The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 24 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 South Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank - 28 35
Contract jobs citing VBScript 0 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - 2.682% 0.671%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 6.034% 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Average daily rate - £227 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +51.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £23.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+20.68% +38.09%
All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
81 116 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 30.80% 44.44% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 61 75
Average daily rate £288 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.86% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £135 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
Average hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.95% -43.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 £22.20 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £26.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBScript
Yorkshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) SCCM
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (50.00%) Citrix
4 3 (50.00%) MS Office
4 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) Terminal Services
4 3 (50.00%) XenApp
5 2 (33.33%) vSphere
5 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 2 (33.33%) MSI
5 2 (33.33%) AdminStudio
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (16.67%) CRM
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) MCSE
6 1 (16.67%) Clustering
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Office
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MSI
1 2 (33.33%) AdminStudio
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Integrator
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Server Support
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Server Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Server Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (50.00%) XenApp
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix