VBScript Jobs

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VBScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VBScript over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 779 762 1072
Rank change year-on-year -17 +310 -223
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 63 125 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.39% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40 83 177
10th Percentile £41,650 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,000 £74,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,850 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.68% - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -18 60 £54,000 +2.86% 5
UK excluding London -56 56 £54,000 +13.68% 6
Work from Home +45 40 £54,000 -20.00% 1
South East -23 27 £58,263 -20.73% 4
North of England +25 22 £50,000 +60.00%
North West +4 13 £52,500 +54.41%
Yorkshire +61 8 £50,000 +66.67%
London +60 7 £95,000 +80.95%
Scotland -41 3 - -
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands -9 1 £45,000 -2.17% 1
Midlands -28 1 £45,000 -2.17% 1
North East - 1 £37,500 -
South West - 1 - -

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 16 (25.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) HFM
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (44.44%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (31.75%) Entra ID
3 19 (30.16%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (25.40%) Azure Storage
5 7 (11.11%) AWS
6 2 (3.17%) Intacct
6 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) GitHub
7 1 (1.59%) IaaS
7 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.59%) PaaS
7 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (49.21%) DHCP
1 31 (49.21%) DNS
2 24 (38.10%) Firewall
3 6 (9.52%) VPN
4 4 (6.35%) FTP
4 4 (6.35%) HTTP
5 2 (3.17%) Internet
6 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.17%) Informix
4 2 (3.17%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.59%) OLAP
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Dreamweaver
1 6 (9.52%) Visual Studio
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.76%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) JUnit
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Selenium
4 1 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.59%) TestNG
General
1 32 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Marketing
5 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.35%) Retail
6 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Active Directory Specialist
1 20 (31.75%) Azure Specialist
2 16 (25.40%) Active Directory Support
2 16 (25.40%) Support Specialist
3 9 (14.29%) Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Systems Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (9.52%) Programmer
5 6 (9.52%) Systems Programmer
5 6 (9.52%) Trainee
5 6 (9.52%) Trainee Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Trainee Programmer
6 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Junior
7 3 (4.76%) Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Automation Specialist
7 3 (4.76%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) SCCM Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) ARM Templates
2 15 (23.81%) .NET
3 7 (11.11%) HTML
4 6 (9.52%) ASP.NET
4 6 (9.52%) Classic ASP
4 6 (9.52%) HTML5
4 6 (9.52%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (7.94%) EDI
6 4 (6.35%) EDIFACT
6 4 (6.35%) JSON
6 4 (6.35%) XML
7 2 (3.17%) CSS
7 2 (3.17%) WSH
8 1 (1.59%) ADO
8 1 (1.59%) jQuery
8 1 (1.59%) RESTful
8 1 (1.59%) SOAP
8 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.75%) PKI
2 18 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.76%) Clustering
5 2 (3.17%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (77.78%) Windows
2 33 (52.38%) Windows Server
3 25 (39.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 24 (38.10%) Linux
5 18 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (12.70%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (9.52%) Windows 10
9 4 (6.35%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (3.17%) Unix
11 1 (1.59%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Agile
1 20 (31.75%) Analytics
1 20 (31.75%) CI/CD
1 20 (31.75%) ITIL
1 20 (31.75%) Log Analytics
1 20 (31.75%) Release Management
2 16 (25.40%) DevOps
2 16 (25.40%) Identity Management
2 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (25.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 16 (25.40%) Privileged Identity Management
2 16 (25.40%) RBAC
2 16 (25.40%) Service Management
3 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (14.29%) Project Management
6 4 (6.35%) Application Packaging
6 4 (6.35%) Asset Management
6 4 (6.35%) Problem Management
6 4 (6.35%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (66.67%) VB
2 36 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 31 (49.21%) C#
4 23 (36.51%) SQL
5 16 (25.40%) Bicep
6 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.52%) T-SQL
8 5 (7.94%) VB.NET
9 4 (6.35%) ActionScript
9 4 (6.35%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (6.35%) Java
10 3 (4.76%) VBA
11 2 (3.17%) Python
12 1 (1.59%) Formula Language
12 1 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Degree
2 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 20 (31.75%) DV Cleared
4 16 (25.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (50.79%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.40%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (25.40%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (12.70%) Hyper-V
3 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.59%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (33.33%) SCCM
2 20 (31.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (31.75%) WSUS
3 17 (26.98%) SCOM
4 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
4 16 (25.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) VMware
3 7 (11.11%) Cisco
4 5 (7.94%) Citrix
5 4 (6.35%) Altiris
6 2 (3.17%) Google
6 2 (3.17%) Sage
6 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.59%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle
7 1 (1.59%) Pega
7 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.59%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) UiPath