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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 324 369
Rank change year-on-year -39 +45 +80
Contract jobs citing VBScript 14 52 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.33% 1.19% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 41 39
10th Percentile £220 £475 £185
25th Percentile £304 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +5.45% +20.88%
75th Percentile £621 £608 £589
90th Percentile £629 - £615
UK median daily rate £400 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -31.03% +10.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.21
% change year-on-year - -0.35% +4.73%

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 4,198 4,378 6,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.44% 23.84% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 2,948 4,121
10th Percentile £310 £325 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £594
90th Percentile £619 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 327 322
10th Percentile £29.29 £30.52 £30.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £48.08
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £78.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

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 3 August 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 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -5 5 £600 +100.00% 3
West Midlands - 5 £600 - 3
North of England - 5 £370 - 1
North West - 4 £465 - 1
Scotland -9 2 £400 -5.88%
South East -23 1 £605 +4.31% 1
South West - 1 £475 - 2
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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (28.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DHCP
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) Skype
2 4 (28.57%) VLAN
2 4 (28.57%) VPN
2 4 (28.57%) WAN
2 4 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Postman
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) Subversion
1 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
1 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
2 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Application Integration Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Integration Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Packager
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Software Packaging
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) CESG
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows 10
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
4 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (7.14%) VMS
6 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Service Management
3 4 (28.57%) Application Packaging
3 4 (28.57%) Disk Encryption
3 4 (28.57%) ITSM
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Feature Driven Development
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (14.29%) SOA
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) VB
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) VBA
6 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) ISEB
5 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
5 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) BitLocker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
2 1 (7.14%) SCOM
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) ArcSight