VBScript Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VBScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 645 763
Rank change year-on-year -20 +118 +58
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 16 14 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.032% 0.081%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.092% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 60
10th Percentile - £36,000 £41,050
25th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.21% -12.04% +4.35%
75th Percentile £44,688 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £26,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -44.21% -9.52% +17.54%

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 13,102 15,260 29,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.15% 34.63% 35.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,245 10,344 24,184
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,094
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -1.82%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VBScript job vacancy trend in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBScript

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 8 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 9 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
England -2 16 £26,500 -44.21% 10
UK excluding London -8 12 £26,500 -44.21% 10
Work from Home +30 7 £75,000 +57.89% 6
North West -5 7 £26,500 -44.21% 2
North of England -21 7 £26,500 -44.21% 3
London +19 4 - - 2
South West -20 3 £75,000 - 2
East of England - 2 £29,000 -

VBScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Power BI
1 4 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Balsamiq
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (18.75%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) IT Support
2 7 (43.75%) Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) IT Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 7 (43.75%) Senior Consultant
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 4 (25.00%) Software Consultant
4 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (6.25%) IT Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Support Technician
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (43.75%) Critical Thinking
2 7 (43.75%) ERP
3 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (25.00%) KYC
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Software Asset Management
4 4 (25.00%) Software Licensing
4 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (25.00%) Validation
4 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PL/SQL
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) VB
3 4 (25.00%) VBA
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CITP
1 3 (18.75%) CREST Certified
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) MCSA
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (68.75%) VMware
3 7 (43.75%) Veeam
4 4 (25.00%) Adobe
4 4 (25.00%) IBM
4 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (25.00%) Snow
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco