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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 362 374
Rank change year-on-year -77 +12 +83
Contract jobs citing VBScript 4 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% 0.074% 0.099%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.063% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £544 £274 £450
25th Percentile £566 £300 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +75.57% -41.67% +29.73%
75th Percentile £676 £425 £669
90th Percentile £705 £455 £775
England median daily rate £360 £450 £580
% change year-on-year -20.09% -22.41% +5.45%

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 6,340 5,234 6,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.26% 38.55% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,235 3,670 4,815
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.60% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 54 42
10th Percentile £34.35 £26.64 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VBScript job vacancy trend 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 8 August 2026.

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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MS Access
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Front Office
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) HFM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Apache FOP
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) ETRM
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (50.00%) Logistics
1 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GAAP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Hyperion
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle