The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 30 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing VBA 9 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.082% 2.210% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.25% 7.407% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 0
Average daily rate £325 £301 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.06% -
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
80 108 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 27.40% 29.83% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 48
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £450 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £32.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% -2.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £32.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBA
Wiltshire

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) ERP
2 9 (81.82%) Finance
3 6 (54.55%) Epicor
4 5 (45.45%) General Ledger
5 4 (36.36%) Investment Management
5 4 (36.36%) SLA
5 4 (36.36%) Business Objects
6 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (27.27%) FRx
6 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
6 3 (27.27%) Back Office
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
7 2 (18.18%) ITIL
7 2 (18.18%) VB
8 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
8 1 (9.091%) .NET
8 1 (9.091%) MS Office
8 1 (9.091%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (9.091%) C
8 1 (9.091%) C#
8 1 (9.091%) Windows
8 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
8 1 (9.091%) HTTP
8 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
8 1 (9.091%) Fund Management
8 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
8 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 (9.091%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) FRx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
1 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) General Ledger
3 3 (27.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
1 9 (81.82%) Support Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) IT Support
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) VBA Developer
4 1 (9.091%) VB Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ERP
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Management
3 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 1 (9.091%) Fund Management
5 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VB
3 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
3 1 (9.091%) C
3 1 (9.091%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Epicor
2 4 (36.36%) Business Objects
3 1 (9.091%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Twitter