VBScript Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VBScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VBScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 468 578
Rank change year-on-year +7 +110 +73
Contract jobs citing VBScript 24 74 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.68% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 65 61
10th Percentile £334 £385 £235
25th Percentile £460 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £637 £612 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +34.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £32.92 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -37.85% -18.51%
UK median hourly rate - £32.92 £52.97
% change year-on-year - -37.85% -19.13%

All Programming Languages
England

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in England.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in England.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 8 £475 - 12
North of England +24 7 £465 - 3
South East +5 7 £550 -5.17% 4
North West +21 6 £551 - 2
South West - 2 £475 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.67%) Skype for Business
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) IIS
4 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) WhatsApp
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) DHCP
3 7 (29.17%) VLAN
4 4 (16.67%) LAN
4 4 (16.67%) Skype
4 4 (16.67%) VPN
4 4 (16.67%) WAN
4 4 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (8.33%) Firewall
5 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) MSI
3 1 (4.17%) AdminStudio
3 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Publishing
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Applications Packager
2 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared Application Packager
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Wintel Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Wintel Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) IAM Developer
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.17%) jQuery
1 1 (4.17%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OpenID
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
1 1 (4.17%) Web Services
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) CESG
3 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 12 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (33.33%) Linux
4 6 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (8.33%) Android
7 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Application Packaging
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (25.00%) Application Virtualisation
5 5 (20.83%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) Service Management
6 4 (16.67%) ITSM
7 3 (12.50%) Analytics
7 3 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) Time Management
8 2 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
8 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (8.33%) Server Building
8 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) VB
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) Degree
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.33%) MCP
5 2 (8.33%) MCSA
5 2 (8.33%) MCSE
6 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) JSP 440
2 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (29.17%) BitLocker
3 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (20.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.17%) vSphere
5 1 (4.17%) XenApp
5 1 (4.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) SCCM
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (12.50%) WSUS
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Packer
4 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
1 11 (45.83%) VMware
2 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) McAfee
4 2 (8.33%) Symantec
5 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) Moogsoft
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk