The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBA over the 3 months to 24 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 29 44 37
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -7
Permanent jobs citing VBA 15 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 4.054% 0.533% 0.778%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.95% 0.966% 1.887%
Number of salaries quoted 15 2 0
Average salary £31,000 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.73% -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Programming Languages
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
137 207 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 37.03% 55.20% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 111 155 95
Average salary £33,000 £41,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.51% +17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £32,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,700 £55,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBA
Bedfordshire

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton VBA Salary Trend

VBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA across the Luton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Luton VBA Salary Histogram

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 18 (94.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (89.47%) Crystal Reports
2 17 (89.47%) VB
2 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 17 (89.47%) MS Excel
3 16 (84.21%) .NET
4 15 (78.95%) MS Access
5 14 (73.68%) Oracle
5 14 (73.68%) VB.NET
5 14 (73.68%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (68.42%) MS Office
7 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
7 12 (63.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (31.58%) Performance Improvement
8 6 (31.58%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (26.32%) SQL
10 3 (15.79%) VB6
10 3 (15.79%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
11 2 (10.53%) MVC
11 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
11 2 (10.53%) Web Services
11 2 (10.53%) XML
11 2 (10.53%) C#
11 2 (10.53%) IIS
11 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
11 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
11 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (10.53%) NUnit
11 2 (10.53%) WCF

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 16 (84.21%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) WCF
2 2 (10.53%) WF
2 2 (10.53%) jQuery
2 2 (10.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (10.53%) NHibernate
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.263%) ASP
3 1 (5.263%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (89.47%) MS Excel
2 13 (68.42%) MS Office
3 1 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (89.47%) Crystal Reports
3 15 (78.95%) MS Access
4 14 (73.68%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.263%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) NUnit
1 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Forecast Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Capacity Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) MI Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Information Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Data Steward
5 1 (5.263%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Junior
5 1 (5.263%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
1 12 (63.16%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (31.58%) Performance Improvement
2 6 (31.58%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.53%) MVC
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Use Case
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
3 2 (10.53%) Web Development
4 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) VB
2 14 (73.68%) VB.NET
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) VB6
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.263%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
1 1 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.263%) Business Objects