VBScript Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 70 96
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing VBScript 23 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.93% 1.63% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 6.18% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 1
10th Percentile £506 £525 -
25th Percentile £525 £535 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £555 £369
Median % change year-on-year +9.06% +50.54% -18.11%
75th Percentile £608 £616 £392
90th Percentile - £619 -
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £550 £369
% change year-on-year +10.00% +49.25% -18.11%

All Programming Languages
Reading

VBScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 289 275 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.27% 26.42% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 216 247
10th Percentile £363 £369 £354
25th Percentile £425 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £613
90th Percentile £688 £714 £659
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +106.45%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in Reading

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in Reading.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in Reading

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in Reading

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 15 (65.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (69.57%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (69.57%) Azure Storage
2 16 (69.57%) Entra ID
3 15 (65.22%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) DHCP
1 16 (69.57%) DNS
1 16 (69.57%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Robot Framework
1 3 (13.04%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (65.22%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (60.87%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (60.87%) Support Specialist
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Packager
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) PKI
1 16 (69.57%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (30.43%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (95.65%) Linux
2 22 (95.65%) Windows Server
3 15 (65.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (65.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (30.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
2 22 (95.65%) DevOps
3 19 (82.61%) Release Management
4 16 (69.57%) Analytics
4 16 (69.57%) Identity Management
4 16 (69.57%) ITIL
4 16 (69.57%) Log Analytics
4 16 (69.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 16 (69.57%) Privileged Identity Management
4 16 (69.57%) RBAC
4 16 (69.57%) Service Management
5 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
5 15 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (30.43%) Application Packaging
6 7 (30.43%) Application Virtualisation
6 7 (30.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Scrum
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (69.57%) C#
2 16 (69.57%) VB
3 15 (65.22%) Bicep
4 7 (30.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 23 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (69.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (69.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (65.22%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
1 16 (69.57%) Virtual Desktop
1 16 (69.57%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (69.57%) SCCM
1 16 (69.57%) SCOM
1 16 (69.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) VMware