VBScript Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VBScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VBScript over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 567 668
Rank change year-on-year +97 +101 -81
Contract jobs citing VBScript 80 69 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 0.43% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 54 81
10th Percentile £465 £209 £203
25th Percentile £508 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +22.22% +16.88%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £538
90th Percentile - £646 £650
UK median daily rate £553 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +0.45% +22.22% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £42.49 - £32.40
25th Percentile £44.99 - £42.74
Median hourly rate £51.92 £52.97 £57.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -7.87% -
75th Percentile £58.59 - £67.50
90th Percentile £60.94 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.92 £52.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.98% -18.51% -

All Programming Languages
England

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in England.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in England.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +39 59 £580 +5.45% 4
London +81 15 £531 +41.67% 8
North of England +16 2 - - 2
North West +15 2 - -
Midlands +16 1 £300 -18.92% 3
East Midlands +7 1 £300 -45.45%
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.75%) IIS
2 3 (3.75%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.50%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Azure
2 22 (27.50%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (26.25%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (26.25%) Azure Storage
3 21 (26.25%) Entra ID
4 16 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.25%) AWS
5 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.75%) Firewall
2 28 (35.00%) DHCP
2 28 (35.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) IPv4
3 1 (1.25%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) OLAP
2 1 (1.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Robot Framework
1 6 (7.50%) Selenium
2 2 (2.50%) TestComplete
3 1 (1.25%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Finance
4 3 (3.75%) French Language
4 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (21.25%) Support Specialist
3 14 (17.50%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (17.50%) Azure Specialist
4 10 (12.50%) Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Senior
6 8 (10.00%) Applications Packager
7 7 (8.75%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Solutions Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Application Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared Application Packager
10 3 (3.75%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.00%) ADO
3 2 (2.50%) .NET
3 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 2 (2.50%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (2.50%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Client/Server
1 21 (26.25%) PKI
1 21 (26.25%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.25%) Clustering
3 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (75.00%) Windows
2 43 (53.75%) Linux
3 41 (51.25%) Windows Server
4 23 (28.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (26.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (15.00%) Windows 10
8 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (5.00%) Windows 7
9 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.25%) Agile
2 37 (46.25%) DevOps
3 32 (40.00%) Release Management
4 25 (31.25%) ITIL
5 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
6 21 (26.25%) Analytics
6 21 (26.25%) Application Packaging
6 21 (26.25%) Application Virtualisation
6 21 (26.25%) Identity Management
6 21 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (26.25%) Log Analytics
6 21 (26.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 21 (26.25%) Privileged Identity Management
6 21 (26.25%) RBAC
6 21 (26.25%) Service Management
7 16 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 12 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (11.25%) SDLC
11 7 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (81.25%) PowerShell
2 31 (38.75%) VB
3 26 (32.50%) Python
4 25 (31.25%) C#
5 21 (26.25%) Bicep
6 12 (15.00%) SQL
7 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.00%) C
8 4 (5.00%) Java
9 3 (3.75%) C++
10 2 (2.50%) Delphi
11 1 (1.25%) Ada
Qualifications
1 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 41 (51.25%) DV Cleared
3 31 (38.75%) Degree
4 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
5 21 (26.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Active Directory
2 22 (27.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (26.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (26.25%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.50%) XenApp
5 2 (2.50%) BitLocker
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.25%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (41.25%) SCCM
2 23 (28.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (26.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
3 21 (26.25%) SCOM
3 21 (26.25%) WSUS
4 2 (2.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (27.50%) VMware
3 6 (7.50%) Citrix
3 6 (7.50%) Ivanti
3 6 (7.50%) Symantec
4 4 (5.00%) ArcSight
4 4 (5.00%) Micro Focus
4 4 (5.00%) SAP
5 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) IBM
6 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds