The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 17 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 Crawley 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 19 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing VBA 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 3.333% 0.380% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.51% 1.563% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
37 64 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 24.67% 24.33% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 11
Average daily rate £360 £300 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £228 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £398 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VBA
West Sussex

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Business Objects
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) Smart Meter
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Retail

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 1 (14.29%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Access Developer
4 1 (14.29%) VBA Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Database Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) ETL
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) OOP
2 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Business Objects