VBScript Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 295 315 453
Rank change year-on-year +20 +138 +108
Contract jobs citing VBScript 9 30 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.20% 0.093%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.24% 0.58% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £343 £393 -
25th Percentile £400 £469 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +21.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £566 £608 £553
90th Percentile £627 - £588
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +34.15%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

VBScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VBScript trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VBScript.

VBScript daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VBScript over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

VBScript daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VBScript.

VBScript hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Subversion
2 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
2 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OpenID
3 1 (11.11%) SAML
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (11.11%) AIX
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Solaris
5 1 (11.11%) Unix
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) ATDD
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (22.22%) Kanban
3 2 (22.22%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) V-Model
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 2 (22.22%) VB
4 2 (22.22%) VBA
5 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISEB
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCDE
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) WSUS
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Packer
2 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Moogsoft
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk