Oxford VBA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the Oxford 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire City of London Clapham Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stroud Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	22
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.093 %	5.714 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£248	£312
% change on same period last year	-20.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	-
Average hourly rate	£45.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.01	£26.64
% change on same period last year	-9.84 %
Programming Languages Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	97	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.153 %	0.075 %
Daily rates quoted	30	13
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£269
Average daily rate	£305	£296
% change on same period last year	+3.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.23	£28.82
Average hourly rate	£25.85	£30.59
% change on same period last year	-15.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.46	£32.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
VBA Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford region.

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBA
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) ActiveX 2 1 (33.33 %) MATLAB

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 %) ActiveX	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MATLAB
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) VBA Developer
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL