The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 24 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 Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank - 25 30
Contract jobs citing VBA 0 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - 1.128% 1.749%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 3.529% 7.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £23.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+59.15% -5.00%
All Programming Languages
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
43 85 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 25.00% 31.95% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 20
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £238 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 20
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% +55.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
England

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBA across the Midlands region.

Midlands VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 2 (66.67%) SAS
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Macro
2 1 (33.33%) Base SAS
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) Base SAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Development Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Macro
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory