VBScript Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring VBScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 116 108
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +53
Contract jobs citing VBScript 2 5 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.095% 0.26% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 1.00% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 31
10th Percentile - £481 £513
25th Percentile £331 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £578 £610
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.33% +12.34%
75th Percentile £344 £608 £615
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £338 £563 £608
% change year-on-year -40.00% -7.41% +11.88%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 460 498 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.79% 26.22% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 317 386
10th Percentile £337 £378 £350
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £563 £638 £615
90th Percentile £617 £672 £681
South East median daily rate £486 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.75% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 16
10th Percentile £39.25 £45.08 £32.32
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.03 £47.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +13.49% -23.08%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £58.96
90th Percentile £84.40 £68.39 £68.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.41
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.16% -4.32%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

VBScript job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VBScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VBScript

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VBScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VBScript

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 December 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 -19 2 £338 -41.56% 2
VBScript
South East

VBScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA