Hertfordshire VBA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 20 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 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	75
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.361 %	2.880 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£275
Average daily rate	£267	£300
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£352
% change on same period last year	-20.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.08	£29.10
% change on same period last year	-17.27 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	441	625
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.582 %	0.622 %
Daily rates quoted	170	252
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£311
Average daily rate	£364	£330
% change on same period last year	+10.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.32	£29.42
Average hourly rate	£34.22	£31.58
% change on same period last year	+8.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.13	£33.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBA across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire region.

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 7 (63.64 %) SQL 2 5 (45.45 %) MS Excel 3 3 (27.27 %) Finance 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Access 3 3 (27.27 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (27.27 %) Retail 4 2 (18.18 %) Statistical Analysis 4 2 (18.18 %) Statistics 4 2 (18.18 %) RNC 4 2 (18.18 %) HTML 4 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 5 1 (9.091 %) Anite 5 1 (9.091 %) Northgate 5 1 (9.091 %) Civica

5 1 (9.091 %) Capita 5 1 (9.091 %) Academy Housing 5 1 (9.091 %) Orchard 5 1 (9.091 %) arcHouse 5 1 (9.091 %) VB 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 5 1 (9.091 %) OLAP 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 5 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (9.091 %) Data Mining 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) Ericsson 5 1 (9.091 %) Nokia 5 1 (9.091 %) Lotus 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (18.18 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (45.45 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 2 1 (9.091 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Academy Housing 1 1 (9.091 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) RNC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Access 1 3 (27.27 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) OLAP 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Mining 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 2 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 1 3 (27.27 %) Retail 2 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Developer 1 4 (36.36 %) VBA Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) Administrator 2 3 (27.27 %) Excel Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) Excel Specialist 3 2 (18.18 %) RNC Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Access Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Statistics 2 1 (9.091 %) Mathematics	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Statistical Analysis 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (63.64 %) SQL 2 1 (9.091 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Anite 1 1 (9.091 %) Northgate 1 1 (9.091 %) Civica 1 1 (9.091 %) Capita 1 1 (9.091 %) Orchard 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 1 (9.091 %) Ericsson 1 1 (9.091 %) Nokia 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus