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This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills across the UK 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank112114
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching permanent IT job ads34094053
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.835 %1.689 %
As % of the category below3.999 %3.664 %
Salaries quoted28343055
Average minimum salary£42,940£46,803
Average salary£47,894£50,984
% change on same period last year-6.05 %
Average maximum salary£52,849£55,165
UK excluding London average salary£33,351£31,773
% change on same period last year+4.96 %
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads85248110611
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled45.89 %46.11 %
Salaries quoted7227589246
Average minimum salary£37,393£39,239
Average salary£41,069£43,047
% change on same period last year-4.59 %
Average maximum salary£44,746£46,855
UK excluding London average salary£35,245£35,645
% change on same period last year-1.11 %

VBA
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VBA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VBA Demand Trend

VBA
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VBA within the UK.

VBA Salary Trend

VBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 within the UK.

VBA Salary Histogram

VBA
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-23305£48,276-5.86 %
LondonUp+22345£54,899-4.71 %
City of LondonUp+8874£57,253-2.75 %
South EastUp+21323£34,323-0.23 %
South WestUp+56176£33,391+5.37 %
East of EnglandUp+14149£34,428+8.21 %
YorkshireUp+1295£31,381+10.08 %
North WestUp+4093£31,427+25.60 %
BerkshireUp+8881£35,000-9.58 %
HertfordshireUp+681£37,161+14.47 %
West YorkshireUp+1270£32,839+16.47 %
SurreyDown-3667£34,839-0.55 %
Canary WharfUp+967£63,800+6.64 %
West MidlandsUp+1663£30,519+2.43 %
HampshireUp+2263£35,578-0.18 %
WiltshireUp+3958£37,738+17.62 %
Docklands, LondonDown-454£56,063-15.05 %
ScotlandUp+4353£32,609+3.29 %
SwindonUp+3152£38,592+15.20 %
BristolUp+152£31,467+8.58 %
LeedsUp+2046£33,531+23.08 %
ManchesterUp+4142£28,054+10.01 %
BuckinghamshireUp+4242£37,825+6.42 %
East MidlandsUp+1041£29,994+12.92 %
CambridgeshireUp+439£26,662-10.71 %
CheshireUp+1038£36,908+56.77 %
OxfordshireDown-130£32,107+2.14 %
EdinburghUp+3728£34,208+39.62 %
BradfordUp+326£32,921+14.50 %
WalesUp+2526£25,962+9.89 %

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs within the UK 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.

13797 (54.06 %)SQL
22651 (37.74 %)Finance
32543 (36.20 %).NET
42528 (35.99 %)C#
52395 (34.10 %)SQL Server
62186 (31.12 %)VB
71914 (27.25 %)Front Office
81454 (20.70 %)Banking
91412 (20.10 %)Derivative
101209 (17.21 %)MS Excel
111186 (16.88 %)C++
111186 (16.88 %)Degree
121086 (15.46 %)Oracle
131025 (14.59 %)XML
14905 (12.88 %)ASP.NET
15892 (12.70 %)Microsoft
16871 (12.40 %)Java
17830 (11.82 %)VB.NET
18764 (10.88 %)Windows
19721 (10.26 %)Investment Banking
20711 (10.12 %)Fixed Income
21672 (9.567 %)RAD
22666 (9.482 %)VB6
23658 (9.368 %)MS Office
24656 (9.339 %)SQL Server 2005
25604 (8.599 %)ASP
26595 (8.471 %)MS Access
27564 (8.030 %)Transact-SQL
28542 (7.716 %)Risk Management
29541 (7.702 %)UNIX

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12543 (36.20 %).NET
21025 (14.59 %)XML
3905 (12.88 %)ASP.NET
4604 (8.599 %)ASP
5532 (7.574 %)HTML
6321 (4.570 %)WinForms
7258 (3.673 %)WebServices
8215 (3.061 %).NET Framework
9179 (2.548 %)ADO
10161 (2.292 %)CSS
11155 (2.207 %)XSLT
12114 (1.623 %)AJAX
13104 (1.481 %)J2EE
14103 (1.466 %)ODBC
15100 (1.424 %)ADO.NET
15100 (1.424 %)STL
1696 (1.367 %)Middleware
1782 (1.167 %)XSL
1877 (1.096 %)ATL
1975 (1.068 %)DAO
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1275 (3.915 %)SAS
2206 (2.933 %)IIS
3178 (2.534 %)SharePoint
482 (1.167 %)BizTalk Server
549 (0.698 %)MS Exchange
549 (0.698 %)Tomcat
643 (0.612 %)CMS
742 (0.598 %)Lotus Notes
839 (0.555 %)Apache
937 (0.527 %)ArcGIS
1035 (0.498 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1129 (0.413 %)ArcSDE
1227 (0.384 %)Exchange Server 2003
1324 (0.342 %)Lotus Domino
1423 (0.327 %)WebSphere MQ
1522 (0.313 %)TIBCO EMS
1617 (0.242 %)WorkSite
1617 (0.242 %)WebLogic
1716 (0.228 %)MQSeries
1814 (0.199 %)Oracle Application Server
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11209 (17.21 %)MS Excel
2658 (9.368 %)MS Office
3366 (5.211 %)Spreadsheet
4110 (1.566 %)MS PowerPoint
596 (1.367 %)SPSS
638 (0.541 %)MS Visio
728 (0.399 %)MATLAB
817 (0.242 %)MS Project
914 (0.199 %)AutoCAD
1013 (0.185 %)InfoPath
117 (0.100 %)Photoshop
124 (0.057 %)RoboHelp
124 (0.057 %)CA Clarity
133 (0.043 %)Adobe Illustrator
142 (0.028 %)Open Workbench
142 (0.028 %)Paint Shop Pro
151 (0.014 %)FrameMaker
151 (0.014 %)Acrobat
151 (0.014 %)Revit
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
159 (0.840 %)Endur
237 (0.527 %)HFM
334 (0.484 %)Microsoft CRM
426 (0.370 %)Dynamics CRM
525 (0.356 %)SAP Retail
622 (0.313 %)Summit
720 (0.285 %)Dynamics GP
819 (0.271 %)Dynamics NAV
819 (0.271 %)Thomson PORTIA
918 (0.256 %)Cerner Millennium
1017 (0.242 %)RMDS
1116 (0.228 %)WebTrends
1116 (0.228 %)Navision
1116 (0.228 %)Google Analytics
1215 (0.214 %)Hyperion Planning
1215 (0.214 %)Hyperion Enterprise
1313 (0.185 %)SalesLogix
1410 (0.142 %)Capstone
157 (0.100 %)InvestOne
157 (0.100 %)Loan IQ
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1151 (2.150 %)Internet
2150 (2.136 %)Intranet
353 (0.755 %)WAN
451 (0.726 %)TCP/IP
548 (0.683 %)LAN
641 (0.584 %)SMTP
733 (0.470 %)Firewall
829 (0.413 %)VPN
928 (0.399 %)IMAP
1027 (0.384 %)VoIP
1122 (0.313 %)DNS
1218 (0.256 %)DHCP
1317 (0.242 %)Broadband
1410 (0.142 %)HTTP
159 (0.128 %)Extranet
168 (0.114 %)Wireless
175 (0.071 %)SSL
175 (0.071 %)LDAP
184 (0.057 %)GSM
184 (0.057 %)SAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12395 (34.10 %)SQL Server
2656 (9.339 %)SQL Server 2005
3595 (8.471 %)MS Access
4436 (6.207 %)SQL Server 2000
5408 (5.809 %)Crystal Reports
6345 (4.912 %)BusinessObjects
7256 (3.645 %)RDBMS
8208 (2.961 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9198 (2.819 %)Datawarehouse
10178 (2.534 %)DTS
11126 (1.794 %)SQL Server Integration Services
12109 (1.552 %)Oracle Reports
1393 (1.324 %)OLAP
1489 (1.267 %)Oracle 9i
1579 (1.125 %)MySQL
1673 (1.039 %)GIS
1772 (1.025 %)Oracle 10g
1863 (0.897 %)ETL
1959 (0.840 %)Oracle 8/8i
2053 (0.755 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1212 (3.018 %)Visual Studio
261 (0.868 %)QuickTest Pro
341 (0.584 %)TestDirector
440 (0.569 %)WinRunner
539 (0.555 %)VSS/SourceSafe
636 (0.513 %)Dreamweaver
731 (0.441 %)NUnit
830 (0.427 %)ClearCase
929 (0.413 %)LoadRunner
1021 (0.299 %)QADirector
1113 (0.185 %)Rational Robot
1212 (0.171 %)Subversion
1212 (0.171 %)Oracle Forms
1310 (0.142 %)Ant
148 (0.114 %)JUnit
148 (0.114 %)PowerBuilder
157 (0.100 %)Eclipse
157 (0.100 %)MSI
157 (0.100 %)Oracle APEX
166 (0.085 %)Flash
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12651 (37.74 %)Finance
21914 (27.25 %)Front Office
31454 (20.70 %)Banking
4721 (10.26 %)Investment Banking
5279 (3.972 %)Health
6257 (3.659 %)Pensions
7247 (3.517 %)Back Office
8222 (3.161 %)Education
9193 (2.748 %)Retail
10176 (2.506 %)Marketing
11175 (2.491 %)Insurance
12139 (1.979 %)Financial Institution
1386 (1.224 %)Law
1484 (1.196 %)Telecoms
1567 (0.954 %)Legal
1652 (0.740 %)Pharmaceutical
1739 (0.555 %)Manufacturing
1833 (0.470 %)Construction
1931 (0.441 %)Games
2028 (0.399 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13557 (50.64 %)Developer
22107 (30.00 %)Analyst
31076 (15.32 %)VBA Developer
4935 (13.31 %)Excel Developer
5814 (11.59 %)C# Developer
6624 (8.884 %)Excel VBA Developer
7531 (7.560 %).NET Developer
8420 (5.979 %)Applications Support
9386 (5.495 %)Programmer
9386 (5.495 %)Support Analyst
10347 (4.940 %)Front Office Developer
11302 (4.300 %)SQL Developer
12301 (4.285 %)Excel Specialist
13300 (4.271 %)RAD Developer
14299 (4.257 %)Senior Developer
15279 (3.972 %)Consultant
15279 (3.972 %)C++ Developer
16276 (3.929 %)Analyst Programmer
17270 (3.844 %)Business Analyst
18253 (3.602 %)Analyst Developer
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11412 (20.10 %)Derivative
2711 (10.12 %)Fixed Income
3434 (6.179 %)Equities
4426 (6.065 %)Mathematics
5421 (5.994 %)Equity Derivative
6408 (5.809 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
7274 (3.901 %)Credit Derivative
8203 (2.890 %)Computer Science
9149 (2.121 %)Management Information System
10133 (1.894 %)Interest Rate Derivative
11129 (1.837 %)Statistics
12114 (1.623 %)Client/Server
13113 (1.609 %)Market Risk
1493 (1.324 %)Exotic Derivative
1587 (1.239 %)Physics
1681 (1.153 %)NHS
1780 (1.139 %)Multithreading
1879 (1.125 %)Credit Risk
1947 (0.669 %)Data Extraction
2044 (0.626 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1764 (10.88 %)Windows
2541 (7.702 %)UNIX
3197 (2.805 %)Windows Server 2003
4194 (2.762 %)Linux
5126 (1.794 %)Windows XP
688 (1.253 %)Solaris
780 (1.139 %)Windows 2000
866 (0.940 %)Windows 2000 Server
912 (0.171 %)VMS
106 (0.085 %)Windows Vista
115 (0.071 %)Windows Server 2008
124 (0.057 %)AIX
133 (0.043 %)NetWare
133 (0.043 %)Windows NT
142 (0.028 %)HPUX
142 (0.028 %)Windows Mobile
151 (0.014 %)Red Hat Linux
151 (0.014 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1672 (9.567 %)RAD
2542 (7.716 %)Risk Management
3412 (5.866 %)OO
4281 (4.001 %)Asset Management
5247 (3.517 %)Project Management
6240 (3.417 %)Business Intelligence
6240 (3.417 %)Business Analysis
7226 (3.218 %)Data Analysis
8174 (2.477 %)Investment Management
9169 (2.406 %)CRM
10152 (2.164 %)ITIL
11140 (1.993 %)UML
12133 (1.894 %)Agile Software Development
13126 (1.794 %)Migration
14125 (1.780 %)Data Management
15121 (1.723 %)E-Commerce
16114 (1.623 %)User Acceptance Testing
17107 (1.523 %)Web Development
1893 (1.324 %)System Testing
1991 (1.296 %)Data Modelling
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13797 (54.06 %)SQL
22528 (35.99 %)C#
32186 (31.12 %)VB
41186 (16.88 %)C++
5871 (12.40 %)Java
6830 (11.82 %)VB.NET
7666 (9.482 %)VB6
8564 (8.030 %)Transact-SQL
9393 (5.595 %)JavaScript
10272 (3.872 %)Perl
11239 (3.403 %)VBScript
12228 (3.246 %)C
13201 (2.862 %)PL/SQL
14125 (1.780 %)Shell Script
15102 (1.452 %)PHP
1663 (0.897 %)Python
1760 (0.854 %)VC++
1831 (0.441 %)SAS Macro
1925 (0.356 %)Korn
2017 (0.242 %)DHTML
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11186 (16.88 %)Degree
2168 (2.392 %)Microsoft Certification
371 (1.011 %)PhD
455 (0.783 %)ISEB
541 (0.584 %)MCP
636 (0.513 %)MCSD
729 (0.413 %)MCDBA
825 (0.356 %)PRINCE2 Certification
924 (0.342 %)MCSE
1020 (0.285 %)CIMA
1119 (0.271 %)MCSA
1218 (0.256 %)Cisco Certification
1218 (0.256 %)ACCA
1317 (0.242 %)CCNA
1317 (0.242 %)MCAD
1414 (0.199 %)ITIL Certification
1513 (0.185 %)Oracle Certification
1612 (0.171 %)MCTS
1612 (0.171 %)MCPD
179 (0.128 %)CISA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1161 (2.292 %)QA
242 (0.598 %)SLA
323 (0.327 %)Basel II
49 (0.128 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
57 (0.100 %)ISO9001
63 (0.043 %)HL7
72 (0.028 %)MiFID
81 (0.014 %)TickIT
81 (0.014 %)ISO27001
81 (0.014 %)ISO9000
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1140 (1.993 %)Active Directory
213 (0.185 %)VMware Infrastructure
312 (0.171 %)MSMQ
48 (0.114 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
56 (0.085 %)Terminal Services
56 (0.085 %)VMware GSX
56 (0.085 %)NetBackup
62 (0.028 %)ISA Server
62 (0.028 %)Terminal Server
71 (0.014 %)Samba
71 (0.014 %)Backup Exec
71 (0.014 %)Xen
71 (0.014 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
19 (0.128 %)Unicenter
19 (0.128 %)CONTROL-M
28 (0.114 %)AutoSys
34 (0.057 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
43 (0.043 %)MOM
52 (0.028 %)Norton AntiVirus
52 (0.028 %)WSUS
61 (0.014 %)BMC PATROL
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11086 (15.46 %)Oracle
2892 (12.70 %)Microsoft
3431 (6.136 %)Sybase
4345 (4.912 %)Business Objects
5209 (2.976 %)Reuters
5209 (2.976 %)Bloomberg
6126 (1.794 %)Hyperion
7116 (1.651 %)SAP
8112 (1.595 %)Cognos
9111 (1.580 %)Citrix
1081 (1.153 %)TIBCO
1177 (1.096 %)OpenLink
1263 (0.897 %)Lotus
1341 (0.584 %)Trillium
1440 (0.569 %)Adobe
1537 (0.527 %)ESRI
1636 (0.513 %)IBM
1636 (0.513 %)Siebel
1636 (0.513 %)Teradata
1734 (0.484 %)VMware