Lancashire VBA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the Lancashire 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Andover Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Cornwall County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Jersey Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughton Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Peterlee Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Thame Tonbridge Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Widnes Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	74
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.656 %	1.473 %
Salaries quoted	10	8
Average minimum salary	£21,100	£23,250
Average salary	£22,750	£25,063
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
Average maximum salary	£24,400	£26,875
UK excluding London average salary	£33,012	£31,800
% change on same period last year	+3.80 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	604	543
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.330 %	0.228 %
Salaries quoted	485	450
Average minimum salary	£28,012	£29,297
Average salary	£30,805	£31,560
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Average maximum salary	£33,597	£33,822
UK excluding London average salary	£35,257	£35,638
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
VBA North West

VBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VBA across the Lancashire 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 citing VBA across the Lancashire region.

VBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Preston	-5	5	£23,000	-13.20 %

VBA North West

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 13 (54.17 %) SQL Server 3 12 (50.00 %) XML 4 11 (45.83 %) .NET 5 10 (41.67 %) VB 6 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 6 8 (33.33 %) Finance 7 6 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 7 6 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 7 6 (25.00 %) Business Objects 8 5 (20.83 %) IIS 8 5 (20.83 %) Visual Studio 8 5 (20.83 %) ASP 8 5 (20.83 %) VB.NET 8 5 (20.83 %) Oracle

8 5 (20.83 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (20.83 %) C# 8 5 (20.83 %) WebServices 8 5 (20.83 %) Management Information System 8 5 (20.83 %) ODBC 8 5 (20.83 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (20.83 %) Insurance 8 5 (20.83 %) QA 8 5 (20.83 %) Telecoms 9 4 (16.67 %) VB6 9 4 (16.67 %) Data Analysis 9 4 (16.67 %) Systems Analysis 9 4 (16.67 %) MS Access 9 4 (16.67 %) CRM 9 4 (16.67 %) ASP.NET

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 12 (50.00 %) XML 2 11 (45.83 %) .NET 3 5 (20.83 %) ASP 3 5 (20.83 %) ODBC 3 5 (20.83 %) WebServices 4 4 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (12.50 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 5 (20.83 %) IIS 2 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Project 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (54.17 %) SQL Server 2 6 (25.00 %) Crystal Reports 2 6 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 3 5 (20.83 %) Datawarehouse 4 4 (16.67 %) MS Access 5 3 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) Visual Studio	General 1 8 (33.33 %) Finance 2 5 (20.83 %) Telecoms 2 5 (20.83 %) Insurance 3 3 (12.50 %) Pensions 3 3 (12.50 %) Back Office 4 1 (4.167 %) Health 4 1 (4.167 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 13 (54.17 %) Developer 2 8 (33.33 %) Analyst 3 6 (25.00 %) MI Analyst 4 5 (20.83 %) Programmer 5 4 (16.67 %) Report Analyst 5 4 (16.67 %) Data Analyst 5 4 (16.67 %) VB Developer 6 3 (12.50 %) Systems Developer 6 3 (12.50 %) Junior 6 3 (12.50 %) Junior Analyst 6 3 (12.50 %) VB6 Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) Report Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Access Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) VBA Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Developer Analyst 8 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (20.83 %) Management Information System 2 3 (12.50 %) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) CRM 1 4 (16.67 %) Data Analysis 1 4 (16.67 %) Systems Analysis 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (4.167 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 10 (41.67 %) VB 3 5 (20.83 %) VB.NET 3 5 (20.83 %) Transact-SQL 3 5 (20.83 %) C# 4 4 (16.67 %) VB6 5 3 (12.50 %) C++ 6 1 (4.167 %) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (20.83 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (25.00 %) Business Objects 2 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 3 3 (12.50 %) Cognos 4 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 2 (8.333 %) SAP