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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Rank 50 57 55
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 5 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.040% 0.195% 0.209%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.283% 0.361% 0.405%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
Average salary £30,000 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Programming Languages
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
219 277 247
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 45.53% 53.89% 51.57%
Number of salaries quoted 193 236 228
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,875
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +0.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,050
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VBScript
Wiltshire

VBScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon VBScript Salary Trend

VBScript
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VBScript across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon VBScript Salary Histogram

VBScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 17 (94.44%) QA
2 16 (88.89%) SQL
3 15 (83.33%) VB
4 14 (77.78%) MS Office
5 13 (72.22%) OOP
5 13 (72.22%) OO
5 13 (72.22%) MS Excel
5 13 (72.22%) XML
5 13 (72.22%) QuickTest Pro
5 13 (72.22%) Automated Testing
5 13 (72.22%) Computer Science
6 9 (50.00%) ISEB
6 9 (50.00%) ISTQB
6 9 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 7 (38.89%) VBA
8 6 (33.33%) Manual Testing
9 5 (27.78%) Degree
10 4 (22.22%) Legal
10 4 (22.22%) Scrum
10 4 (22.22%) HP
10 4 (22.22%) System Testing
10 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
11 2 (11.11%) Finance
11 2 (11.11%) Sun
11 2 (11.11%) UNIX
11 2 (11.11%) Solaris
12 1 (5.556%) SAP
12 1 (5.556%) ERP
12 1 (5.556%) Epicor

VBScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 13 (72.22%) XML
Applications
1 14 (77.78%) MS Office
2 13 (72.22%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 4 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 9 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 9 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) VB Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Quality Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) VBA Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Junior
4 1 (5.556%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Junior Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) UNIX
1 2 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) OOP
1 13 (72.22%) OO
1 13 (72.22%) Automated Testing
2 9 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) System Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.556%) ERP
5 1 (5.556%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 15 (83.33%) VB
3 7 (38.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) ISEB
1 9 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (94.44%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (5.556%) SAP
3 1 (5.556%) Epicor