VBScript Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 130 152
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 +62
Contract jobs citing VBScript 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.038% 0.032%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £220 £288 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £190
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +57.89% -
75th Percentile £625 £313 £195
90th Percentile £648 - -
England median daily rate £425 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -26.72% +5.45% +19.57%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 636 596 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.84% 22.42% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 425 575
10th Percentile £268 £313 £308
25th Percentile £358 £373 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.21% -4.04%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £575
90th Percentile £588 £637 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 16
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.50 £18.75
25th Percentile £28.18 £28.31 £23.81
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -20.98% +46.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £58.00
90th Percentile - £58.75 £83.75
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year -11.54% +3.59% +14.09%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the Midlands

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the Midlands

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the Midlands

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the Midlands

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Midlands - 5 £600 - 3
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Automotive
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Application Integration Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Application Packaging
1 3 (60.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) ArcSight