The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Wales 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 45 49 59
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +10
Contract jobs citing VBA 1 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.215% 1.178% 0.564%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.813% 3.448% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Average daily rate - £200 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 £13.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+196.29% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+35.45% +10.00%
All Programming Languages
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
123 203 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 26.39% 34.18% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 101 110
Average daily rate £322 £345 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.65% +2.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £183 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 10
Average hourly rate £36.25 £23.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% -44.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
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VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales VBA Hourly Rate Trend

VBA
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
West Wales - 1 - -
North Wales - - - -
South Wales - - - -
VBA
UK

VBA
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Access

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
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