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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 143 158
Rank change year-on-year -51 +15 +28
Contract jobs citing VBScript 9 10 47
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.34% 0.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.21% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 42
10th Percentile £303 £513 £478
25th Percentile £310 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -5.17% +3.66%
75th Percentile £350 £588 £608
90th Percentile £525 £592 £614
England median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -

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 1,043 828 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 19.24% 28.15% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 546 816
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £503
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.89% -4.19%
75th Percentile £597 £618 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 31 71
10th Percentile £34.01 £42.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.24 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.75 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.12% +7.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.52 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £68.50 £73.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VBScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VBScript job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the South East over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the South East

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 27 March 2026. 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 -27 7 £338 -38.64%
Thames Valley -36 7 £338 -38.64%
Surrey - 2 £700 - 1
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) HP UFT
2 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Functional Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
4 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Robotic Process Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
6 1 (11.11%) BPMN
6 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
6 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Lean Six Sigma
6 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Process Management
6 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (11.11%) User Experience
6 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Blue Prism