The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 23 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 26 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing VBA 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.299% 1.132% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.061% 3.093% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £260 £125 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+108.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £23.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+59.15% -5.00%
All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
33 97 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.43% 36.60% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 55 38
Average daily rate £288 £304 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.34% +1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £232 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £550 £377
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
Tyne and Wear

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) MI Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Report Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft