VBScript Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VBScript 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% - 0.090%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £343 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £506 - -
England median daily rate £375 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -38.02% +10.00% +19.57%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 422 669 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 21.69% 24.39% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 418 640
10th Percentile £313 £375 £363
25th Percentile £400 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £649 £681 £713
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 91 78
10th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £48.15
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.64 £60.91
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £78.10 £78.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +12.71%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the South West

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the South West over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the South West

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

VBScript
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire - 6 £345 - 1
Dorset - 1 £475 -
Wiltshire - 1 £500 - 1
VBScript
England

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MSI
2 5 (62.50%) AdminStudio
2 5 (62.50%) InstallShield
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Military
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Application Packager
4 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) CESG
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Application Packaging
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Batch Scripting
2 4 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Server Building
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (37.50%) MCSA
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware