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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank - 63 67
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 0 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk - 0.539% 0.309%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.955% 0.495%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 2
Average salary - £27,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
424 314 404
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 60.83% 56.37% 62.44%
Number of salaries quoted 399 273 358
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
East of England

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) NetApp
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) VMFS
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) XenServer
2 3 (60.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) NFS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Flex
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) LINQ
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (20.00%) LINQ
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Document Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) VB
1 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) VMFS
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (60.00%) XenServer
2 3 (60.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) NFS
4 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) NetApp
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper