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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 684 633
Rank change year-on-year +55 -51 +140
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 18 24 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.044% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 0.13% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 54
10th Percentile - £46,250 £43,225
25th Percentile £26,250 £46,563 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £66,875 £57,263
Median % change year-on-year -51.40% +16.79% +9.07%
75th Percentile £33,750 £89,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £74,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £47,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -31.58% -15.97% +16.55%

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 11,569 18,339 20,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.35% 33.79% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,482 10,724 16,981
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +63 18 £32,500 -53.15% 38
UK excluding London +51 17 £32,500 -31.58% 41
North of England +21 7 £26,500 -44.21% 9
East of England - 7 £32,500 - 6
North West - 7 £26,500 - 4
Work from Home +60 3 £75,000 +30.43%
South West +11 3 £75,000 +50.00% 6
London +51 1 £90,000 -5.26% 1

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 14 (77.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DHCP
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
1 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 6 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Balsamiq
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) IT Support
2 7 (38.89%) IT Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Technical Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Technical Support
2 7 (38.89%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
3 6 (33.33%) IT Technician
3 6 (33.33%) Support Technician
4 4 (22.22%) Senior
5 3 (16.67%) Consultant
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Windows 10
3 8 (44.44%) Mac OS
4 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (50.00%) User Experience
3 8 (44.44%) Customer Service
4 7 (38.89%) Critical Thinking
4 7 (38.89%) ERP
5 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 3 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) UX Design
7 3 (16.67%) Wireframes
8 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
8 1 (5.56%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (38.89%) PL/SQL
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) MCSA
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CITP
2 3 (16.67%) CREST Certified
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Veeam
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco