The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 22 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 Glasgow 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 46 53 50
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Contract jobs citing VBA 31 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.233% 0.892% 1.310%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.308% 2.482% 2.913%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 6
Average daily rate £275 £263 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -11.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £188 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £331 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £23.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+59.15% -5.00%
All Programming Languages
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
584 282 309
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 60.90% 35.92% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 136 198
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £399 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.18 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.11% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.86 £11.00 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.23 £20.00 £94.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VBA
Scotland

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 28 (56.00%) Finance
2 25 (50.00%) Banking
3 19 (38.00%) SQL
4 13 (26.00%) Data Analysis
5 11 (22.00%) MS Excel
6 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 10 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 10 (20.00%) Credit Risk
7 9 (18.00%) Sybase
8 8 (16.00%) Linux
8 8 (16.00%) UNIX
8 8 (16.00%) QlikView
9 7 (14.00%) Information Security
9 7 (14.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (14.00%) MS Access
9 7 (14.00%) VB
9 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
10 6 (12.00%) CISA
10 6 (12.00%) CISM
10 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
10 6 (12.00%) DTS
10 6 (12.00%) Sun
10 6 (12.00%) SQL Server 2000
10 6 (12.00%) Java
10 6 (12.00%) Perl
10 6 (12.00%) Solaris
10 6 (12.00%) XML
10 6 (12.00%) XSL
10 6 (12.00%) MS PowerPoint
10 6 (12.00%) CRISC

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (12.00%) XML
1 6 (12.00%) XSL
2 5 (10.00%) XSLT
3 3 (6.000%) .NET
4 1 (2.000%) Spring
4 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.000%) J2SE
4 1 (2.000%) JMS
4 1 (2.000%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (22.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (12.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.000%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.00%) QlikView
3 7 (14.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (14.00%) MS Access
4 6 (12.00%) DTS
4 6 (12.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (12.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (6.000%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (2.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.000%) DB2
8 1 (2.000%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.000%) MSTest
1 1 (2.000%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.000%) Selenium
1 1 (2.000%) NUnit
1 1 (2.000%) JUnit
1 1 (2.000%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 28 (56.00%) Finance
2 25 (50.00%) Banking
3 10 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.000%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (60.00%) Analyst
2 15 (30.00%) Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Risk Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) VBA Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Excel Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Excel VBA Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Data Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) MI Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) SQL Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Consultant
7 3 (6.000%) Analyst Programmer
7 3 (6.000%) Programmer
8 2 (4.000%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Operational Risk Analyst
9 1 (2.000%) SQL Server Consultant
9 1 (2.000%) IT Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 5 (10.00%) Derivative
3 4 (8.000%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (4.000%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.000%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.000%) Statistics
5 1 (2.000%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
1 8 (16.00%) UNIX
2 6 (12.00%) Solaris
3 5 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Data Analysis
2 7 (14.00%) Information Security
2 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (10.00%) Manual Testing
3 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (10.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (6.000%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (2.000%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (2.000%) Analytics
5 1 (2.000%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.000%) Time Management
5 1 (2.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.000%) Unit Testing
5 1 (2.000%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.000%) Operations Research
5 1 (2.000%) Business Analysis
5 1 (2.000%) Asset Management
5 1 (2.000%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) VB
3 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
3 6 (12.00%) Java
3 6 (12.00%) Perl
4 4 (8.000%) C#
5 3 (6.000%) VBScript
6 2 (4.000%) C++
7 1 (2.000%) Scala
7 1 (2.000%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.000%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) CISA
1 6 (12.00%) CISM
1 6 (12.00%) CRISC
2 3 (6.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) COBIT
2 5 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (6.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (6.000%) Basel II
4 1 (2.000%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (8.000%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Sybase
2 6 (12.00%) Sun
3 4 (8.000%) Business Objects
4 3 (6.000%) Oracle
5 1 (2.000%) Cognos
5 1 (2.000%) Siebel
5 1 (2.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.000%) Hyperion
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