The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 39 39 39
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 1 9 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 0.339% 2.703% 1.423%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.617% 4.839% 2.985%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 4
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -8.49%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
162 186 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 54.92% 55.86% 47.69%
Number of salaries quoted 152 168 127
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,850 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £72,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
London

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) ASP
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 4 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
4 3 (42.86%) VB.NET
4 3 (42.86%) UML
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 3 (42.86%) XML
4 3 (42.86%) Objective-C
4 3 (42.86%) WCF
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) VB
5 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
6 1 (14.29%) QARun
6 1 (14.29%) Selenium
6 1 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 1 (14.29%) UNIX
6 1 (14.29%) TOAD
6 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
6 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) ASP
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) XML
3 3 (42.86%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (14.29%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) QARun
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
1 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
1 1 (14.29%) TestPartner
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 3 (42.86%) VB.NET
2 3 (42.86%) Objective-C
3 2 (28.57%) VB
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle