The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 38 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VBScript 2 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.667% - 2.208%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.500% - 7.368%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £475 - £280
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 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+20.68% +38.09%
All Programming Languages
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
80 108 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 26.67% 29.75% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 47
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £450 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £32.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% -2.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £32.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
VBScript
Wiltshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 11 (100.00%) SCOM
2 10 (90.91%) MOM
2 10 (90.91%) Finance
3 9 (81.82%) VB
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
4 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (45.45%) WMI
6 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
8 1 (9.091%) Compuware
8 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
8 1 (9.091%) HP
8 1 (9.091%) Dell
8 1 (9.091%) EMC
8 1 (9.091%) Citrix
8 1 (9.091%) SAN
8 1 (9.091%) Novell
8 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
8 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
8 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
8 1 (9.091%) DHCP
8 1 (9.091%) DNS
8 1 (9.091%) ZENworks
8 1 (9.091%) Sophos
8 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
8 1 (9.091%) SCCM

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
1 1 (9.091%) DHCP
1 1 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
1 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
1 1 (9.091%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (9.091%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) VB
2 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (9.091%) vSphere
1 1 (9.091%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) SCOM
2 10 (90.91%) MOM
3 5 (45.45%) WMI
4 1 (9.091%) ZENworks
4 1 (9.091%) SCCM
4 1 (9.091%) NetBackup
4 1 (9.091%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Compuware
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Dell
2 1 (9.091%) EMC
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
2 1 (9.091%) Novell
2 1 (9.091%) Sophos
2 1 (9.091%) Wyse
2 1 (9.091%) VMware