Wales VBA Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the Wales 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 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Great Yarmouth Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lothian Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Drayton Market Harborough Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Newcastle Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Reading Reigate Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tonbridge Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	102
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	3.055 %	1.294 %
Salaries quoted	26	11
Average minimum salary	£24,962	£20,727
Average salary	£28,865	£22,273
% change on same period last year	+29.59 %
Average maximum salary	£32,769	£23,818
UK excluding London average salary	£33,161	£32,949
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Programming Languages Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	851	850
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.551 %	0.379 %
Salaries quoted	785	794
Average minimum salary	£29,742	£27,673
Average salary	£33,334	£30,938
% change on same period last year	+7.74 %
Average maximum salary	£36,926	£34,203
UK excluding London average salary	£35,693	£35,932
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
VBA UK

VBA
Demand Trend

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

VBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

VBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBA within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 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
South Wales	+25	26	£28,865	+22.45 %

VBA UK

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 36 (73.47 %) VB 1 36 (73.47 %) SQL Server 2 33 (67.35 %) .NET 3 28 (57.14 %) VB.NET 4 21 (42.86 %) VB6 5 18 (36.73 %) ASP.NET 6 17 (34.69 %) ASP 7 15 (30.61 %) SQL Server 7 7 15 (30.61 %) SQL Server 2000 7 15 (30.61 %) SQL Server 2005 8 13 (26.53 %) SQL 9 10 (20.41 %) Security Cleared 10 7 (14.29 %) Pensions 10 7 (14.29 %) MS Office 10 7 (14.29 %) Finance

10 7 (14.29 %) Pharmaceutical 10 7 (14.29 %) Banking 10 7 (14.29 %) Retail 10 7 (14.29 %) Investment Banking 11 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 11 6 (12.24 %) XML 12 5 (10.20 %) Windows 12 5 (10.20 %) MS Excel 12 5 (10.20 %) MS Access 12 5 (10.20 %) Oracle 12 5 (10.20 %) Management Information System 12 5 (10.20 %) .NET Framework 13 4 (8.163 %) Games 13 4 (8.163 %) ISEB 13 4 (8.163 %) TestDirector

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 33 (67.35 %) .NET 2 18 (36.73 %) ASP.NET 3 17 (34.69 %) ASP 4 6 (12.24 %) XML 5 5 (10.20 %) .NET Framework 6 4 (8.163 %) HTML 7 2 (4.082 %) XSLT 7 2 (4.082 %) ODBC 7 2 (4.082 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.041 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 7 (14.29 %) MS Office 2 5 (10.20 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.082 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (4.082 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (73.47 %) SQL Server 2 15 (30.61 %) SQL Server 7 2 15 (30.61 %) SQL Server 2000 2 15 (30.61 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (10.20 %) MS Access 4 3 (6.122 %) DB2 5 2 (4.082 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 4 (8.163 %) TestDirector 2 3 (6.122 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 7 (14.29 %) Pensions 1 7 (14.29 %) Finance 1 7 (14.29 %) Pharmaceutical 1 7 (14.29 %) Banking 1 7 (14.29 %) Retail 1 7 (14.29 %) Investment Banking 2 4 (8.163 %) Games 3 3 (6.122 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (2.041 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 20 (40.82 %) Analyst 2 16 (32.65 %) Developer 2 16 (32.65 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (30.61 %) VB.NET Developer 4 10 (20.41 %) Solutions Analyst 5 6 (12.24 %) Analyst Developer 6 5 (10.20 %) Data Analyst 7 3 (6.122 %) Support Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Report Developer 8 2 (4.082 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.082 %) Software Developer 8 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.082 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (4.082 %) MI Analyst 8 2 (4.082 %) Test Specialist 8 2 (4.082 %) VBA Developer 9 1 (2.041 %) Developer Analyst 9 1 (2.041 %) Junior Developer 9 1 (2.041 %) IT Support Analyst 9 1 (2.041 %) VB Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (10.20 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.041 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 5 (10.20 %) Windows 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows Mobile 3 2 (4.082 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.41 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (6.122 %) RAD 3 2 (4.082 %) Data Analysis 3 2 (4.082 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (4.082 %) System Testing 3 2 (4.082 %) Systems Analysis 3 2 (4.082 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (4.082 %) ERP 4 1 (2.041 %) Migration 4 1 (2.041 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 36 (73.47 %) VB 2 28 (57.14 %) VB.NET 3 21 (42.86 %) VB6 4 13 (26.53 %) SQL 5 4 (8.163 %) JavaScript 5 4 (8.163 %) VBScript 6 3 (6.122 %) C++ 6 3 (6.122 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (4.082 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 4 (8.163 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 2 5 (10.20 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.122 %) Sybase 3 3 (6.122 %) IBM