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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 65 60 58
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -2
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 2 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.341% 1.205% 0.852%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.629% 1.983% 1.355%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 5
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +81.81%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
318 353 369
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 54.17% 60.76% 62.86%
Number of salaries quoted 282 308 298
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
West Midlands

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) ISA Server
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) WLAN
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (25.00%) Market Research
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) WLAN
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Market Research
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) ISA Server
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco