 %) MS Visio 11 4 (13.79 %) MS Access 11 4 (13.79 %) CRM 11 4 (13.79 %) SharePoint 11 4 (13.79 %) JavaScript 11 4 (13.79 %) VBScript 11 4 (13.79 %) VB

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 18 (62.07 %) .NET 2 12 (41.38 %) XML 3 3 (10.34 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (13.79 %) SharePoint 2 3 (10.34 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (17.24 %) MS Office 1 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 1 5 (17.24 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Academy Housing 1 1 (3.448 %) arcHouse
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (62.07 %) SQL Server 2 15 (51.72 %) OLAP 2 15 (51.72 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 15 (51.72 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 14 (48.28 %) SQL Server 2005 3 14 (48.28 %) Datawarehouse 4 11 (37.93 %) SQL Server 2000 5 10 (34.48 %) BusinessObjects 6 6 (20.69 %) ETL 6 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 4 (13.79 %) MS Access 7 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 3 (10.34 %) Crystal Reports 9 1 (3.448 %) Data Mining	Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) Visual Studio
General 1 8 (27.59 %) Telecoms 1 8 (27.59 %) Finance 2 4 (13.79 %) Banking 2 4 (13.79 %) Retail 2 4 (13.79 %) Insurance 3 2 (6.897 %) Health	Job Titles 1 20 (68.97 %) Developer 2 10 (34.48 %) Datawarehouse Developer 3 9 (31.03 %) Analyst 3 9 (31.03 %) Business Developer 4 6 (20.69 %) Business Intelligence Developer 5 5 (17.24 %) Data Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Access Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) VBA Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Systems Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Programmer 7 1 (3.448 %) Database Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Business Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Business Project Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Software Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Project Manager 7 1 (3.448 %) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (34.48 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (13.79 %) CRM 3 3 (10.34 %) Time Management 4 2 (6.897 %) Data Modelling 4 2 (6.897 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (6.897 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (3.448 %) Asset Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (41.38 %) SQL 2 11 (37.93 %) VB.NET 3 8 (27.59 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (13.79 %) JavaScript 4 4 (13.79 %) VBScript 4 4 (13.79 %) VB 5 3 (10.34 %) C# 6 2 (6.897 %) C 6 2 (6.897 %) C++ 7 1 (3.448 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 4 (13.79 %) Degree	Vendors 1 10 (34.48 %) Cognos 1 10 (34.48 %) Business Objects 2 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft 3 4 (13.79 %) ProClarity 4 1 (3.448 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.448 %) Anite 4 1 (3.448 %) Northgate 4 1 (3.448 %) Civica 4 1 (3.448 %) Capita 4 1 (3.448 %) Orchard