The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 36 27 26
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -1
Contract jobs citing VBA 1 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.350% 1.327% 1.304%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.316% 3.409% 4.286%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £125 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -50.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
76 88 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 26.57% 38.94% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 24
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £428 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.94 £8.50 £25.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.60 £26.25 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VBA
Nottinghamshire

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL