VBScript Contract Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VBScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 155 174
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +62
Contract jobs citing VBScript 1 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% 0.55% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 2.20% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 31
10th Percentile - £505 -
25th Percentile £603 £565 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +34.97%
75th Percentile £608 £608 £615
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £345 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -42.98% +10.00% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year - +13.27% +39.42%

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 887 1,138 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.76% 24.92% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 768 947
10th Percentile £286 £325 £323
25th Percentile £398 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £584 £611 £615
90th Percentile £625 £657 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 76
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £51.56 £49.94 £49.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +26.06% -7.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile - £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.18%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VBScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VBScript

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VBScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VBScript

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 16 September 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
Berkshire +2 1 £605 -
Thames Valley -3 1 £605 -
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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Support
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft