Yorkshire VBA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) skills within the Yorkshire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Andover Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath 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 Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Huntingdon Jersey Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughton Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester 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 Spalding St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Surrey Swindon Telford Thame Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Widnes Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	161	180
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching permanent IT job ads	94	81
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	1.464 %
Salaries quoted	75	63
Average minimum salary	£29,700	£26,876
Average salary	£31,381	£28,506
% change on same period last year	+10.08 %
Average maximum salary	£33,063	£30,137
UK excluding London average salary	£33,263	£31,773
% change on same period last year	+4.68 %
Programming Languages Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4699	5533
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.529 %	2.307 %
Salaries quoted	3909	4640
Average minimum salary	£30,172	£29,810
Average salary	£32,680	£31,977
% change on same period last year	+2.19 %
Average maximum salary	£35,188	£34,145
UK excluding London average salary	£35,268	£35,641
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
VBA England

VBA
Demand Trend

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

VBA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBA across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire	+13	69	£32,839	+16.47 %
North Yorkshire	+21	14	£26,409	+0.74 %
South Yorkshire	-14	8	£25,214	-9.86 %

VBA England

VBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

1 137 (74.46 %) SQL 2 111 (60.33 %) SQL Server 3 107 (58.15 %) VB 4 102 (55.43 %) .NET 5 70 (38.04 %) VB6 6 57 (30.98 %) C# 7 56 (30.43 %) VB.NET 8 52 (28.26 %) MS Access 9 51 (27.72 %) MS Excel 10 48 (26.09 %) ASP.NET 11 43 (23.37 %) SQL Server 2005 12 41 (22.28 %) Degree 12 41 (22.28 %) Oracle 13 38 (20.65 %) Finance 14 29 (15.76 %) Microsoft

15 28 (15.22 %) SQL Server 2000 16 27 (14.67 %) Transact-SQL 17 20 (10.87 %) MS Office 17 20 (10.87 %) Data Analysis 18 18 (9.783 %) Microsoft Certification 18 18 (9.783 %) ASP 18 18 (9.783 %) SAS 19 17 (9.239 %) XML 20 16 (8.696 %) IIS 20 16 (8.696 %) Java 21 14 (7.609 %) HTML 21 14 (7.609 %) Datawarehouse 21 14 (7.609 %) MCSD 22 13 (7.065 %) VBScript 22 13 (7.065 %) SharePoint

VBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 102 (55.43 %) .NET 2 48 (26.09 %) ASP.NET 3 18 (9.783 %) ASP 4 17 (9.239 %) XML 5 14 (7.609 %) HTML 6 12 (6.522 %) WebServices 7 11 (5.978 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 7 (3.804 %) CSS 9 6 (3.261 %) ADO.NET 10 5 (2.717 %) SOAP 10 5 (2.717 %) RSS 10 5 (2.717 %) WAP 11 4 (2.174 %) XSLT 12 2 (1.087 %) XHTML 12 2 (1.087 %) AJAX 13 1 (0.543 %) WebSphere 13 1 (0.543 %) .NET Framework 13 1 (0.543 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 18 (9.783 %) SAS 2 16 (8.696 %) IIS 3 13 (7.065 %) SharePoint 4 2 (1.087 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (0.543 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.543 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 51 (27.72 %) MS Excel 2 20 (10.87 %) MS Office 3 12 (6.522 %) Spreadsheet 4 10 (5.435 %) SPSS 5 7 (3.804 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (1.630 %) assyst 2 1 (0.543 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.543 %) VoIP 1 1 (0.543 %) WAN 1 1 (0.543 %) DHCP 1 1 (0.543 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (0.543 %) VPN 1 1 (0.543 %) DNS 1 1 (0.543 %) Internet 1 1 (0.543 %) Firewall 1 1 (0.543 %) Cisco PIX 1 1 (0.543 %) Cisco ASA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 111 (60.33 %) SQL Server 2 52 (28.26 %) MS Access 3 43 (23.37 %) SQL Server 2005 4 28 (15.22 %) SQL Server 2000 5 14 (7.609 %) Datawarehouse 6 12 (6.522 %) BusinessObjects 7 10 (5.435 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 5 (2.717 %) DTS 9 4 (2.174 %) Informix 9 4 (2.174 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 3 (1.630 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 2 (1.087 %) Base SAS 11 2 (1.087 %) SQL Server 2008 12 1 (0.543 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 12 1 (0.543 %) Oracle Reports 12 1 (0.543 %) OLAP 12 1 (0.543 %) Crystal Reports 12 1 (0.543 %) ETL 12 1 (0.543 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 3 (1.630 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.543 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (0.543 %) WinRunner 2 1 (0.543 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.543 %) Rational Robot 2 1 (0.543 %) NUnit 2 1 (0.543 %) SilkTest 2 1 (0.543 %) TestComplete 2 1 (0.543 %) Ant	General 1 38 (20.65 %) Finance 2 10 (5.435 %) Construction 3 8 (4.348 %) Health 3 8 (4.348 %) Retail 4 4 (2.174 %) Insurance 4 4 (2.174 %) Marketing 4 4 (2.174 %) Law 4 4 (2.174 %) Advertising 4 4 (2.174 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (1.630 %) Pensions 6 2 (1.087 %) Banking 7 1 (0.543 %) Games 7 1 (0.543 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.543 %) Education
Job Titles 1 79 (42.93 %) Analyst 2 73 (39.67 %) Developer 3 29 (15.76 %) .NET Developer 4 22 (11.96 %) Programmer 5 21 (11.41 %) Graduate 6 19 (10.33 %) Support Analyst 6 19 (10.33 %) MI Analyst 7 18 (9.783 %) Analyst Programmer 8 17 (9.239 %) Software Developer 9 15 (8.152 %) Applications Support Analyst 9 15 (8.152 %) Applications Support 10 14 (7.609 %) C# Developer 11 12 (6.522 %) .NET Programmer 12 11 (5.978 %) VB Analyst Programmer 12 11 (5.978 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 12 11 (5.978 %) VB.NET Programmer 13 10 (5.435 %) SQL Server Analyst 13 10 (5.435 %) Server Analyst 13 10 (5.435 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer 13 10 (5.435 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (5.978 %) Management Information System 1 11 (5.978 %) Replication 2 8 (4.348 %) Mainframe 3 5 (2.717 %) Statistics 4 3 (1.630 %) Mathematics 4 3 (1.630 %) Credit Risk 5 2 (1.087 %) IBM Mainframe 5 2 (1.087 %) Data Conversion 5 2 (1.087 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (0.543 %) Multithreading 6 1 (0.543 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 6 (3.261 %) UNIX 1 6 (3.261 %) Windows 2 4 (2.174 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (1.630 %) Linux 4 1 (0.543 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.543 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (10.87 %) Data Analysis 2 12 (6.522 %) Process Management 3 11 (5.978 %) Business Intelligence 3 11 (5.978 %) Asset Management 3 11 (5.978 %) OO 4 9 (4.891 %) Migration 5 8 (4.348 %) Data Modelling 6 7 (3.804 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (2.717 %) Data Management 7 5 (2.717 %) Project Management 7 5 (2.717 %) Risk Management 7 5 (2.717 %) Business Development 7 5 (2.717 %) Time Management 7 5 (2.717 %) Data Migration 8 4 (2.174 %) Test Scripting 8 4 (2.174 %) Web Development 8 4 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (2.174 %) UML 8 4 (2.174 %) CRM 9 3 (1.630 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 137 (74.46 %) SQL 2 107 (58.15 %) VB 3 70 (38.04 %) VB6 4 57 (30.98 %) C# 5 56 (30.43 %) VB.NET 6 27 (14.67 %) Transact-SQL 7 16 (8.696 %) Java 8 13 (7.065 %) VBScript 9 9 (4.891 %) C++ 10 6 (3.261 %) Python 11 4 (2.174 %) C 12 2 (1.087 %) JavaScript 12 2 (1.087 %) PHP 13 1 (0.543 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 41 (22.28 %) Degree 2 18 (9.783 %) Microsoft Certification 3 14 (7.609 %) MCSD 4 3 (1.630 %) MCAD 4 3 (1.630 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 2 (1.087 %) MCDBA 6 1 (0.543 %) MCP 6 1 (0.543 %) ACCA 6 1 (0.543 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.717 %) QA 2 2 (1.087 %) SLA 3 1 (0.543 %) Basel II	System Software 1 2 (1.087 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 41 (22.28 %) Oracle 2 29 (15.76 %) Microsoft 3 12 (6.522 %) Business Objects 4 11 (5.978 %) Citrix 5 5 (2.717 %) Trillium 5 5 (2.717 %) Teradata 6 4 (2.174 %) Cognos 7 3 (1.630 %) IBM 8 1 (0.543 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.543 %) SAP 8 1 (0.543 %) Lotus 8 1 (0.543 %) CODA 8 1 (0.543 %) Agresso 8 1 (0.543 %) Brio