VBScript Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VBScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 450 462
Rank change year-on-year -107 +12 +117
Contract jobs citing VBScript 30 25 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.074% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.27% 0.30% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 65
10th Percentile £300 £286 £385
25th Percentile £306 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
75th Percentile £623 £588 £608
90th Percentile £690 £632 £612
UK median daily rate £350 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £26.71
Median hourly rate - - £32.92
75th Percentile - - £40.65
90th Percentile - - £44.37
UK median hourly rate - - £32.92
% change year-on-year - - -37.85%

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 10,948 8,256 10,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.05% 33.87% 29.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,270 5,726 7,931
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.36%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 218 440
10th Percentile £42.33 £25.26 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.74 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +2.67%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VBScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

VBScript job vacancy trend in England

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VBScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VBScript

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in England

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VBScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VBScript

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 3 May 2026. 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
North West -32 11 £603 +9.30% 5
North of England -57 11 £603 +29.57% 5
South East -56 9 £344 -37.50% 2
Midlands - 5 £388 -
West Midlands - 5 £388 -
London -67 3 £200 -55.56% 6
South West -25 2 £500 +5.26%
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (36.67%) Skype for Business
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) Skype
2 10 (33.33%) DHCP
2 10 (33.33%) DNS
2 10 (33.33%) VLAN
3 8 (26.67%) LAN
3 8 (26.67%) VPN
3 8 (26.67%) WAN
4 7 (23.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) HP UFT
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) MSI
3 3 (10.00%) InstallShield
4 1 (3.33%) AdminStudio
4 1 (3.33%) Selenium
4 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Architect
1 7 (23.33%) Technical Architect
1 7 (23.33%) Test Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Applications Packager
4 2 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) HFM Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Windows
2 17 (56.67%) Windows 10
3 11 (36.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Disk Encryption
1 11 (36.67%) ITSM
2 10 (33.33%) Service Management
3 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (26.67%) Functional Testing
5 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
8 3 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 3 (10.00%) Application Packaging
8 3 (10.00%) ITIL
8 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (6.67%) Compatibility Testing
9 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 2 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation
9 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
9 2 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (43.33%) VB
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) C#
5 2 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) GAAP
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) BitLocker
2 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (60.00%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (6.67%) Blue Prism
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Hyperion
5 1 (3.33%) Micro Focus
5 1 (3.33%) NetApp
5 1 (3.33%) Netskope