VBScript Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 188 225
Rank change year-on-year +36 +37 -23
Contract jobs citing VBScript 48 38 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.87% 0.65% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.01% 2.35% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 27
10th Percentile £475 £322 £185
25th Percentile £525 £525 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +53.33% -17.58%
75th Percentile £608 £620 £386
90th Percentile - £693 £588
England median daily rate £550 £550 £400
% change year-on-year - +37.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.92 £52.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year -37.85% -18.51% -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,196 1,615 2,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.65% 27.71% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,151 1,367
10th Percentile £325 £333 £339
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 87
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +9 24 £605 +10.00% 2
Berkshire -2 23 £605 +10.00% 2
Hampshire +7 18 £555 -14.62%
East Sussex - 4 £475 -
West Sussex - 2 £475 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 -
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 31 (64.58%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 16 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 15 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (45.83%) DHCP
1 22 (45.83%) DNS
2 21 (43.75%) Firewall
3 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) OLAP
1 1 (2.08%) Power BI
1 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Robot Framework
1 6 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.08%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 19 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) French Language
4 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (31.25%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (29.17%) Support Specialist
3 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Solutions Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Application Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Applications Packager
6 3 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) SSRS Developer
8 1 (2.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 18 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 16 (33.33%) PKI
2 16 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (10.42%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.08%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 47 (97.92%) Windows
2 35 (72.92%) Linux
3 33 (68.75%) Windows Server
4 18 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (35.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (22.92%) Windows 10
8 6 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (8.33%) Windows 7
9 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (64.58%) Agile
2 30 (62.50%) DevOps
3 24 (50.00%) Release Management
4 18 (37.50%) Application Packaging
4 18 (37.50%) Application Virtualisation
4 18 (37.50%) ITIL
5 16 (33.33%) Analytics
5 16 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 16 (33.33%) Log Analytics
5 16 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 16 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
5 16 (33.33%) RBAC
5 16 (33.33%) Service Management
6 15 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 5 (10.42%) SDLC
9 5 (10.42%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 47 (97.92%) PowerShell
2 23 (47.92%) VB
3 18 (37.50%) Python
4 16 (33.33%) C#
5 15 (31.25%) Bicep
6 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (70.83%) DV Cleared
1 34 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (31.25%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 22 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 19 (39.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (12.50%) XenApp
5 2 (4.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.08%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (52.08%) SCCM
2 16 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (33.33%) SCOM
2 16 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) VMware
2 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.50%) Citrix
3 6 (12.50%) Ivanti
3 6 (12.50%) Symantec
4 3 (6.25%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds