VBScript Jobs

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VBScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 835 807 1081
Rank change year-on-year -28 +274 -260
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 69 112 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54 85 175
10th Percentile £36,375 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £74,250 £68,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £38,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +40.26% -17.20% -2.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34,656 38,951 93,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.54% 42.12% 53.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25,663 26,205 43,405
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 12 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 69 £54,000 +3.85% 17
UK excluding London -51 66 £54,000 +40.26% 10
Work from Home +42 51 £54,000 +8.00% 6
South East -30 34 £59,000 -19.73% 4
North of England +26 29 £50,000 +53.85% 2
Yorkshire +73 17 £50,000 +60.00% 2
North West -16 11 £52,500 +57.89%
London +68 3 £70,000 +34.62% 8
West Midlands -9 2 £38,500 -18.95% 3
Midlands -38 2 £38,500 -18.95% 3
North East - 1 £37,500 -
South West - 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 20 (28.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) HFM
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) Azure
2 25 (36.23%) Azure Monitor
2 25 (36.23%) Entra ID
3 23 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (27.54%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.84%) AWS
6 4 (5.80%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.90%) SaaS
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) IaaS
8 1 (1.45%) PaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.45%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 36 (52.17%) DHCP
1 36 (52.17%) DNS
2 31 (44.93%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) FTP
3 4 (5.80%) HTTP
4 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.45%) OLAP
5 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) 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%) 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%) TestNG
General
1 37 (53.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Finance
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Marketing
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.80%) Retail
7 3 (4.35%) Banking
8 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Back Office
9 1 (1.45%) Front Office
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Active Directory Specialist
1 25 (36.23%) Azure Specialist
2 20 (28.99%) Support Specialist
3 19 (27.54%) Active Directory Support
4 10 (14.49%) 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%) Junior
8 4 (5.80%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Support Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Engineering Specialist
10 2 (2.90%) SQL Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.54%) ARM Templates
2 16 (23.19%) .NET
3 8 (11.59%) HTML
4 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET
5 6 (8.70%) Classic ASP
5 6 (8.70%) HTML5
5 6 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (7.25%) EDI
7 4 (5.80%) EDIFACT
7 4 (5.80%) JSON
7 4 (5.80%) XML
8 3 (4.35%) CSS
9 2 (2.90%) jQuery
9 2 (2.90%) Web Services
9 2 (2.90%) WSH
10 1 (1.45%) ADO
10 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.45%) RESTful
10 1 (1.45%) SOAP
10 1 (1.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.23%) PKI
2 21 (30.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.25%) Clustering
4 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Derivative
6 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (84.06%) Windows
2 45 (65.22%) Windows Server
3 34 (49.28%) Linux
4 32 (46.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (30.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.45%) Android
9 1 (1.45%) 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%) SUSE
9 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) Analytics
1 25 (36.23%) Log Analytics
1 25 (36.23%) Release Management
2 20 (28.99%) Agile
2 20 (28.99%) CI/CD
2 20 (28.99%) ITIL
3 19 (27.54%) DevOps
3 19 (27.54%) Identity Management
3 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (27.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 19 (27.54%) Privileged Identity Management
3 19 (27.54%) RBAC
3 19 (27.54%) Service Management
4 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (14.49%) Project Management
6 4 (5.80%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (5.80%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (4.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 48 (69.57%) PowerShell
2 43 (62.32%) VB
3 37 (53.62%) C#
4 25 (36.23%) SQL
5 19 (27.54%) Bicep
6 10 (14.49%) T-SQL
7 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.70%) VBA
9 5 (7.25%) VB.NET
10 4 (5.80%) ActionScript
10 4 (5.80%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (2.90%) Java
11 2 (2.90%) Python
12 1 (1.45%) Formula Language
12 1 (1.45%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.45%) PHP
12 1 (1.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (49.28%) Degree
2 26 (37.68%) Security Cleared
3 25 (36.23%) DV Cleared
4 19 (27.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (59.42%) Active Directory
2 19 (27.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (27.54%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 12 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (36.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (30.43%) SCCM
3 20 (28.99%) SCOM
4 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
4 19 (27.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (27.54%) WSUS
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
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 1 (1.45%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.45%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) Pega
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) UiPath