VBScript Contracts

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 520 624
Rank change year-on-year +31 +104 +80
Contract jobs citing VBScript 30 80 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.62% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 69 66
10th Percentile £375 £385 £246
25th Percentile £441 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.15%
75th Percentile £581 £608 £617
90th Percentile £617 £609 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £32.92 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -37.85% -19.13%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +14 25 £550 - 27
UK excluding London +20 20 £550 -0.90% 17
Work from Home +29 9 £500 -17.36% 7
London +23 8 £475 - 9
South East +3 8 £550 -5.17% 2
North of England +33 7 £465 - 4
North West +15 6 £551 - 3
Scotland +10 3 £400 -5.88%
South West - 2 £475 - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) Skype for Business
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 2 (6.67%) IIS
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) IaaS
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) PaaS
4 3 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 3 (10.00%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) DNS
2 10 (33.33%) DHCP
3 7 (23.33%) VLAN
4 4 (13.33%) LAN
4 4 (13.33%) Skype
4 4 (13.33%) VPN
4 4 (13.33%) WAN
4 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.67%) Firewall
7 1 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
2 5 (16.67%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) Postman
3 3 (10.00%) Selenium
3 3 (10.00%) Subversion
3 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (10.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (6.67%) MSI
5 1 (3.33%) AdminStudio
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Publishing
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Applications Packager
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared Application Packager
3 3 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Wintel Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) IAM Developer
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) LDAP
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.33%) jQuery
3 1 (3.33%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OpenID
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) Web Services
3 1 (3.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) CESG
4 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (76.67%) Windows
2 15 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 11 (36.67%) Linux
5 8 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
9 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (6.67%) Android
10 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
10 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
11 1 (3.33%) AIX
11 1 (3.33%) Solaris
11 1 (3.33%) Unix
11 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (33.33%) Application Packaging
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
4 9 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 7 (23.33%) Application Virtualisation
6 5 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
6 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (16.67%) Service Management
7 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.33%) ITSM
8 3 (10.00%) Analytics
8 3 (10.00%) ATDD
8 3 (10.00%) BDD
8 3 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (10.00%) Feature Driven Development
8 3 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.00%) Software Delivery
8 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (30.00%) Python
3 8 (26.67%) VB
4 6 (20.00%) SQL
5 5 (16.67%) Java
6 4 (13.33%) C#
7 3 (10.00%) C++
7 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (10.00%) VBA
8 1 (3.33%) Bicep
8 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (10.00%) ISEB
5 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
5 3 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.67%) MCP
6 2 (6.67%) MCSA
6 2 (6.67%) MCSE
7 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.33%) CCDE
7 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
7 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) NCSC
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) JSP 440
3 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (23.33%) BitLocker
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.67%) vSphere
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.33%) XenApp
5 1 (3.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (13.33%) WSUS
3 3 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 2 (6.67%) Packer
4 2 (6.67%) Terraform
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) VMware
2 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (13.33%) Citrix
5 3 (10.00%) CyberArk
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco
6 2 (6.67%) IBM
6 2 (6.67%) McAfee
6 2 (6.67%) Symantec
7 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.33%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.33%) HP
7 1 (3.33%) Moogsoft
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.33%) SAP
7 1 (3.33%) Splunk