The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Kent 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 30 34 27
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Contract jobs citing VBScript 8 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 3.077% 0.816% 5.051%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.511% 2.703% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 11
Average daily rate £280 £500 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +86.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £460 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £540 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £305 £278
% change year-on-year
+14.75% +9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.28% +16.66%
All Programming Languages
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
94 74 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 36.15% 30.20% 40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 37 67
Average daily rate £350 £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £465 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 6
Average hourly rate £35.79 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.48% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £17.50 £170.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VBScript
South East

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Maidstone - 4 £278 -
Rochester - - - - 1
VBScript
South East

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (82.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (82.61%) Windows 7
4 18 (78.26%) Wise Package Studio
4 18 (78.26%) QA
4 18 (78.26%) SCCM
4 18 (78.26%) MSI
4 18 (78.26%) MCP
5 15 (65.22%) Migration
5 15 (65.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 13 (56.52%) Windows XP
7 6 (26.09%) Finance
7 6 (26.09%) Local Government
8 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
8 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
9 4 (17.39%) DNS
9 4 (17.39%) DHCP
9 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
9 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
10 3 (13.04%) Citrix
10 3 (13.04%) VMware
10 3 (13.04%) PKI
10 3 (13.04%) SCOM
10 3 (13.04%) Juniper
10 3 (13.04%) Firewall
10 3 (13.04%) IPsec
10 3 (13.04%) Terminal Services
10 3 (13.04%) VPN
10 3 (13.04%) IPv6

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) DHCP
1 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) IPsec
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
2 3 (13.04%) IPv6
3 2 (8.696%) LAN
3 2 (8.696%) WLAN
3 2 (8.696%) WAN
4 1 (4.348%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) Wise Package Studio
1 18 (78.26%) MSI
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
1 6 (26.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Applications Packager
2 4 (17.39%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Server Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.696%) Server Support
4 2 (8.696%) Server Support Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Project Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) PKI
2 1 (4.348%) NHS
2 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (82.61%) Windows 7
3 13 (56.52%) Windows XP
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (8.696%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Migration
2 1 (4.348%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.348%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (78.26%) MCP
3 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (78.26%) QA
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.04%) Terminal Services
4 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (78.26%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Citrix
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Juniper
3 2 (8.696%) HP
3 2 (8.696%) Dell
3 2 (8.696%) EMC
4 1 (4.348%) Veritas