East Midlands VBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the East Midlands 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 29 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 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 Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex 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 Staines 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 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	84
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	17	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	2.936 %	2.097 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£189	£200
Average daily rate	£206	£225
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£222	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£353
% change on same period last year	-23.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£25.75
% change on same period last year	-14.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.11	£28.39
% change on same period last year	-15.05 %
Programming Languages East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	579	620
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.772 %	0.619 %
Daily rates quoted	132	76
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£285
Average daily rate	£311	£299
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.16	£25.92
Average hourly rate	£33.33	£27.93
% change on same period last year	+19.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.49	£29.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
VBA 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBA across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 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
Northamptonshire	0	6	£192	-
Nottinghamshire	-7	3	-	-
Leicestershire	-	2	-	-
Derbyshire	-3	1	£275	+22.22 %

VBA England

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (64.29 %) SQL Server 2 15 (53.57 %) SQL 3 13 (46.43 %) VB 4 11 (39.29 %) Microsoft 5 10 (35.71 %) .NET 5 10 (35.71 %) VB6 5 10 (35.71 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 9 (32.14 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 9 (32.14 %) Crystal Reports 6 9 (32.14 %) VB.NET 6 9 (32.14 %) ASP.NET 7 8 (28.57 %) ASP 8 7 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 9 5 (17.86 %) MS Access 9 5 (17.86 %) Hyperion

10 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 10 4 (14.29 %) JavaScript 10 4 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 11 3 (10.71 %) OLAP 11 3 (10.71 %) MS Office 11 3 (10.71 %) NHS 11 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server 2000 11 3 (10.71 %) UNIX 11 3 (10.71 %) MS Excel 11 3 (10.71 %) Datawarehouse 12 2 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects 12 2 (7.143 %) Business Objects 12 2 (7.143 %) COBOL 12 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005 12 2 (7.143 %) Information Management

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 10 (35.71 %) .NET 2 9 (32.14 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (28.57 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.143 %) SAS 2 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (10.71 %) MS Office 1 3 (10.71 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (64.29 %) SQL Server 2 10 (35.71 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 9 (32.14 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 9 (32.14 %) Crystal Reports 4 5 (17.86 %) MS Access 5 3 (10.71 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (10.71 %) OLAP 5 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (3.571 %) Ingres 7 1 (3.571 %) ETL
General 1 2 (7.143 %) Finance 2 1 (3.571 %) Marketing 2 1 (3.571 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 14 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 12 (42.86 %) Developer 3 8 (28.57 %) .NET Developer 3 8 (28.57 %) VB.NET Developer 4 4 (14.29 %) Report Analyst 5 3 (10.71 %) Programmer 5 3 (10.71 %) MI Analyst 6 2 (7.143 %) VBA Developer 6 2 (7.143 %) Data Analyst 6 2 (7.143 %) Systems Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) DBA 7 1 (3.571 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.571 %) Analyst Developer 7 1 (3.571 %) Information Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) Access Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.71 %) NHS 2 1 (3.571 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 3 (10.71 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (7.143 %) Change Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Validation 2 2 (7.143 %) Information Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Migration 3 1 (3.571 %) Workflow 3 1 (3.571 %) Resource Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 1 (3.571 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 15 (53.57 %) SQL 2 13 (46.43 %) VB 3 10 (35.71 %) VB6 4 9 (32.14 %) VB.NET 5 4 (14.29 %) JavaScript 5 4 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (7.143 %) COBOL 7 1 (3.571 %) C# 7 1 (3.571 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (3.571 %) SAS Macro
Vendors 1 11 (39.29 %) Microsoft 2 5 (17.86 %) Hyperion 3 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 2 (7.143 %) Business Objects 5 1 (3.571 %) Cognos 5 1 (3.571 %) ProClarity 5 1 (3.571 %) Alterian