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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 634 805
Rank change year-on-year -65 +171 +33
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 19 9 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.021% 0.073%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.064% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 54
10th Percentile £26,175 £35,300 £42,875
25th Percentile £35,313 £35,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £48,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £58,250 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,750 £41,250 £54,000
% change year-on-year +23.03% -23.61% +40.26%

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 15,514 13,966 32,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 33.31% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,536 10,257 25,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 9 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 23 April 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 -40 19 £70,000 +55.56% 9
Work from Home +23 11 £72,500 +52.63% 7
UK excluding London -62 10 £50,750 +23.03% 4
London -1 9 £70,000 - 7
South East -33 5 £95,000 +153.33% 2
North West -26 2 £26,500 -44.21% 2
South West -47 2 £75,000 -
North of England -63 2 £26,500 -42.70% 2
East of England -37 1 £25,500 -29.17%

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) IIS
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (21.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Power Platform
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Power BI
2 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (26.32%) Tableau
4 4 (21.05%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Balsamiq
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 8 (42.11%) Legal
4 3 (15.79%) Law
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Senior
2 7 (36.84%) Consultant
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (26.32%) Software Consultant
4 4 (21.05%) Applications Specialist
4 4 (21.05%) Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Software Developer
5 3 (15.79%) IT Support
6 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
7 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
1 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
1 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Unix
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (31.58%) ERP
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
2 6 (31.58%) Software Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
3 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (26.32%) Contract Management
3 5 (26.32%) Data Analysis
3 5 (26.32%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (26.32%) KYC
3 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (26.32%) Software Asset Management
3 5 (26.32%) Software Licensing
3 5 (26.32%) Task Automation
3 5 (26.32%) Validation
3 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
4 4 (21.05%) Application Security
4 4 (21.05%) Case Management
4 4 (21.05%) Document Management
4 4 (21.05%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) VBA
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 7 (36.84%) Python
4 6 (31.58%) C#
4 6 (31.58%) VB
5 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 4 (21.05%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.53%) Bash
6 2 (10.53%) Go
6 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) CITP
1 2 (10.53%) CREST Certified
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Oracle
4 5 (26.32%) Adobe
4 5 (26.32%) IBM
4 5 (26.32%) Snow
5 4 (21.05%) SYSPRO
6 3 (15.79%) iManage
7 2 (10.53%) Veeam
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco