The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 21 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 Milton Keynes 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 43 54 52
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing VBA 12 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.290% 1.114% 0.504%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.696% 4.444% 1.744%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 1
Average daily rate £175 £188 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -46.42%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
138 180 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 26.34% 25.07% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 90 79
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £35.00 £23.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
Buckinghamshire

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) MS Excel
2 11 (61.11%) MS Access
3 9 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 8 (44.44%) SQL
4 8 (44.44%) Oracle
5 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
6 5 (27.78%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (27.78%) Logistics
7 4 (22.22%) Content Management
8 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
9 2 (11.11%) Validation
9 2 (11.11%) Migration
9 2 (11.11%) .NET
9 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (11.11%) E-business
9 2 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
9 2 (11.11%) Data Validation
10 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
10 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
10 1 (5.556%) Veeam
10 1 (5.556%) Data Entry
10 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
10 1 (5.556%) vSphere
10 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (5.556%) Business Development
10 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (5.556%) SCCM

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.556%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (61.11%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) LDAP
1 1 (5.556%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) MS Access
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Data Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Process Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Development Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Report Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Process Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Access Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
1 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 5 (27.78%) Logistics
3 4 (22.22%) Content Management
4 2 (11.11%) Validation
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) E-business
4 2 (11.11%) Data Validation
5 1 (5.556%) Data Entry
5 1 (5.556%) Business Development
5 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.556%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (5.556%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (5.556%) Performance Improvement
5 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.556%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.556%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) VBScript
2 1 (5.556%) VB
2 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.556%) vSphere
1 1 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.556%) VMware ESX
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.556%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle
3 1 (5.556%) Veeam
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) EMC
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) Primavera