VBScript Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 576 654
Rank change year-on-year +115 +78 -94
Contract jobs citing VBScript 76 75 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 0.45% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 61 91
10th Percentile £385 £235 £185
25th Percentile £481 £400 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £538
90th Percentile - £669 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £400
% change year-on-year - +37.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £42.49 - £34.70
25th Percentile £44.99 - £48.49
Median hourly rate £51.92 £52.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -18.51% -
75th Percentile £58.59 - £67.50
90th Percentile £60.94 - £74.25
UK median hourly rate £51.92 £52.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.98% -18.51% -

All Programming Languages
England

VBScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in England.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in England.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in England

VBScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VBScript in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VBScript in England

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +24 51 £580 +2.25% 8
London +105 19 £475 +50.79% 8
North of England +25 2 - -
North West +19 2 - -
Midlands +26 1 £300 -18.92% 2
East Midlands +13 1 £300 -45.45% 1
VBScript
UK

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (22.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) IIS
2 3 (3.95%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.63%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 18 (23.68%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (22.37%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (22.37%) Azure Storage
3 17 (22.37%) Entra ID
4 15 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.32%) AWS
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (36.84%) Firewall
2 27 (35.53%) DHCP
2 27 (35.53%) DNS
3 4 (5.26%) IPv4
4 1 (1.32%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) OLAP
2 1 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Robot Framework
1 6 (7.89%) Selenium
2 2 (2.63%) TestComplete
3 1 (1.32%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) JIRA
3 1 (1.32%) Subversion
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) French Language
5 2 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Active Directory Support
1 17 (22.37%) Support Specialist
2 14 (18.42%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (18.42%) Azure Specialist
3 12 (15.79%) Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Senior
7 6 (7.89%) Applications Packager
8 5 (6.58%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Market Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Market Data Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Solutions Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Applications Support
10 3 (3.95%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.63%) .NET
2 2 (2.63%) ADO
2 2 (2.63%) Middleware
2 2 (2.63%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (2.63%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 17 (22.37%) PKI
2 17 (22.37%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.58%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.32%) Clustering
5 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (73.68%) Windows
2 37 (48.68%) Linux
3 35 (46.05%) Windows Server
4 19 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (23.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (22.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (15.79%) Windows 10
8 6 (7.89%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (5.26%) Windows 7
9 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) Agile
2 32 (42.11%) DevOps
3 26 (34.21%) Release Management
4 24 (31.58%) Application Packaging
5 22 (28.95%) Application Virtualisation
6 21 (27.63%) ITIL
7 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 19 (25.00%) Service Management
8 17 (22.37%) Analytics
8 17 (22.37%) Identity Management
8 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (22.37%) Log Analytics
8 17 (22.37%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 17 (22.37%) Privileged Identity Management
8 17 (22.37%) RBAC
9 15 (19.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.21%) SDLC
12 6 (7.89%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 64 (84.21%) PowerShell
2 27 (35.53%) VB
3 22 (28.95%) Python
4 21 (27.63%) C#
5 17 (22.37%) Bicep
6 11 (14.47%) SQL
7 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.95%) C++
9 2 (2.63%) C
9 2 (2.63%) Delphi
9 2 (2.63%) Java
10 1 (1.32%) Ada
Qualifications
1 36 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 35 (46.05%) DV Cleared
3 24 (31.58%) Degree
4 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
5 17 (22.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) GDPR
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (30.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (22.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (22.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.89%) XenApp
5 2 (2.63%) BitLocker
5 2 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.32%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (38.16%) SCCM
2 19 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (22.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (22.37%) Kubernetes
3 17 (22.37%) SCOM
3 17 (22.37%) WSUS
4 2 (2.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (26.32%) VMware
3 8 (10.53%) Citrix
4 6 (7.89%) Ivanti
4 6 (7.89%) Symantec
5 3 (3.95%) ArcSight
5 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.63%) IBM
6 2 (2.63%) Micro Focus
6 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.63%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.63%) SAP
6 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds