VBScript Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VBScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 573 503
Rank change year-on-year +62 -70 +177
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 16 28 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.059% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.21% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 41
10th Percentile - £34,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% -11.54% +7.67%
75th Percentile £33,750 £56,525 £74,250
90th Percentile £55,625 £57,868 -
UK median annual salary £32,500 £56,525 £56,525
% change year-on-year -42.50% - +2.77%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,130 13,396 11,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.41% 28.05% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,869 7,365 9,353
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VBScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VBScript job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VBScript
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VBScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VBScript

VBScript
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK excluding London

VBScript
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +38 7 £32,500 - 1
North West +16 7 £26,500 -22.06% 2
North of England +15 7 £26,500 -25.87% 2
South West +37 2 £75,000 +50.00% 1
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DHCP
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 6 (37.50%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) IT Support
2 7 (43.75%) IT Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Support Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Technical Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Technical Support
2 7 (43.75%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) IT Support Technician
3 6 (37.50%) IT Technician
3 6 (37.50%) Support Technician
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) Windows 10
3 8 (50.00%) Mac OS
4 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (50.00%) User Experience
2 7 (43.75%) Critical Thinking
2 7 (43.75%) ERP
3 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) UX Design
5 2 (12.50%) Wireframes
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (43.75%) PL/SQL
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) MCSA
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CITP
2 2 (12.50%) CREST Certified
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Veeam
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco