Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkMicrosoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank90106112
Rank change year-on-year
Up+16Up+6
Matching contract IT job ads12225881033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.029 %1.537 %1.420 %
As % of the Programming Languages category5.014 %4.379 %4.316 %
Daily rates quoted759255409
Average daily rate£500£375£445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33 %-15.73 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£263£200£201
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£314£275£250
% change year-on-year
+14.09 %+10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted292750
Average hourly rate£19.00£18.63£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.010 %-25.50 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.40£15.35£14.40
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.50£32.00£37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.75£18.50£25.00
% change year-on-year
-4.050 %-26.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
243741342823933
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK40.46 %35.09 %32.89 %
Daily rates quoted1342854968414
Average daily rate£425£372£380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.24 %-2.100 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£325
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted113910031649
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£16.25£19.84
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£43.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£29.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
+3.440 %-17.14 %

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.

VBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VBA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VBA Demand Trend

VBA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VBA within the UK.

VBA Daily Rate Trend

VBA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBA within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

VBA Daily Rate Histogram

VBA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBA within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

VBA Hourly Rate Histogram

VBA
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+151191£500+33.33 %
LondonUp+16933£500+17.64 %
City of LondonUp+20391£520+20.93 %
South EastDown-3067£313-2.34 %
North WestDown-250£325+26.70 %
YorkshireUp+1142£425+142.85 %
ManchesterUp+340£325+26.70 %
West MidlandsDown-440£284+10.19 %
Canary WharfDown-838£550+12.82 %
West YorkshireUp+528£430+37.60 %
South WestDown-1124£315+66.88 %
East of EnglandDown-2023£365+75.90 %
Docklands, LondonUp+321£469+4.16 %
ScotlandDown-2218£243-11.81 %
BerkshireDown-3317£383+22.40 %
EdinburghDown-913£211-17.96 %
East MidlandsDown-2912£381+105.94 %
LeedsUp+810£438-
BirminghamDown-410£625+108.33 %
ReadingDown-1910£397+32.33 %
South YorkshireUp+39£245-
EssexUp+29£350+75.00 %
BuckinghamshireDown-89£250-32.79 %
HampshireDown-109£263-
HertfordshireDown-179£625+190.69 %
BristolDown-58£338-
WarwickshireNo change07£293+44.44 %
WiltshireDown-57£225+45.16 %
SwindonDown-96--
NorthamptonshireDown-156£662-

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11105 (45.81 %)SQL
2918 (38.06 %)C#
3832 (34.49 %)Finance
4764 (31.67 %)Banking
5732 (30.35 %)Front Office
6690 (28.61 %)SQL Server
7631 (26.16 %)MS Excel
8626 (25.95 %).NET
9594 (24.63 %)Investment Banking
10507 (21.02 %)Derivative
11428 (17.74 %)Fixed Income
12395 (16.38 %)Microsoft
13375 (15.55 %)Oracle
14360 (14.93 %)RAD
15326 (13.52 %)MS Access
16315 (13.06 %)VB
17291 (12.06 %)C++
18289 (11.98 %)Java
19251 (10.41 %)Spreadsheet
20241 (9.992 %)XML
21220 (9.121 %)Risk Management
22202 (8.375 %)Degree
23201 (8.333 %)Credit Derivative
24183 (7.587 %)SQL Server Integration Services
25178 (7.380 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
26167 (6.924 %)Sybase
27161 (6.675 %)MS Office
27161 (6.675 %)SQL Server 2005
28152 (6.302 %)Windows
29149 (6.177 %)ASP.NET

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1626 (25.95 %).NET
2241 (9.992 %)XML
3149 (6.177 %)ASP.NET
4133 (5.514 %)HTML
5107 (4.436 %)ASP
689 (3.690 %)Web Services
784 (3.483 %)WinForms
859 (2.446 %)XSLT
940 (1.658 %)DOM
1039 (1.617 %)Middleware
1138 (1.575 %).NET Framework
1237 (1.534 %)ADO
1331 (1.285 %)ODBC
1430 (1.244 %)CSS
1430 (1.244 %)Spring
1529 (1.202 %)WCF
1529 (1.202 %)WPF
1625 (1.036 %)J2EE
1717 (0.705 %)DAO
1815 (0.622 %)AJAX
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1119 (4.934 %)SAS
266 (2.736 %)SharePoint
334 (1.410 %)IIS
423 (0.954 %)TIBCO EMS
518 (0.746 %)Lotus Notes
617 (0.705 %)MS Exchange
713 (0.539 %)Tomcat
713 (0.539 %)SharePoint Server 2007
812 (0.498 %)Rendezvous
98 (0.332 %)Oracle Workflow
98 (0.332 %)BizTalk Server
107 (0.290 %)ColdFusion
107 (0.290 %)Lotus Domino
107 (0.290 %)SharePoint Portal Server
116 (0.249 %)Exchange Server 2007
125 (0.207 %)SmartSockets
133 (0.124 %)Apache
133 (0.124 %)MQSeries
133 (0.124 %)WebLogic
133 (0.124 %)CMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1631 (26.16 %)MS Excel
2251 (10.41 %)Spreadsheet
3161 (6.675 %)MS Office
449 (2.032 %)MS PowerPoint
536 (1.493 %)MS Visio
626 (1.078 %)SPSS
722 (0.912 %)MATLAB
813 (0.539 %)MS Project
95 (0.207 %)InfoPath
103 (0.124 %)Acrobat
103 (0.124 %)S-PLUS
111 (0.041 %)MicroStation
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (0.705 %)Sophis RISQUE
211 (0.456 %)FINCAD Analytics
39 (0.373 %)Summit
39 (0.373 %)Loan IQ
48 (0.332 %)Endur
57 (0.290 %)SAP HR
57 (0.290 %)Global One
57 (0.290 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
57 (0.290 %)Sophis VALUE
65 (0.207 %)HFM
65 (0.207 %)CODA Dream
65 (0.207 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
74 (0.166 %)ION MarketView
74 (0.166 %)Oracle General Ledger
74 (0.166 %)Line 50
74 (0.166 %)Oracle EBS
74 (0.166 %)Oracle Financials
74 (0.166 %)Murex MxG2000
83 (0.124 %)Khalix
83 (0.124 %)Monis
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
121 (0.871 %)HTTP
218 (0.746 %)Intranet
312 (0.498 %)TCP/IP
312 (0.498 %)Internet
410 (0.415 %)FTP
58 (0.332 %)SMTP
67 (0.290 %)LAN
76 (0.249 %)Wireless
76 (0.249 %)SAN
83 (0.124 %)VPN
83 (0.124 %)UMTS
83 (0.124 %)WAN
83 (0.124 %)Bluetooth
83 (0.124 %)LLU
83 (0.124 %)NAS
92 (0.083 %)SSH
92 (0.083 %)Symposium
92 (0.083 %)Wi-Fi
92 (0.083 %)3G
92 (0.083 %)IIOP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1690 (28.61 %)SQL Server
2326 (13.52 %)MS Access
3183 (7.587 %)SQL Server Integration Services
4161 (6.675 %)SQL Server 2005
5111 (4.602 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6104 (4.312 %)BusinessObjects
775 (3.109 %)SQL Server 2000
858 (2.405 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
954 (2.239 %)SQL Server 2008
1043 (1.783 %)Crystal Reports
1140 (1.658 %)DTS
1235 (1.451 %)OLAP
1334 (1.410 %)RDBMS
1334 (1.410 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1431 (1.285 %)ETL
1529 (1.202 %)Base SAS
1627 (1.119 %)Essbase
1627 (1.119 %)Oracle 10g
1725 (1.036 %)Data Mining
1821 (0.871 %)Reference Data
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
185 (3.524 %)Visual Studio
240 (1.658 %)NUnit
325 (1.036 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
424 (0.995 %)QuickTest Pro
519 (0.788 %)ClearCase
614 (0.580 %)Subversion
712 (0.498 %)Team Foundation Server
712 (0.498 %)WinRunner
810 (0.415 %)Oracle APEX
810 (0.415 %)JUnit
99 (0.373 %)Eclipse
99 (0.373 %)VSS/SourceSafe
108 (0.332 %)Selenium
117 (0.290 %)LoadRunner
117 (0.290 %)TestPartner
126 (0.249 %)Dreamweaver
126 (0.249 %)TestDirector
135 (0.207 %)Ant
135 (0.207 %)JIRA
135 (0.207 %)EasyMock
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1832 (34.49 %)Finance
2764 (31.67 %)Banking
3732 (30.35 %)Front Office
4594 (24.63 %)Investment Banking
580 (3.317 %)Back Office
651 (2.114 %)Retail
745 (1.866 %)Financial Institution
840 (1.658 %)Pensions
938 (1.575 %)Insurance
1030 (1.244 %)Marketing
1128 (1.161 %)Telecoms
1224 (0.995 %)Government
1320 (0.829 %)Health
1419 (0.788 %)Education
1516 (0.663 %)Construction
1614 (0.580 %)Retail Banking
1713 (0.539 %)Legal
1812 (0.498 %)General Ledger
1812 (0.498 %)Publishing
1910 (0.415 %)Auditing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11493 (61.90 %)Developer
2688 (28.52 %)Analyst
3543 (22.51 %)Excel Developer
4476 (19.73 %)VBA Developer
5336 (13.93 %)Excel VBA Developer
6319 (13.23 %)C# Developer
7249 (10.32 %)RAD Developer
8151 (6.260 %)Business Analyst
9136 (5.638 %).NET Developer
10127 (5.265 %)SQL Developer
11113 (4.685 %)Support Analyst
12104 (4.312 %)Access Developer
1394 (3.897 %)Data Analyst
1479 (3.275 %)Front Office Developer
1479 (3.275 %)Analyst Developer
1576 (3.151 %)Applications Support
1673 (3.027 %)SQL Server Developer
1769 (2.861 %)Programmer
1863 (2.612 %)Consultant
1953 (2.197 %)Senior Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1507 (21.02 %)Derivative
2428 (17.74 %)Fixed Income
3201 (8.333 %)Credit Derivative
4178 (7.380 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5133 (5.514 %)Equities
6111 (4.602 %)Market Risk
795 (3.939 %)Equity Derivative
894 (3.897 %)Credit Risk
985 (3.524 %)Mathematics
1078 (3.234 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1168 (2.819 %)Hedge funds
1243 (1.783 %)NHS
1340 (1.658 %)Grid Computing
1432 (1.327 %)Management Information System
1528 (1.161 %)Exotic Derivative
1627 (1.119 %)Statistics
1725 (1.036 %)Physics
1819 (0.788 %)Client/Server
1915 (0.622 %)Economics
2013 (0.539 %)Computer Science
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1152 (6.302 %)Windows
2148 (6.136 %)UNIX
348 (1.990 %)Linux
424 (0.995 %)Windows Server 2003
517 (0.705 %)Solaris
615 (0.622 %)Windows XP
76 (0.249 %)Windows 2000
84 (0.166 %)Windows Server 2008
84 (0.166 %)VMS
92 (0.083 %)Windows 7
101 (0.041 %)zOS
101 (0.041 %)Windows Vista
101 (0.041 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1360 (14.93 %)RAD
2220 (9.121 %)Risk Management
3120 (4.975 %)Business Analysis
4117 (4.851 %)Migration
582 (3.400 %)Data Analysis
678 (3.234 %)OO
768 (2.819 %)Workflow
866 (2.736 %)Agile Software Development
951 (2.114 %)User Acceptance Testing
1049 (2.032 %)Business Intelligence
1147 (1.949 %)Asset Management
1246 (1.907 %)Data Management
1342 (1.741 %)Project Management
1436 (1.493 %)Data Modelling
1534 (1.410 %)Change Management
1633 (1.368 %)OOD
1730 (1.244 %)TDD
1826 (1.078 %)Test Scripting
1925 (1.036 %)Financial Modelling
2024 (0.995 %)Stakeholder Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11105 (45.81 %)SQL
2918 (38.06 %)C#
3315 (13.06 %)VB
4291 (12.06 %)C++
5289 (11.98 %)Java
6138 (5.721 %)T-SQL
7115 (4.768 %)VB.NET
8112 (4.643 %)VB6
9100 (4.146 %)PL/SQL
1080 (3.317 %)Perl
1176 (3.151 %)Python
1269 (2.861 %)C
1358 (2.405 %)JavaScript
1454 (2.239 %)VBScript
1533 (1.368 %)XPath
1631 (1.285 %)Shell Script
1718 (0.746 %)SAS Macro
1817 (0.705 %)Korn
199 (0.373 %)PHP
199 (0.373 %)Lua
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1202 (8.375 %)Degree
246 (1.907 %)Security Cleared
332 (1.327 %)SC Cleared
425 (1.036 %)PhD
519 (0.788 %)Microsoft Certification
69 (0.373 %)MOS
78 (0.332 %)CIMA
78 (0.332 %)ECDL
78 (0.332 %)ISEB
87 (0.290 %)ACCA
93 (0.124 %)MCSE
93 (0.124 %)MCSD
102 (0.083 %)BC Cleared
102 (0.083 %)DV Cleared
102 (0.083 %)ISTQB
102 (0.083 %)CFA
102 (0.083 %)MCP
102 (0.083 %)MCAD
102 (0.083 %)PRINCE2 Certification
111 (0.041 %)MCSA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
151 (2.114 %)QA
222 (0.912 %)SLA
321 (0.871 %)Basel II
48 (0.332 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
55 (0.207 %)WAI
62 (0.083 %)ISO 9001
71 (0.041 %)BS7799
71 (0.041 %)MiFID
71 (0.041 %)ISO/IEC 27001
71 (0.041 %)JTAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
117 (0.705 %)Active Directory
213 (0.539 %)MSMQ
33 (0.124 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
42 (0.083 %)Terminal Services
42 (0.083 %)NDS
51 (0.041 %)Samba
51 (0.041 %)LiteSpeed
51 (0.041 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
143 (1.783 %)AutoSys
212 (0.498 %)HP Quality Center
39 (0.373 %)MSI
46 (0.249 %)MOM
52 (0.083 %)Tivoli
52 (0.083 %)ZENworks
52 (0.083 %)Control-M
61 (0.041 %)Unicenter
61 (0.041 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
61 (0.041 %)Foglight
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1395 (16.38 %)Microsoft
2375 (15.55 %)Oracle
3167 (6.924 %)Sybase
4104 (4.312 %)Business Objects
592 (3.814 %)Bloomberg
660 (2.488 %)TIBCO
660 (2.488 %)Reuters
750 (2.073 %)Sophis
839 (1.617 %)Cognos
839 (1.617 %)SAP
930 (1.244 %)Murex
1026 (1.078 %)IBM
1120 (0.829 %)Lotus
1120 (0.829 %)Fidessa
1120 (0.829 %)Hyperion
1216 (0.663 %)Remedy
1315 (0.622 %)Perforce
1414 (0.580 %)Citrix
1513 (0.539 %)HP
1611 (0.456 %)ION Trading