Windows Script Host (WSH)
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 908 969 1234
Rank change year-on-year +61 +265 -323
Permanent jobs citing WSH 2 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.010% 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.009% 0.032% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - - £49,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £36,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £38,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -33.04% +43.75%
75th Percentile £63,750 £45,188 £58,750
90th Percentile - £51,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £38,500 -
% change year-on-year +62.34% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WSH is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,107 31,145 63,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.37% 30.12% 40.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15,794 19,194 30,333
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,880 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

WSH
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WSH in the UK

WSH
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WSH in the UK

WSH
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WSH within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 - 2 £62,500 - 9
Work from Home +78 1 - - 5
UK excluding London -19 1 £62,500 +62.34% 5
London - 1 - - 5
South East - 1 £62,500 - 1

WSH
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware