The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 115 120 119
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -1
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 4 7 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.217% 0.343% 0.471%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.308% 0.455% 0.616%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 5
Average salary £41,250 £27,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1298 1539 1624
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 70.31% 75.37% 76.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1187 1334 1479
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
Cambridgeshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge VBScript Jobs Demand Trend

VBScript
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VBScript across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VBScript.

1 11 (84.62%) C#
1 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) ActiveX
3 6 (46.15%) VB
3 6 (46.15%) MFC
3 6 (46.15%) C++
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Firmware
3 6 (46.15%) WPF
3 6 (46.15%) Signal Processing
3 6 (46.15%) OLE
4 5 (38.46%) Drupal
4 5 (38.46%) MVC
4 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
4 5 (38.46%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (38.46%) ASP
4 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 5 (38.46%) CSS
4 5 (38.46%) HTML
4 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 5 (38.46%) PHP
4 5 (38.46%) ColdFusion
5 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (30.77%) Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Content Management
6 3 (23.08%) CMS
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
7 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VBScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) ActiveX
2 6 (46.15%) MFC
2 6 (46.15%) WPF
2 6 (46.15%) OLE
3 5 (38.46%) ASP
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
3 5 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (38.46%) HTML
4 1 (7.692%) JSON
4 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Drupal
1 5 (38.46%) ColdFusion
2 3 (23.08%) CMS
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
3 1 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) LAN
1 1 (7.692%) WAN
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Publishing
2 1 (7.692%) Back Office
2 1 (7.692%) Music
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Developer
2 6 (46.15%) C++ Developer
2 6 (46.15%) C# Developer
2 6 (46.15%) C++/C# Developer
2 6 (46.15%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Web Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Firmware
2 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.692%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Signal Processing
2 5 (38.46%) MVC
3 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (23.08%) Content Management
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
6 1 (7.692%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) VB
2 6 (46.15%) C++
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) PHP
4 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.692%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) vSphere
1 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) VMware
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco
2 1 (7.692%) HP
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle