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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 480 491
Rank change year-on-year -114 +11 +53
Contract jobs citing VBScript 35 29 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.32% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 29
10th Percentile £315 £220 £513
25th Percentile £329 £293 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £348 £605
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% -42.56% +10.00%
75th Percentile £518 £488 £608
90th Percentile £580 £625 £655
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £605
% change year-on-year +12.50% -33.88% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.95%

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 12,038 9,131 10,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.95% 32.82% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,784 6,184 7,375
10th Percentile £363 £349 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 265 303
10th Percentile £28.40 £31.25 £30.65
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -22 20 £360 -22.67% 3
North of England -52 20 £360 -2.81% 3
London -79 6 £650 +85.71% 2
South East -54 5 £450 -25.62%
West Midlands -50 2 £434 -27.67% 1
Midlands -51 2 £434 -27.67% 1
South West -53 2 £331 -4.06%
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 17 (48.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 17 (48.57%) Skype for Business
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) Skype
2 10 (28.57%) DHCP
2 10 (28.57%) DNS
3 9 (25.71%) VPN
4 7 (20.00%) VLAN
5 6 (17.14%) LAN
5 6 (17.14%) WAN
5 6 (17.14%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (8.57%) Network Security
6 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (8.57%) Wireless
7 2 (5.71%) Firewall
7 2 (5.71%) Internet
8 1 (2.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) MS Access
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) HP UFT
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) MSI
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Front Office
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Desktop Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Desktop Support
3 3 (8.57%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (5.71%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.86%) Applications Support
5 1 (2.86%) EPoS Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Lead Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Software Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Software Packaging
2 3 (8.57%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) Apache FOP
3 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) WCF
3 1 (2.86%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.86%) WinForms
3 1 (2.86%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) EPoS
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 25 (71.43%) Windows
2 22 (62.86%) Windows 10
3 17 (48.57%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.71%) Debian
4 2 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.86%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) ITSM
2 17 (48.57%) Disk Encryption
3 15 (42.86%) Service Management
4 8 (22.86%) User Experience
5 6 (17.14%) Change Management
6 5 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.43%) ITIL
7 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
8 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
8 3 (8.57%) ETRM
8 3 (8.57%) Incident Management
8 3 (8.57%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (8.57%) Logistics
8 3 (8.57%) Problem Management
8 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
8 3 (8.57%) Runbook
8 3 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) PowerShell
2 19 (54.29%) VB
3 8 (22.86%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (8.57%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) Java
7 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.86%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.86%) VBA
7 1 (2.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
5 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GAAP
1 1 (2.86%) QA
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) BitLocker
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) SCCM
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (65.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (51.43%) ServiceNow
3 6 (17.14%) CyberArk
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 3 (8.57%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (8.57%) McAfee
5 2 (5.71%) Blue Prism
5 2 (5.71%) Moogsoft
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.86%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle