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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 509 676
Rank change year-on-year -68 +167 -5
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 6 7 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.025% 0.097%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.062% 0.086% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 51
10th Percentile £36,700 £35,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £35,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £37,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.00% -30.56% +40.26%
75th Percentile £81,000 £47,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £90,900 £48,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £37,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +86.67% -30.56% +8.00%

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 9,690 8,150 21,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.78% 28.70% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,560 5,698 16,361
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,622 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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
South East -31 5 £95,000 +162.07% 2
North West -21 1 £31,000 -34.74% 6
North of England -54 1 £31,000 -32.97% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (66.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) ERP
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) VBA
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) VB
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) SYSPRO
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle