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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 482 665
Rank change year-on-year -42 +183 +1
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 12 10 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.039% 0.096%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.14% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 52
10th Percentile £26,100 £35,300 £42,050
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -41.11% -15.49% +33.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £48,750 £59,000
90th Percentile - - £64,875
UK median annual salary £26,500 £46,250 £54,000
% change year-on-year -42.70% -14.35% +4.85%

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 8,305 7,788 20,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.90% 30.41% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 5,764 15,979
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,290 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £55,895 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +3.51% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,963 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 27 March 2026.

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 27 March 2026. 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
North West -16 5 £26,500 -44.21% 2
North of England -46 5 £26,500 -44.21% 3
South West -36 3 £75,000 -
South East -38 3 - - 2
East of England -21 1 £25,500 -29.17%
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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (41.67%) IT Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Support
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
3 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ERP
2 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Business Process Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) UX Design
5 3 (25.00%) Wireframes
6 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) Go
5 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CITP
1 3 (25.00%) CREST Certified
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Veeam
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) SYSPRO
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco