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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 478 579
Rank change year-on-year +4 +101 +84
Contract jobs citing VBScript 22 75 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.26% 0.66% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 62 41
10th Percentile £231 £475 £185
25th Percentile £279 £511 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.72% +5.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £516 £608 £615
90th Percentile £598 - £650
UK median daily rate £425 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -26.72% +10.48% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £51.92 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -1.98% -7.87%
UK median hourly rate - £51.92 £52.97
% change year-on-year - -1.98% -18.51%

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 8,609 11,407 16,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.74% 30.72% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,946 8,152 11,744
10th Percentile £355 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 484 408
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £27.00
25th Percentile £36.13 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.96 £75.88 £80.41
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% +17.33%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +48 12 £400 -27.27% 19
North of England - 5 £370 - 3
North West - 4 £465 -
Midlands +12 2 £220 -26.67% 2
South East 0 2 £578 -0.43% 25
West Midlands - 2 £220 - 2
South West - 1 £475 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £275 - 2
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 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) Skype for Business
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) DHCP
1 12 (54.55%) DNS
2 10 (45.45%) VLAN
3 4 (18.18%) LAN
3 4 (18.18%) Skype
3 4 (18.18%) VPN
3 4 (18.18%) WAN
3 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (9.09%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) HTTP
4 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.55%) FTP
5 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MSI
2 1 (4.55%) AdminStudio
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Automotive
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Aviation
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) SCCM Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Packager
4 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Documentation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (4.55%) Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Deployment Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) SCCM Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) SCCM Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OpenID
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (9.09%) PKI
1 2 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) CESG
2 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 14 (63.64%) Windows 10
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
5 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Migration
1 6 (27.27%) Time Management
2 5 (22.73%) Application Packaging
2 5 (22.73%) Disk Encryption
2 5 (22.73%) Service Management
3 4 (18.18%) ITSM
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
5 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (9.09%) High Availability
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
5 2 (9.09%) RBAC
5 2 (9.09%) Server Building
6 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) VB
3 3 (13.64%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) ActionScript
4 1 (4.55%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) JSP 440
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) BitLocker
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) XenApp
4 1 (4.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) SCCM
2 3 (13.64%) WSUS
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Packer
4 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.55%) SCOM
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Citrix
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 4 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) Globalscape