The first table below looks at the demand for VBScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VBScript over the 3 months to 23 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 57 61 45
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -16
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 1 2 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.191% 0.324% 2.735%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.340% 0.639% 4.336%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 11
Average salary £41,000 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.66% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
294 313 369
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 56.11% 50.73% 63.08%
Number of salaries quoted 251 279 323
Average salary £33,750 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £21,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
South Yorkshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 7 (100.00%) VB
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) MSI
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 7
3 5 (71.43%) Wise Package Studio
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) InstallShield
3 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (42.86%) Capita
6 2 (28.57%) SCCM
6 2 (28.57%) Citrix
6 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
7 1 (14.29%) C#
7 1 (14.29%) HTML
7 1 (14.29%) SQL
7 1 (14.29%) .NET
7 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
7 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) MSI
2 5 (71.43%) Wise Package Studio
2 5 (71.43%) InstallShield
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Applications Packager
2 2 (28.57%) Software Packager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows 7
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Validation
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) VB
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Capita
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix