Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 825 860 1030
Rank change year-on-year +35 +170 -250
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 69 121 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53 92 184
10th Percentile £42,750 £29,675 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,375 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £38,500 £42,750
% change year-on-year +40.26% -9.94% -10.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,203 43,593 84,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.21% 53.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,989 27,864 43,488
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,925 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 69 £54,000 +8.00% 12
UK excluding London -4 65 £54,000 +40.26% 5
Work from Home +79 46 £54,000 +12.46% 7
South East +7 34 £59,000 +18.00% 3
North of England +47 28 £50,000 +61.29% 1
Yorkshire +85 17 £50,000 +66.67%
North West +10 11 £52,500 +54.41%
London +104 4 £67,500 +35.00% 7
West Midlands +11 2 £38,500 -24.88%
Midlands -8 2 £38,500 -21.03% 1
South West -30 1 - -

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) HFM
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (28.99%) Entra ID
3 18 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (20.29%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.84%) AWS
6 4 (5.80%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.80%) TestFlight
7 3 (4.35%) SaaS
8 2 (2.90%) IaaS
8 2 (2.90%) PaaS
9 1 (1.45%) GitHub
9 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (43.48%) DHCP
1 30 (43.48%) DNS
2 27 (39.13%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) FTP
3 4 (5.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.45%) Power BI
3 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.70%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) JUnit
3 1 (1.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.45%) MSI
3 1 (1.45%) Selenium
3 1 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 32 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Banking
4 6 (8.70%) Marketing
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.80%) Retail
7 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Back Office
8 1 (1.45%) Front Office
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory Specialist
1 20 (28.99%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (21.74%) Support Specialist
3 14 (20.29%) Active Directory Support
4 13 (18.84%) Developer
5 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 7 (10.14%) Systems Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Programmer
7 6 (8.70%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (8.70%) Trainee
7 6 (8.70%) Trainee Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Trainee Programmer
8 4 (5.80%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.80%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Junior
8 4 (5.80%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) .NET
2 14 (20.29%) ARM Templates
3 12 (17.39%) HTML
4 11 (15.94%) ASP.NET
5 7 (10.14%) Classic ASP
5 7 (10.14%) CSS
5 7 (10.14%) HTML5
6 6 (8.70%) jQuery
6 6 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (8.70%) Web Services
7 5 (7.25%) EDI
7 5 (7.25%) XML
8 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.80%) EDIFACT
8 4 (5.80%) JSON
8 4 (5.80%) React
8 4 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (4.35%) WSH
10 2 (2.90%) SOAP
11 1 (1.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.99%) PKI
2 19 (27.54%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (8.70%) Clustering
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.45%) Derivative
6 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (84.06%) Windows
2 40 (57.97%) Windows Server
3 30 (43.48%) Linux
4 27 (39.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (24.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.80%) Android
8 4 (5.80%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.45%) CentOS
9 1 (1.45%) Debian
9 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.45%) Scientific Linux
9 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.99%) Analytics
1 20 (28.99%) Log Analytics
1 20 (28.99%) Release Management
2 15 (21.74%) Agile
2 15 (21.74%) CI/CD
2 15 (21.74%) ITIL
3 14 (20.29%) DevOps
3 14 (20.29%) Identity Management
3 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (20.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (20.29%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (20.29%) RBAC
3 14 (20.29%) Service Management
4 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (14.49%) Project Management
5 7 (10.14%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (5.80%) Fintech
6 4 (5.80%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (5.80%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) PowerShell
2 38 (55.07%) VB
3 36 (52.17%) C#
4 28 (40.58%) SQL
5 14 (20.29%) Bicep
6 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
6 13 (18.84%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.70%) VB.NET
7 6 (8.70%) VBA
8 5 (7.25%) Java
9 4 (5.80%) ActionScript
9 4 (5.80%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (5.80%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.80%) Swift
10 2 (2.90%) Python
11 1 (1.45%) Formula Language
11 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (42.03%) Degree
2 22 (31.88%) Security Cleared
3 21 (30.43%) DV Cleared
4 14 (20.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (20.29%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (18.84%) Hyper-V
3 13 (18.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (21.74%) SCCM
3 14 (20.29%) Kubernetes
3 14 (20.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (20.29%) SCOM
3 14 (20.29%) WSUS
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 47 (68.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Cisco
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Citrix
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.90%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.45%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.45%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Pega
6 1 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) UiPath