The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 61 52 46
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -6
Contract jobs citing VBScript 4 27 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.477% 2.422% 3.471%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.653% 10.15% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 12
Average daily rate - £370 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.82%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
242 266 370
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 28.84% 23.86% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 105 166
Average daily rate £360 £370 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% +8.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £235 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 17
Average hourly rate £17.00 £44.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.36% +120.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £44.00 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBScript
Berkshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) MSI
3 6 (66.67%) VB
3 6 (66.67%) Citrix
3 6 (66.67%) XenApp
4 5 (55.56%) InstallShield
4 5 (55.56%) Validation
5 4 (44.44%) Altiris
5 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
5 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
5 4 (44.44%) Windows XP
6 3 (33.33%) QA
6 3 (33.33%) Software Packaging
6 3 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Change Management
6 3 (33.33%) Finance
6 3 (33.33%) VMware
7 2 (22.22%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (22.22%) Publishing
7 2 (22.22%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
7 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (22.22%) Wise Package Studio
8 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
8 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
8 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
8 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
8 1 (11.11%) Client/Server

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (33.33%) Software Packaging
2 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) MSI
2 5 (55.56%) InstallShield
3 2 (22.22%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Applications Packager
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) MSI Packager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Validation
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) XenApp
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Citrix
3 4 (44.44%) Altiris
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) Intel