VBScript Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 317 345 401
Rank change year-on-year +28 +56 +37
Contract jobs citing VBScript 19 54 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% 1.11% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 47 52
10th Percentile £400 £475 £325
25th Percentile £458 £519 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +42.86%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £604 - £674
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +34.15%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK excluding London

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the UK excluding London

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the UK excluding London

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the UK excluding London

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +24 7 £465 - 3
South East +5 7 £550 -5.17% 4
North West +21 6 £551 - 2
Scotland +14 3 £400 -5.88%
South West - 2 £475 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (21.05%) Skype for Business
3 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.53%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) IaaS
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.79%) PaaS
3 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) DHCP
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
3 4 (21.05%) Skype
3 4 (21.05%) VLAN
3 4 (21.05%) VPN
3 4 (21.05%) WAN
3 4 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Postman
2 3 (15.79%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
2 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
2 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.26%) MSI
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Publishing
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Applications Packager
2 6 (31.58%) DV Cleared Application Packager
3 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Wintel Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Wintel Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SCCM Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Client/Server
2 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) CESG
4 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Linux
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
4 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
5 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (10.53%) Android
7 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
7 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
8 1 (5.26%) VMS
8 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (36.84%) Application Packaging
5 6 (31.58%) Application Virtualisation
6 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (26.32%) Service Management
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Disk Encryption
7 4 (21.05%) ITSM
8 3 (15.79%) ATDD
8 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (15.79%) Feature Driven Development
8 3 (15.79%) SOA
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (15.79%) TDD
8 3 (15.79%) Validation
8 3 (15.79%) V-Model
8 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) PowerShell
2 7 (36.84%) VB
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) C#
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) C++
5 3 (15.79%) Java
5 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.79%) VBA
6 1 (5.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) ISEB
4 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
4 3 (15.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (10.53%) MCP
5 2 (10.53%) MCSA
5 2 (10.53%) MCSE
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) NCSC
3 1 (5.26%) JSP 440
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (31.58%) BitLocker
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) SCCM
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.26%) SCOM
3 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
1 9 (47.37%) VMware
2 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) McAfee
3 2 (10.53%) Symantec
4 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Moogsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk