VBA contracting

[DimPrawn]

More importantly I thought VBA was now the equivalent of genital warts. (Something the patient wants shot of as fast and painlessly as possible...)

It's hard to believe I know, but all these banks and casino investment companies run everything from Access and Excel. I think they spent all the billions on bonuses...

VBA is still crazy popular in the City for powering spreadsheets used by analysts, traders and risk desks.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

Shopping list requirements. If you see a contract now asking for the top 20 hot skills on the planet, paying more than absolute peanuts, it's probably a fake.

[MrMarkyMark]

It's hard to believe I know, but all these banks and casino investment companies run everything from Access and Excel. I think they spent all the billions on bonuses...

VBA is still crazy popular in the City for powering spreadsheets used by analysts, traders and risk desks.

All jokes aside, this.

The decommissioning as fast as it is being built is true too, mainly due to BCBS compliance.
Kerrrching

[smileyface]

Shopping list requirements. If you see a contract now with less than 20 hot skills on the essential list, it's probably a fake.

Meaning they prob DON'T need all that?

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

Meaning they prob DON'T need all that, but some tosser of a manager has decided to list all the components of his teams technology stack, as it makes him feel more important

[smileyface]

FTFY

The more they quote, the more skilled the contractor needs to be and the more £ they expect.

[MarillionFan]

Wow 450 sobs for Excel. Who'd have thunk it.

[DimPrawn]

Wow 450 sobs for Excel. Who'd have thunk it.

Used to be nearer £600 pd in London for that....

[MrMarkyMark]

Wow 450 sobs for Excel. Who'd have thunk it.

Giving it some thought?

[bobspud]

It's hard to believe I know, but all these banks and casino investment companies run everything from Access and Excel. I think they spent all the billions on bonuses...

VBA is still crazy popular in the City for powering spreadsheets used by analysts, traders and risk desks.

Yes I have seen a few of them in the distant past and can knock out a mean spreadsheet myself when needs must. But thats a nice neat use case for a comparatively small market. Everyone else that I have looked at helping migrate to new platforms wants Access and Excel monsters gone. Especially If the information needs to log who has seen it or changed it.