England VBA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBA over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Romsey Ross-on-Wye Royston Ruislip Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Wantage Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Widnes Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	93
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching permanent IT job ads	3535	4345
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.733 %	1.924 %
As % of the category below	3.949 %	4.328 %
Salaries quoted	2781	3115
Average minimum salary	£43,909	£44,726
Average salary	£48,445	£49,403
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Average maximum salary	£52,981	£54,079
UK excluding London average salary	£32,693	£30,352
% change on same period last year	+7.71 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	89513	100400
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	43.89 %	44.45 %
Salaries quoted	75590	81003
Average minimum salary	£37,787	£39,201
Average salary	£41,503	£43,056
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Average maximum salary	£45,218	£46,910
UK excluding London average salary	£35,401	£35,481
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
VBA UK

VBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing VBA across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VBA
Salary Trend

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

VBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA across the England region over the past 3 months.

VBA
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	-12	2543	£55,901	+0.20 %
2	South East	-28	334	£35,527	+4.59 %
3	East of England	+38	162	£31,812	+6.17 %
4	North West	+11	136	£30,382	+14.18 %
5	South West	+27	130	£33,466	+8.36 %
6	Yorkshire	-11	94	£28,354	+9.74 %
7	East Midlands	+22	82	£29,736	+27.73 %
8	West Midlands	-79	42	£32,139	+11.68 %
9	North East	+12	17	£28,667	+5.52 %
10	Midlands	-10	4	£40,000	+21.47 %

VBA UK

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing VBA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VBA.

1 3533 (51.84 %) SQL 2 2564 (37.62 %) Finance 3 2418 (35.48 %) .NET 4 2282 (33.48 %) C# 5 2182 (32.02 %) SQL Server 6 1883 (27.63 %) VB 7 1765 (25.90 %) Front Office 8 1374 (20.16 %) Derivative 9 1326 (19.46 %) Banking 10 1126 (16.52 %) MS Excel 11 1068 (15.67 %) Degree 12 1032 (15.14 %) C++ 13 1015 (14.89 %) XML 14 909 (13.34 %) ASP.NET 15 862 (12.65 %) Microsoft

16 854 (12.53 %) Java 17 840 (12.33 %) Oracle 18 801 (11.75 %) VB.NET 19 791 (11.61 %) RAD 20 740 (10.86 %) Investment Banking 21 700 (10.27 %) Fixed Income 22 661 (9.699 %) Windows 23 640 (9.391 %) MS Office 24 609 (8.936 %) SQL Server 2005 25 584 (8.569 %) VB6 26 581 (8.525 %) HTML 27 568 (8.335 %) MS Access 28 554 (8.129 %) Unix 29 528 (7.748 %) ASP 30 505 (7.410 %) Transact-SQL

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing VBA also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VBA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2418 (35.48 %) .NET 2 1015 (14.89 %) XML 3 909 (13.34 %) ASP.NET 4 581 (8.525 %) HTML 5 528 (7.748 %) ASP 6 260 (3.815 %) ADO 7 259 (3.800 %) WebServices 8 221 (3.243 %) WinForms 9 173 (2.539 %) CSS 10 167 (2.450 %) XSLT 11 144 (2.113 %) .NET Framework 12 119 (1.746 %) J2EE 13 89 (1.306 %) Middleware 14 88 (1.291 %) ODBC 15 84 (1.233 %) ATL 16 83 (1.218 %) ADO.NET 17 82 (1.203 %) DAO 18 69 (1.012 %) STL 19 62 (0.910 %) WebSphere 20 59 (0.866 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 238 (3.492 %) SAS 2 232 (3.404 %) IIS 3 175 (2.568 %) SharePoint 4 122 (1.790 %) BizTalk Server 5 60 (0.880 %) MS Exchange 6 52 (0.763 %) CMS 7 50 (0.734 %) Tomcat 8 44 (0.646 %) Apache 9 43 (0.631 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 35 (0.514 %) Lotus Notes 11 33 (0.484 %) ArcGIS 12 26 (0.382 %) ArcSDE 13 24 (0.352 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 24 (0.352 %) WorkSite 14 22 (0.323 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 20 (0.293 %) Oracle Application Server 15 20 (0.293 %) Lotus Domino 16 18 (0.264 %) MTS 16 18 (0.264 %) WebLogic 17 17 (0.249 %) TIBCO EMS
Applications 1 1126 (16.52 %) MS Excel 2 640 (9.391 %) MS Office 3 93 (1.365 %) MS PowerPoint 4 87 (1.277 %) SPSS 5 58 (0.851 %) MS Visio 6 45 (0.660 %) MATLAB 7 23 (0.337 %) MS Project 8 12 (0.176 %) AutoCAD 9 5 (0.073 %) CA Clarity 9 5 (0.073 %) InfoPath 10 3 (0.044 %) S-PLUS 10 3 (0.044 %) Acrobat 11 1 (0.015 %) Fireworks 11 1 (0.015 %) Photoshop 11 1 (0.015 %) ArcInfo 11 1 (0.015 %) ArcView 11 1 (0.015 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 44 (0.646 %) Microsoft CRM 2 31 (0.455 %) Summit 2 31 (0.455 %) Dynamics GP 3 29 (0.426 %) Endur 4 28 (0.411 %) Dynamics CRM 5 22 (0.323 %) Dynamics NAV 6 21 (0.308 %) Navision 6 21 (0.308 %) Thomson PORTIA 7 20 (0.293 %) Oracle Applications 8 19 (0.279 %) HFM 9 14 (0.205 %) BPCS 10 13 (0.191 %) SalesLogix 11 10 (0.147 %) Hyperion Enterprise 11 10 (0.147 %) Great Plains 12 9 (0.132 %) InvestOne 12 9 (0.132 %) Loan IQ 13 7 (0.103 %) e-Work 14 6 (0.088 %) Axapta 15 5 (0.073 %) MarketView 15 5 (0.073 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 199 (2.920 %) Intranet 2 183 (2.685 %) Internet 3 57 (0.836 %) TCP/IP 4 50 (0.734 %) WAN 5 39 (0.572 %) LAN 6 35 (0.514 %) DNS 7 30 (0.440 %) DHCP 8 29 (0.426 %) Firewall 9 21 (0.308 %) VPN 10 20 (0.293 %) Broadband 11 19 (0.279 %) VoIP 11 19 (0.279 %) Extranet 12 14 (0.205 %) Wireless 12 14 (0.205 %) SMTP 13 12 (0.176 %) HTTP 14 11 (0.161 %) FTP 14 11 (0.161 %) GSM 15 9 (0.132 %) SAN 16 7 (0.103 %) LDAP 17 6 (0.088 %) WCDMA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2182 (32.02 %) SQL Server 2 609 (8.936 %) SQL Server 2005 3 568 (8.335 %) MS Access 4 474 (6.955 %) SQL Server 2000 5 360 (5.282 %) Crystal Reports 6 298 (4.373 %) BusinessObjects 7 229 (3.360 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 199 (2.920 %) DTS 9 172 (2.524 %) Datawarehouse 10 167 (2.450 %) SQL Server 7 11 148 (2.172 %) RDBMS 12 81 (1.189 %) GIS 13 80 (1.174 %) Oracle Reports 14 78 (1.145 %) OLAP 15 74 (1.086 %) ETL 16 63 (0.924 %) MySQL 17 62 (0.910 %) Oracle 10g 18 51 (0.748 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 42 (0.616 %) Data Mining 20 40 (0.587 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 261 (3.830 %) Visual Studio 2 69 (1.012 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 62 (0.910 %) Dreamweaver 4 35 (0.514 %) NUnit 4 35 (0.514 %) Flash 5 19 (0.279 %) ClearCase 6 16 (0.235 %) ProC 7 13 (0.191 %) MSI 7 13 (0.191 %) CruiseControl 8 12 (0.176 %) Rational Robot 8 12 (0.176 %) Ant 9 11 (0.161 %) TestDirector 10 10 (0.147 %) Oracle Forms 11 9 (0.132 %) QuickTest Pro 12 7 (0.103 %) Eclipse 12 7 (0.103 %) Oracle APEX 13 6 (0.088 %) WinRunner 14 4 (0.059 %) LoadRunner 15 3 (0.044 %) IntelliJ 15 3 (0.044 %) JMeter	General 1 2564 (37.62 %) Finance 2 1765 (25.90 %) Front Office 3 1326 (19.46 %) Banking 4 740 (10.86 %) Investment Banking 5 225 (3.302 %) Health 6 223 (3.272 %) Back Office 7 210 (3.081 %) Pensions 7 210 (3.081 %) Marketing 8 201 (2.949 %) Education 9 184 (2.700 %) Law 10 149 (2.186 %) Insurance 11 132 (1.937 %) Retail 12 120 (1.761 %) Financial Institution 13 106 (1.555 %) Legal 14 96 (1.409 %) Aerospace 15 74 (1.086 %) Telecoms 16 39 (0.572 %) Pharmaceutical 17 32 (0.470 %) Manufacturing 18 28 (0.411 %) Publishing 19 26 (0.382 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 3674 (53.91 %) Developer 2 2022 (29.67 %) Analyst 3 1055 (15.48 %) VBA Developer 4 984 (14.44 %) Excel Developer 5 693 (10.17 %) C# Developer 6 616 (9.039 %) Excel VBA Developer 7 510 (7.483 %) .NET Developer 8 460 (6.750 %) Applications Support 9 396 (5.811 %) RAD Developer 10 382 (5.605 %) Excel Specialist 11 378 (5.547 %) Support Analyst 12 347 (5.092 %) Business Analyst 13 341 (5.004 %) Programmer 14 303 (4.446 %) SQL Developer 15 300 (4.402 %) Front Office Developer 16 294 (4.314 %) Senior Developer 17 288 (4.226 %) C++ Developer 18 234 (3.434 %) Analyst Developer 19 227 (3.331 %) Data Analyst 20 217 (3.184 %) Applications Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1374 (20.16 %) Derivative 2 700 (10.27 %) Fixed Income 3 430 (6.310 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 420 (6.163 %) Equities 5 408 (5.987 %) Equity Derivative 6 300 (4.402 %) Credit Derivative 7 278 (4.079 %) Mathematics 8 262 (3.844 %) Asset Management 9 186 (2.729 %) Computer Science 10 148 (2.172 %) Management Information System 11 138 (2.025 %) Interest Rate Derivative 12 92 (1.350 %) Statistics 13 87 (1.277 %) Market Risk 14 78 (1.145 %) Client/Server 15 72 (1.056 %) Fund Management 16 56 (0.822 %) Exotic Derivative 17 55 (0.807 %) Physics 18 53 (0.778 %) Data Extraction 19 39 (0.572 %) Credit Risk 20 37 (0.543 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 661 (9.699 %) Windows 2 554 (8.129 %) Unix 3 233 (3.419 %) Linux 4 133 (1.952 %) Solaris 5 74 (1.086 %) Windows Server 2003 6 72 (1.056 %) Windows XP 7 69 (1.012 %) Windows NT 8 63 (0.924 %) Windows 2000 9 13 (0.191 %) VMS 10 2 (0.029 %) HPUX 11 1 (0.015 %) AIX 11 1 (0.015 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 791 (11.61 %) RAD 2 478 (7.014 %) Risk Management 3 404 (5.928 %) OO 4 276 (4.050 %) Business Analysis 5 265 (3.888 %) Project Management 6 239 (3.507 %) Business Intelligence 7 185 (2.715 %) Data Analysis 8 172 (2.524 %) UML 9 167 (2.450 %) Investment Management 10 154 (2.260 %) Agile Software Development 11 146 (2.142 %) Migration 12 144 (2.113 %) CRM 13 111 (1.629 %) Data Management 14 100 (1.467 %) Web Development 15 99 (1.453 %) E-Commerce 15 99 (1.453 %) ITIL 16 84 (1.233 %) Workflow 17 82 (1.203 %) Document Management 18 76 (1.115 %) Systems Analysis 19 64 (0.939 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 3533 (51.84 %) SQL 2 2282 (33.48 %) C# 3 1883 (27.63 %) VB 4 1032 (15.14 %) C++ 5 854 (12.53 %) Java 6 801 (11.75 %) VB.NET 7 584 (8.569 %) VB6 8 505 (7.410 %) Transact-SQL 9 454 (6.662 %) JavaScript 10 273 (4.006 %) Perl 11 238 (3.492 %) C 12 232 (3.404 %) VBScript 13 214 (3.140 %) PL/SQL 14 160 (2.348 %) Shell Script 15 115 (1.687 %) PHP 16 66 (0.968 %) Python 17 54 (0.792 %) VC++ 18 40 (0.587 %) RPG 19 28 (0.411 %) SAS Macro 20 21 (0.308 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1068 (15.67 %) Degree 2 143 (2.098 %) Microsoft Certification 3 76 (1.115 %) PhD 4 51 (0.748 %) MCP 5 36 (0.528 %) MCDBA 6 27 (0.396 %) MCSE 6 27 (0.396 %) MCSD 7 26 (0.382 %) ISEB 8 25 (0.367 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 18 (0.264 %) CIMA 10 16 (0.235 %) ACCA 11 11 (0.161 %) Cisco Certification 11 11 (0.161 %) Postgraduate 12 10 (0.147 %) CCNA 13 9 (0.132 %) CISA 13 9 (0.132 %) QiCA 13 9 (0.132 %) CIPFA 14 8 (0.117 %) MCAD 14 8 (0.117 %) MCSA 15 7 (0.103 %) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 117 (1.717 %) QA 2 50 (0.734 %) SLA 3 43 (0.631 %) Basel II 4 27 (0.396 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 20 (0.293 %) MiFID 6 12 (0.176 %) ISO27001 6 12 (0.176 %) ISO9000 7 5 (0.073 %) IAS 39 8 4 (0.059 %) ISO9001 9 1 (0.015 %) ISO17799 9 1 (0.015 %) TickIT 9 1 (0.015 %) HL7	System Software 1 114 (1.673 %) Active Directory 2 12 (0.176 %) NetBackup 3 6 (0.088 %) Terminal Services 4 5 (0.073 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 4 (0.059 %) Backup Exec 6 3 (0.044 %) MetaFrame 6 3 (0.044 %) Terminal Server 6 3 (0.044 %) MSMQ 7 2 (0.029 %) ISA Server 8 1 (0.015 %) Samba 8 1 (0.015 %) NFS 8 1 (0.015 %) Xen 8 1 (0.015 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 10 (0.147 %) CONTROL-M 2 7 (0.103 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 7 (0.103 %) AutoSys 3 6 (0.088 %) Unicenter 4 3 (0.044 %) MOM 5 2 (0.029 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.029 %) WSUS 5 2 (0.029 %) SCOM 6 1 (0.015 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 862 (12.65 %) Microsoft 2 840 (12.33 %) Oracle 3 439 (6.442 %) Sybase 4 298 (4.373 %) Business Objects 5 203 (2.979 %) Bloomberg 6 177 (2.597 %) Reuters 7 96 (1.409 %) Cognos 8 90 (1.321 %) Citrix 9 76 (1.115 %) Sun 10 69 (1.012 %) TIBCO 11 65 (0.954 %) Hyperion 12 50 (0.734 %) Lotus 13 44 (0.646 %) OpenLink 13 44 (0.646 %) SAP 14 43 (0.631 %) Siebel 15 34 (0.499 %) Trillium 16 32 (0.470 %) IBM 16 32 (0.470 %) HP 17 30 (0.440 %) ESRI 18 29 (0.426 %) Interwoven