The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 21 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 Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 38 48 34
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -14
Permanent jobs citing VBA 7 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 2.029% 0.469% 1.916%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.516% 1.739% 6.494%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +1.44%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
155 115 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 44.93% 27.00% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 116 98 49
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBA
Scotland

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen VBA Jobs Demand Trend

VBA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VBA across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen VBA Salary Trend

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VBA.

1 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
3 4 (44.44%) ERP
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) DTS
4 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 3 (33.33%) Perl
4 3 (33.33%) PHP
5 2 (22.22%) VB
5 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) Epicor
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) Maximo
6 1 (11.11%) VB6
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (11.11%) MCITP
6 1 (11.11%) MCTS
6 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) ColdFusion
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Maximo
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) DTS
3 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Applications Support
2 3 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) VBA Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
3 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
4 2 (22.22%) VB
5 1 (11.11%) VB6
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) MCITP
1 1 (11.11%) MCTS
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) XenApp
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Business Desktop Deployment
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Epicor
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Business Objects