The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 18 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 Canary Wharf 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 30 40 36
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Contract jobs citing VBA 16 13 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 4.678% 3.351% 4.780%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.03% 6.989% 9.881%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 19
Average daily rate £600 £500 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +12.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
145 186 253
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 42.40% 47.94% 48.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 128 202
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VBA
London

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 23 (54.76%) C#
2 22 (52.38%) SQL Server
3 20 (47.62%) SQL
4 17 (40.48%) Finance
4 17 (40.48%) Degree
5 14 (33.33%) Banking
6 13 (30.95%) RAD
7 12 (28.57%) OO
7 12 (28.57%) Derivative
8 11 (26.19%) C++
9 10 (23.81%) MS Excel
9 10 (23.81%) Multithreading
10 9 (21.43%) WCF
10 9 (21.43%) XML
10 9 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (19.05%) XSLT
11 8 (19.05%) QlikView
11 8 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (16.67%) Business Analysis
12 7 (16.67%) Market Risk
12 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
12 7 (16.67%) Front Office
13 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
13 6 (14.29%) MS Access
13 6 (14.29%) HTML
13 6 (14.29%) .NET
13 6 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
13 6 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
14 5 (11.90%) VB6

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 9 (21.43%) XML
1 9 (21.43%) WCF
2 8 (19.05%) XSLT
3 6 (14.29%) HTML
3 6 (14.29%) .NET
4 2 (4.762%) STL
4 2 (4.762%) WinForms
4 2 (4.762%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (4.762%) Web Services
5 1 (2.381%) REST
5 1 (2.381%) NHibernate
5 1 (2.381%) JSON
5 1 (2.381%) WPF
5 1 (2.381%) Struts
5 1 (2.381%) SAP MI
5 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.381%) JSP
5 1 (2.381%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.381%) IIS
1 1 (2.381%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.381%) SAS
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (2.381%) GemFire
Applications
1 10 (23.81%) MS Excel
2 4 (9.524%) MS Office
3 1 (2.381%) MS Project
3 1 (2.381%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.524%) LAN
1 4 (9.524%) VPN
2 1 (2.381%) HTTP
2 1 (2.381%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (19.05%) QlikView
3 6 (14.29%) MS Access
4 1 (2.381%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.381%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.381%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.143%) Hudson
2 2 (4.762%) Build Forge
2 2 (4.762%) CruiseControl
3 1 (2.381%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.381%) Ant
3 1 (2.381%) JUnit
3 1 (2.381%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.381%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 14 (33.33%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Front Office
4 1 (2.381%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) Developer
2 15 (35.71%) C# Developer
3 12 (28.57%) Excel Developer
4 9 (21.43%) Analyst
5 7 (16.67%) VBA Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Excel VBA Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Service Analyst
7 2 (4.762%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.762%) Service Desk Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Analyst Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Web Applications Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Java Web Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Report Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Derivative
2 9 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (16.67%) Market Risk
4 2 (4.762%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.381%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.381%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.381%) Physics
5 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.381%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.381%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 4 (9.524%) Windows XP
2 4 (9.524%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) RAD
2 12 (28.57%) OO
3 10 (23.81%) Multithreading
4 7 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 6 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 4 (9.524%) ITIL
7 3 (7.143%) OOP
7 3 (7.143%) Project Management
7 3 (7.143%) Data Analysis
8 2 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (4.762%) Wealth Management
8 2 (4.762%) Analytics
8 2 (4.762%) Data Validation
8 2 (4.762%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (4.762%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) C#
2 20 (47.62%) SQL
3 11 (26.19%) C++
4 5 (11.90%) VBScript
4 5 (11.90%) VB
4 5 (11.90%) VB6
5 3 (7.143%) Python
5 3 (7.143%) Java
5 3 (7.143%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.762%) C
7 1 (2.381%) Ruby
7 1 (2.381%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.524%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.524%) Yahoo!
3 2 (4.762%) Oracle
4 1 (2.381%) Sybase
4 1 (2.381%) SAP
4 1 (2.381%) JBoss
4 1 (2.381%) Reuters
4 1 (2.381%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.381%) Teradata
4 1 (2.381%) DataSynapse