The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 20 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 Portsmouth 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VBA 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 1.235% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.174% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
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
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
46 39 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 56.79% 37.14% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 13
Average daily rate £363 £350 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +34.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £418 £306
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 20
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% -22.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
Hampshire

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) F#
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 (100.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) F#
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