VBScript Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 387 440
Rank change year-on-year +49 +53 -41
Contract jobs citing VBScript 55 64 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 0.92% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 53 50
10th Percentile £475 £325 £185
25th Percentile £522 £446 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £385
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +42.86% +2.67%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £484
90th Percentile - £674 £591
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £419
% change year-on-year - +31.34% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.20
25th Percentile - - £34.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.50
75th Percentile - - £57.25
90th Percentile - - £63.40
UK median hourly rate £32.92 £52.97 £65.50
% change year-on-year -37.85% -19.13% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

VBScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,829 6,925 8,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 28.99% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 4,932 6,227
10th Percentile £317 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 338 335
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.50 £17.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.98 £27.49
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.63 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +21.86% +19.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.50 £65.47
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
South East +31 49 £580 +0.87% 3
Scotland +37 2 £425 -4.71%
North of England +31 2 - - 1
North West +27 2 - -
Midlands +28 1 £300 -18.92% 2
East Midlands +19 1 £300 -45.45% 1
Wales - 1 - -
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 16 (29.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (30.91%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (30.91%) Azure Storage
2 17 (30.91%) Entra ID
3 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.64%) IaaS
4 2 (3.64%) PaaS
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (41.82%) DHCP
1 23 (41.82%) DNS
2 22 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) OLAP
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Selenium
2 6 (10.91%) Robot Framework
3 3 (5.45%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
3 3 (5.45%) Subversion
4 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.64%) TestComplete
4 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.82%) Axure RP
General
1 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) French Language
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (27.27%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (25.45%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (25.45%) Support Specialist
4 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Senior
7 5 (9.09%) Solutions Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Applications Packager
9 3 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared Application Packager
10 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 2 (3.64%) Support Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (36.36%) Client/Server
2 17 (30.91%) PKI
2 17 (30.91%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (9.09%) Device Driver
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 49 (89.09%) Windows
2 36 (65.45%) Linux
3 35 (63.64%) Windows Server
4 18 (32.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (32.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (29.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (20.00%) Windows 10
7 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (7.27%) Windows 7
8 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) Agile
2 33 (60.00%) DevOps
3 25 (45.45%) Release Management
4 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 19 (34.55%) ITIL
6 18 (32.73%) Application Packaging
6 18 (32.73%) Application Virtualisation
7 17 (30.91%) Analytics
7 17 (30.91%) Identity Management
7 17 (30.91%) Log Analytics
7 17 (30.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 17 (30.91%) Privileged Identity Management
7 17 (30.91%) RBAC
7 17 (30.91%) Service Management
8 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 5 (9.09%) SDLC
12 5 (9.09%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 49 (89.09%) PowerShell
2 24 (43.64%) VB
3 22 (40.00%) C#
4 20 (36.36%) Python
5 16 (29.09%) Bicep
6 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.27%) C++
8 3 (5.45%) SQL
9 2 (3.64%) Delphi
9 2 (3.64%) Java
9 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (63.64%) DV Cleared
1 35 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 17 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 16 (29.09%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) ISEB
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 24 (43.64%) Active Directory
2 20 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (30.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (30.91%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (10.91%) XenApp
5 2 (3.64%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.82%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (47.27%) SCCM
2 17 (30.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (30.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (30.91%) SCOM
2 17 (30.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) VMware
2 16 (29.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Citrix
3 6 (10.91%) Ivanti
3 6 (10.91%) Symantec
4 3 (5.45%) ArcSight
5 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds