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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 477 517
Rank change year-on-year -12 +40 +148
Contract jobs citing VBScript 27 31 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.094% 0.099% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 45
10th Percentile £220 £493 £200
25th Percentile £325 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +10.00% +19.57%
75th Percentile £503 £608 £615
90th Percentile £625 £620 -
UK median daily rate £425 £580 £501
% change year-on-year -26.72% +15.77% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £24.63
25th Percentile - £57.50 £37.05
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year - +28.04% -2.70%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £65.03
90th Percentile - - £67.32
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £46.86
% change year-on-year - +28.04% -2.70%

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 9,353 10,100 12,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.50% 32.41% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 6,637 9,296
10th Percentile £343 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 264 414
10th Percentile £31.19 £30.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £43.80 £46.23 £47.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £60.61 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.02% - +4.17%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 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
South West - 9 £345 - 1
London +20 8 £400 -25.58% 2
Midlands - 7 £600 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £600 -
East of England - 2 £363 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DHCP
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
1 4 (14.81%) VLAN
2 1 (3.70%) FTP
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) MSI
2 8 (29.63%) AdminStudio
2 8 (29.63%) InstallShield
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Automotive
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Aviation
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Military
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Deployment Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) SCCM Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Application Integration Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Applications Packager
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Documentation Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Software Packaging
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (92.59%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Application Packaging
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) Batch Scripting
4 5 (18.52%) Software Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) Scrum
5 3 (11.11%) Time Management
6 2 (7.41%) Change Management
6 2 (7.41%) High Availability
6 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (7.41%) Process Improvement
6 2 (7.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (7.41%) SIEM
6 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.70%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (14.81%) MCSA
5 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.70%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (74.07%) SCCM
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Citrix
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.70%) Globalscape
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Veeam
4 1 (3.70%) Zscaler