The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 36 48 32
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -16
Contract jobs citing VBScript 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.298% 0.234% 0.797%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.552% 0.369% 1.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% +9.52%
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
181 271 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 53.87% 63.32% 58.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 140 74
Average daily rate £300 £305 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% +1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £215 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £410 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £14.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £39.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VBScript
Cambridgeshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VBScript across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cambridge VBScript Jobs Demand Trend

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VBScript across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge VBScript Daily Rate Trend

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBScript across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing VBScript also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VBScript.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Wise Package Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) MSI
2 2 (66.67%) InstallShield
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) AppSense
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL V3
3 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing VBScript also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VBScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Wise Package Studio
1 2 (66.67%) MSI
1 2 (66.67%) InstallShield
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Packager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) VB
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) AppSense