VBScript Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 587 649
Rank change year-on-year +126 +62 -83
Contract jobs citing VBScript 74 76 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 0.43% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 61 101
10th Percentile £385 £235 £185
25th Percentile £475 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £538
90th Percentile £612 £669 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £410
% change year-on-year - +34.15% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £23.88 - £36.60
25th Percentile £26.71 - £53.25
Median hourly rate £32.92 £52.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% -18.51% -
75th Percentile £40.65 - £70.31
90th Percentile £44.37 - £75.38
UK median hourly rate £32.92 £52.97 £65.50
% change year-on-year -37.85% -19.13% -

All Programming Languages
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +36 48 £580 +0.87% 3
London +101 20 £475 +35.71% 7
North of England +32 2 - - 1
North West +16 2 - -
Midlands +22 1 £300 -18.92% 2
East Midlands +18 1 £300 -45.45% 1
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 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.41%) IIS
2 4 (5.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) Azure
2 17 (22.97%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (21.62%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (21.62%) Azure Storage
3 16 (21.62%) Entra ID
4 15 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.35%) AWS
5 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (35.14%) DHCP
1 26 (35.14%) DNS
2 25 (33.78%) Firewall
3 4 (5.41%) IPv4
4 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) OLAP
2 1 (1.35%) Power BI
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Robot Framework
1 6 (8.11%) Selenium
2 2 (2.70%) TestComplete
3 1 (1.35%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.35%) Git
3 1 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) Subversion
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Finance
4 3 (4.05%) French Language
5 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Local Government
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Support Specialist
2 15 (20.27%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (20.27%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (18.92%) Active Directory Specialist
4 10 (13.51%) Analyst
5 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Applications Packager
8 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Market Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Market Data Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Senior
8 5 (6.76%) Solutions Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Application Integration Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Applications Support
10 3 (4.05%) Integration Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.27%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.70%) Middleware
2 2 (2.70%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (2.70%) WSH
3 1 (1.35%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.68%) Client/Server
2 16 (21.62%) PKI
2 16 (21.62%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.76%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.35%) Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (75.68%) Windows
2 35 (47.30%) Linux
3 33 (44.59%) Windows Server
4 18 (24.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (22.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (20.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (16.22%) Windows 10
8 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (5.41%) Windows 7
9 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.89%) Agile
2 30 (40.54%) DevOps
3 25 (33.78%) Release Management
4 24 (32.43%) Application Packaging
5 22 (29.73%) Application Virtualisation
6 20 (27.03%) ITIL
7 18 (24.32%) Service Management
8 17 (22.97%) CI/CD
9 16 (21.62%) Analytics
9 16 (21.62%) Identity Management
9 16 (21.62%) Log Analytics
9 16 (21.62%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (21.62%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (21.62%) RBAC
10 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (20.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (10.81%) Test Automation
13 6 (8.11%) Data Integration
14 5 (6.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (86.49%) PowerShell
2 24 (32.43%) VB
3 20 (27.03%) C#
3 20 (27.03%) Python
4 15 (20.27%) Bicep
5 11 (14.86%) SQL
6 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.05%) C++
8 2 (2.70%) Delphi
9 1 (1.35%) Ada
Qualifications
1 34 (45.95%) DV Cleared
1 34 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) Degree
3 16 (21.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (2.70%) SLA
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 23 (31.08%) Active Directory
2 21 (28.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (21.62%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (21.62%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (8.11%) XenApp
5 2 (2.70%) BitLocker
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.35%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (39.19%) SCCM
2 19 (25.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (22.97%) SCOM
4 16 (21.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
4 16 (21.62%) WSUS
5 2 (2.70%) WMI
6 1 (1.35%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.35%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.35%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.35%) Simpana
Vendors
1 23 (31.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (28.38%) VMware
3 8 (10.81%) Citrix
4 6 (8.11%) Ivanti
4 6 (8.11%) Symantec
5 3 (4.05%) ArcSight
5 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.70%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.70%) IBM
6 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.70%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.35%) Commvault
7 1 (1.35%) Dell
7 1 (1.35%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (1.35%) EMC
7 1 (1.35%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.35%) Proofpoint