VBScript Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VBScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 367 437
Rank change year-on-year +4 +70 +123
Contract jobs citing VBScript 10 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.061% 0.073%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £274 £519 £270
25th Percentile £300 £525 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £425 £750 £564
90th Percentile £455 £775 £604
England median daily rate £345 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -42.98% +10.00% +20.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £34.79
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
75th Percentile - - £65.05
90th Percentile - - £68.06
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year - +13.27% +39.42%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,204 6,568 8,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.64% 40.28% 37.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,576 4,703 6,214
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £427 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 43 72
10th Percentile £26.71 £25.40 £25.80
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.04 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +13.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £72.13
90th Percentile £87.00 £78.25 £86.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in London

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VBScript

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in London

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VBScript

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Central London +4 3 £325 -38.10%
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
1 6 (60.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) FTP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MSI
2 1 (10.00%) AdminStudio
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aviation
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Documentation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
1 6 (60.00%) Time Management
2 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Globalscape
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft