The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 47 34 52
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +18
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 4 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.183% 2.564% 1.190%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.951% 3.704% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% +12.72%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
205 108 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 60.65% 69.23% 70.24%
Number of salaries quoted 119 98 170
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% -4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
Cheshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) EMC
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) HTTP
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (20.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) NAS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Administrator
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Administrator
3 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (40.00%) Senior Windows Administrator
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 2 (40.00%) Server Administrator
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Sun