VBScript Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 113 127 157
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +3
Contract jobs citing VBScript 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.090% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.30% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile - £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £446
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.71% -20.71%
75th Percentile - £438 £504
90th Percentile - - £539
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +34.15%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in Scotland

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VBScript in Scotland

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in Scotland

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 3 £400 -5.88%
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ATDD
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) V-Model
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA