The first table below looks at the demand for VBA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Rank 42 58 71
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +13
Permanent jobs citing VBA 12 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.326% 0.200% 0.567%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.186% 0.498% 1.242%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 4
Average salary £45,000 £38,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.88% +28.33%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
194 201 322
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 37.60% 40.28% 45.61%
Number of salaries quoted 143 163 243
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBA
South East

VBA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex VBA Salary Trend

VBA
Salary Histogram

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

Middlesex VBA Salary Histogram

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 11 (73.33%) MS Project
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (66.67%) MS Office
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (53.33%) MS Excel
3 8 (53.33%) QA
4 7 (46.67%) Statistics
4 7 (46.67%) Mathematics
4 7 (46.67%) Subversion
4 7 (46.67%) SQLBase
4 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
4 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET
4 7 (46.67%) Web Services
4 7 (46.67%) VB
4 7 (46.67%) .NET
4 7 (46.67%) C#
4 7 (46.67%) Java
4 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (33.33%) Project Management
5 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
6 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
6 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (26.67%) Demand Management
7 3 (20.00%) Degree
7 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Broadband

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (46.67%) .NET
1 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET
1 7 (46.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (73.33%) MS Project
2 10 (66.67%) MS Office
3 8 (53.33%) MS Excel
4 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
5 4 (26.67%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (46.67%) SQLBase
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
1 7 (46.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Programmer
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) .NET Developer
1 7 (46.67%) VBA Developer
1 7 (46.67%) .NET Programmer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Operations Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Operations Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Report Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Incident Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Major Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Statistics
1 7 (46.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (13.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.667%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Project Management
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Demand Management
3 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.667%) ITSM
5 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
5 1 (6.667%) Service Management
5 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.667%) Change Management
5 1 (6.667%) ITIL V3
5 1 (6.667%) ITIL
5 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) VB
2 7 (46.67%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) QA
2 1 (6.667%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Business Objects
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle