The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 51 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing VBScript 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.249% 0.767% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.585% 1.622% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £355 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% +9.52%
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
171 185 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 42.54% 47.31% 45.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 132 181
Average daily rate £600 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
VBScript
London

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf VBScript Daily Rate Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) VB
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) MS Excel
2 6 (85.71%) VBA
2 6 (85.71%) VB6
2 6 (85.71%) C#
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Market Risk
3 5 (71.43%) Business Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 5 (71.43%) MS Access
3 5 (71.43%) RAD
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
5 1 (14.29%) ASP
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) JSP
5 1 (14.29%) Struts
5 1 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) XSD
5 1 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (14.29%) JBoss
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (14.29%) Ant
5 1 (14.29%) JUnit
5 1 (14.29%) ActiveX
5 1 (14.29%) Migration

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) ASP
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) JSP
2 1 (14.29%) Struts
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSD
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (85.71%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MS Access
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Excel Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Excel VBA Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Developer
2 5 (71.43%) VBA Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Analysis
1 5 (71.43%) RAD
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) VB
2 6 (85.71%) VBA
2 6 (85.71%) VB6
2 6 (85.71%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft