VBScript Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 183 217
Rank change year-on-year +24 +34 +10
Contract jobs citing VBScript 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.042% 0.051%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £310 - £529
25th Percentile £365 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.83%
75th Percentile £564 - £579
90th Percentile £620 - £580
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +37.50%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the North of England

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the North of England

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the North of England

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the North of England

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +21 6 £551 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Skype for Business
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) Skype
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Publishing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Packager
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disk Encryption
1 4 (57.14%) ITSM
1 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) BitLocker
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) McAfee
3 1 (14.29%) Moogsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) VMware