The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 20 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 48 36 35
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -1
Permanent jobs citing VBA 3 1 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.850% 0.613% 5.556%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.382% 0.877% 8.025%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 13
Average salary £27,500 £42,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.29% +88.88%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Programming Languages
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
217 114 162
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 61.47% 69.94% 69.23%
Number of salaries quoted 130 100 155
Average salary £35,500 £30,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.39% -6.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £21,216 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBA
Cheshire

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester VBA Salary Trend

VBA
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Windows

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET