The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the West 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 West 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 81 86 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing VBScript 7 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.558% 0.319% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.609% 1.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £193 - -
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
435 496 365
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 34.66% 31.69% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 305 184
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 16
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.58 £11.75 £13.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £43.50 £40.75
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 West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire VBScript Daily Rate Trend

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VBScript across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire VBScript Daily Rate Histogram

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VBScript across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire VBScript Hourly Rate Trend

VBScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leeds -9 3 £125 -
Wakefield - 2 - -
Bradford - 1 £260 -
VBScript
Yorkshire

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 9 (69.23%) VB
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (30.77%) IIS
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
5 3 (23.08%) Windows 8
5 3 (23.08%) HP
5 3 (23.08%) Citrix
5 3 (23.08%) .NET
5 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
5 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (15.38%) SCCM
6 2 (15.38%) MCSE
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) ASP
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (15.38%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (15.38%) Automation Testing
6 2 (15.38%) XenApp
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds
7 1 (7.692%) XenServer
7 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 Development
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP
3 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.692%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) NAS
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.692%) VPN
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
1 1 (7.692%) SSL
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (7.692%) WinRunner
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
1 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
1 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Support Technician
3 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) iPad
1 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
1 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
1 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
1 1 (7.692%) iPhone
1 1 (7.692%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 8
4 1 (7.692%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X
4 1 (7.692%) Linux
4 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) Service Management
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) ITSM
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) VB
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.692%) Perl
3 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) MCSE
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.692%) MCSA
2 1 (7.692%) MCTS
2 1 (7.692%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
4 1 (7.692%) XenServer
4 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
4 1 (7.692%) vSphere
4 1 (7.692%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.692%) Apple
3 1 (7.692%) Informatica
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Wyse