VBScript Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 152 157 184
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +42
Contract jobs citing VBScript 7 48 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.86% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 3.98% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 45 37
10th Percentile - £475 £322
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +53.33%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £620
90th Percentile £596 - £693
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +37.50%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the South East

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the South East 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
Hampshire +14 6 £550 -0.90%
Thames Valley +20 1 £605 - 1
Berkshire +9 1 £605 - 1
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Applications Packager
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared Application Packager
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Application Packaging
2 6 (85.71%) Application Virtualisation
2 6 (85.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft