The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 74 79 74
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Permanent jobs citing VBA 21 5 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.937% 0.507% 0.472%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.224% 1.006% 1.050%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 3
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% +32.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,400 £30,000 £23,300
10% offered a salary of more than £36,200 £40,000 £26,628
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
402 497 381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 37.08% 50.35% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 361 418 367
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBA
East of England

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VBA Salary Trend

VBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire VBA Salary Histogram

VBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton +11 15 £31,000 -22.50%
Bedford - 3 £24,000 -
VBA
East of England

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 23 (88.46%) SQL Server
2 20 (76.92%) VB
2 20 (76.92%) .NET
2 20 (76.92%) MS Excel
3 18 (69.23%) MS Access
4 17 (65.38%) Windows
4 17 (65.38%) Crystal Reports
5 14 (53.85%) Oracle
5 14 (53.85%) VB.NET
5 14 (53.85%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (50.00%) MS Office
7 12 (46.15%) Data Analysis
7 12 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (30.77%) SQL
9 6 (23.08%) Performance Improvement
9 6 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (19.23%) C#
10 5 (19.23%) MVC
11 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
11 4 (15.38%) T-SQL
11 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
11 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (11.54%) Oracle 8/8i
12 3 (11.54%) HTML
12 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
12 3 (11.54%) ASP
12 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
12 3 (11.54%) CSS

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 20 (76.92%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) ASP
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 2 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (7.692%) Web Services
3 2 (7.692%) XML
3 2 (7.692%) NHibernate
3 2 (7.692%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.692%) WCF
3 2 (7.692%) WF
3 2 (7.692%) jQuery
4 1 (3.846%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (76.92%) MS Excel
2 13 (50.00%) MS Office
3 1 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) HFM
1 1 (3.846%) Hyperion Enterprise
1 1 (3.846%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (3.846%) Cognos Planning
1 1 (3.846%) SAP BPC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (88.46%) SQL Server
2 18 (69.23%) MS Access
3 17 (65.38%) Crystal Reports
4 14 (53.85%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (3.846%) OLAP
8 1 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
8 1 (3.846%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) NUnit
1 2 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (11.54%) Finance
2 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Capacity Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Forecast Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) MI Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Information Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
3 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.692%) SQL Developer
4 2 (7.692%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Junior Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Data Steward
5 1 (3.846%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Junior
5 1 (3.846%) Business Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Data Analysis
1 12 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (23.08%) Performance Improvement
2 6 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (19.23%) MVC
4 2 (7.692%) Business Analysis
4 2 (7.692%) Web Development
4 2 (7.692%) Use Case
4 2 (7.692%) Performance Management
5 1 (3.846%) Workflow
5 1 (3.846%) ITIL
5 1 (3.846%) ERP
5 1 (3.846%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) VB
2 14 (53.85%) VB.NET
3 8 (30.77%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) C#
5 4 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 3 (11.54%) VB6
7 1 (3.846%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.846%) Hyperion
3 1 (3.846%) JD Edwards
3 1 (3.846%) Infor
3 1 (3.846%) Business Objects
3 1 (3.846%) SAP
3 1 (3.846%) Cognos