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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 839 1046
Rank change year-on-year -5 +207 -256
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 70 113 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.27% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55 86 184
10th Percentile £37,250 £31,250 £30,500
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% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £54,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,125 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £38,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year +40.26% -15.85% -3.68%

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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 May 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 28 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 +43 70 £54,000 +8.00% 20
UK excluding London -22 66 £54,000 +40.26% 15
Work from Home +76 49 £54,000 +10.74% 8
South East 0 34 £59,000 -19.73% 8
North of England +60 29 £50,000 +57.48% 3
Yorkshire +84 17 £50,000 +66.67% 3
North West +12 11 £52,500 +57.89%
London +122 4 £67,500 +35.00% 6
West Midlands +11 2 £38,500 -18.95% 3
Midlands -6 2 £38,500 -18.95% 3
South West -26 1 - -
North East - 1 £37,500 -

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 18 (25.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) HFM
1 1 (1.43%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) Azure
2 23 (32.86%) Azure Monitor
2 23 (32.86%) Entra ID
3 21 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (24.29%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.57%) AWS
6 4 (5.71%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.29%) TestFlight
8 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.86%) SaaS
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub
9 1 (1.43%) IaaS
9 1 (1.43%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (48.57%) DHCP
1 34 (48.57%) DNS
2 29 (41.43%) Firewall
3 4 (5.71%) FTP
3 4 (5.71%) HTTP
4 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) OLAP
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.57%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) JUnit
3 1 (1.43%) Maven
3 1 (1.43%) MSI
3 1 (1.43%) Selenium
3 1 (1.43%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.43%) TestNG
General
1 35 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Marketing
5 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.71%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Active Directory Specialist
1 23 (32.86%) Azure Specialist
2 18 (25.71%) Support Specialist
3 17 (24.29%) Active Directory Support
4 13 (18.57%) Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 7 (10.00%) Systems Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Programmer
7 6 (8.57%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (8.57%) Trainee
7 6 (8.57%) Trainee Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Trainee Programmer
8 4 (5.71%) Junior
8 4 (5.71%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.71%) Technical Support Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) .NET
2 17 (24.29%) ARM Templates
3 11 (15.71%) HTML
4 10 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 7 (10.00%) Classic ASP
5 7 (10.00%) HTML5
6 6 (8.57%) CSS
6 6 (8.57%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (7.14%) EDI
7 5 (7.14%) jQuery
7 5 (7.14%) Web Services
7 5 (7.14%) XML
8 4 (5.71%) EDIFACT
8 4 (5.71%) JSON
9 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.29%) React
9 3 (4.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 2 (2.86%) SOAP
10 2 (2.86%) WSH
11 1 (1.43%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.86%) PKI
2 21 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.14%) Clustering
4 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (4.29%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (82.86%) Windows
2 43 (61.43%) Windows Server
3 32 (45.71%) Linux
4 30 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (27.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (4.29%) Android
9 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.43%) CentOS
10 1 (1.43%) Debian
10 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.43%) Scientific Linux
10 1 (1.43%) SUSE
10 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Analytics
1 23 (32.86%) Log Analytics
1 23 (32.86%) Release Management
2 18 (25.71%) Agile
2 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
2 18 (25.71%) ITIL
3 17 (24.29%) DevOps
3 17 (24.29%) Identity Management
3 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (24.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 17 (24.29%) Privileged Identity Management
3 17 (24.29%) RBAC
3 17 (24.29%) Service Management
4 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (14.29%) Project Management
6 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (5.71%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (4.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 46 (65.71%) PowerShell
2 41 (58.57%) VB
3 38 (54.29%) C#
4 28 (40.00%) SQL
5 17 (24.29%) Bicep
6 12 (17.14%) JavaScript
6 12 (17.14%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.57%) VB.NET
7 6 (8.57%) VBA
8 4 (5.71%) ActionScript
8 4 (5.71%) ActionScript 2.0
8 4 (5.71%) Java
9 3 (4.29%) Objective-C
9 3 (4.29%) Swift
10 2 (2.86%) Python
11 1 (1.43%) Formula Language
11 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (45.71%) Degree
2 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
3 23 (32.86%) DV Cleared
4 17 (24.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 11 (15.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (55.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (24.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (24.29%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 12 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.71%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (32.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 19 (27.14%) SCCM
3 18 (25.71%) SCOM
4 17 (24.29%) Kubernetes
4 17 (24.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (24.29%) WSUS
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (68.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.57%) Cisco
2 13 (18.57%) VMware
3 4 (5.71%) Citrix
4 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.43%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Pega
5 1 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) UiPath