Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 841 1047
Rank change year-on-year -2 +206 -265
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 71 123 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.27% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53 93 182
10th Percentile £42,750 £29,850 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £39,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +37.58% -7.65% -10.53%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,195 44,728 84,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.69% 43.23% 53.73%
Number of salaries quoted 24,962 28,546 44,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 71 £54,000 +8.00% 15
UK excluding London -15 68 £54,000 +37.58% 6
Work from Home +70 45 £54,000 +12.46% 5
South East +31 37 £59,000 +18.00% 3
North of England +52 28 £50,000 +57.48% 1
Yorkshire +88 17 £50,000 +66.67% 1
North West +17 11 £52,500 +54.41%
London +104 3 £67,500 +35.00% 9
West Midlands +21 2 £38,500 -30.00% 1
Midlands +16 2 £38,500 -23.00% 2
South West -27 1 - -

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (21.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) HFM
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) Azure
2 20 (28.17%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (28.17%) Entra ID
3 18 (25.35%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (19.72%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.31%) AWS
6 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.63%) TestFlight
7 3 (4.23%) SaaS
8 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.82%) IaaS
8 2 (2.82%) PaaS
9 1 (1.41%) GitHub
9 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.25%) DHCP
1 30 (42.25%) DNS
2 26 (36.62%) Firewall
3 4 (5.63%) FTP
3 4 (5.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.45%) Dreamweaver
3 3 (4.23%) Selenium
4 2 (2.82%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.41%) Git
5 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.41%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) JUnit
5 1 (1.41%) Maven
5 1 (1.41%) MSI
5 1 (1.41%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Banking
4 6 (8.45%) Marketing
5 5 (7.04%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.63%) Retail
7 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Back Office
8 1 (1.41%) Front Office
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Active Directory Specialist
1 20 (28.17%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (21.13%) Support Specialist
3 14 (19.72%) Active Directory Support
4 13 (18.31%) Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 7 (9.86%) Systems Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Programmer
7 6 (8.45%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (8.45%) Trainee
7 6 (8.45%) Trainee Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Trainee Programmer
8 4 (5.63%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.63%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Junior
8 4 (5.63%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.63%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) .NET
2 14 (19.72%) ARM Templates
3 12 (16.90%) HTML
4 11 (15.49%) ASP.NET
5 7 (9.86%) Classic ASP
5 7 (9.86%) CSS
5 7 (9.86%) HTML5
6 6 (8.45%) jQuery
6 6 (8.45%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (8.45%) Web Services
7 5 (7.04%) EDI
7 5 (7.04%) XML
8 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.63%) EDIFACT
8 4 (5.63%) JSON
8 4 (5.63%) React
8 4 (5.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (2.82%) SOAP
9 2 (2.82%) WSH
10 1 (1.41%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.17%) PKI
2 19 (26.76%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.04%) Clustering
4 4 (5.63%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.41%) Derivative
7 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.41%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 60 (84.51%) Windows
2 41 (57.75%) Windows Server
3 33 (46.48%) Linux
4 26 (36.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (22.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (16.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (16.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.63%) Android
8 4 (5.63%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.41%) CentOS
9 1 (1.41%) Debian
9 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.41%) Scientific Linux
9 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.99%) Release Management
2 20 (28.17%) Analytics
2 20 (28.17%) Log Analytics
3 17 (23.94%) Agile
4 16 (22.54%) DevOps
5 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
5 15 (21.13%) ITIL
6 14 (19.72%) Identity Management
6 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (19.72%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (19.72%) Privileged Identity Management
6 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (19.72%) RBAC
6 14 (19.72%) Service Management
7 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (14.08%) Project Management
8 7 (9.86%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.04%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (5.63%) Fintech
10 4 (5.63%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (66.20%) PowerShell
2 38 (53.52%) VB
3 36 (50.70%) C#
4 28 (39.44%) SQL
5 14 (19.72%) Bicep
6 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
6 13 (18.31%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.45%) VB.NET
7 6 (8.45%) VBA
8 5 (7.04%) Java
9 4 (5.63%) ActionScript
9 4 (5.63%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (5.63%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.63%) Python
9 4 (5.63%) Swift
10 1 (1.41%) Formula Language
10 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (40.85%) Degree
2 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
3 22 (30.99%) DV Cleared
4 14 (19.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (49.30%) Active Directory
2 14 (19.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (19.72%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (16.90%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.63%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (28.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (21.13%) SCCM
3 14 (19.72%) Kubernetes
3 14 (19.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (19.72%) SCOM
3 14 (19.72%) WSUS
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 46 (64.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.72%) VMware
3 13 (18.31%) Cisco
4 4 (5.63%) Citrix
5 3 (4.23%) ArcSight
5 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.41%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) Pega
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) UiPath