VBScript Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 119 159
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 -14
Contract jobs citing VBScript 29 26 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.10% 0.91% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.51% 3.95% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 3
10th Percentile £509 £185 -
25th Percentile £525 £488 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £205
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +168.29% -54.44%
75th Percentile £608 £596 £300
90th Percentile - £619 £355
South East median daily rate £580 £550 £385
% change year-on-year +5.45% +42.86% -21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 - £65.00

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 526 658 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.95% 22.99% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 478 570
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £606 £587
90th Percentile £650 £682 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the Thames Valley

VBScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VBScript in the Thames Valley

VBScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VBScript in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VBScript in the Thames Valley

VBScript
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -3 28 £605 +10.00% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 -
VBScript
South East

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 20 (68.97%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 28 (96.55%) Azure
2 20 (68.97%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (68.97%) Azure Storage
2 20 (68.97%) Entra ID
2 20 (68.97%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (68.97%) DHCP
1 20 (68.97%) DNS
1 20 (68.97%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) OLAP
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Robot Framework
1 3 (10.34%) Selenium
General
1 20 (68.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (48.28%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (48.28%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (48.28%) Support Specialist
3 6 (20.69%) Active Directory Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Solutions Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Packager
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.45%) SSRS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (68.97%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 20 (68.97%) PKI
1 20 (68.97%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (27.59%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 28 (96.55%) Linux
1 28 (96.55%) Windows
1 28 (96.55%) Windows Server
2 20 (68.97%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (68.97%) Windows Server 2019
3 8 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Agile
1 28 (96.55%) DevOps
2 24 (82.76%) Release Management
3 20 (68.97%) Analytics
3 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 20 (68.97%) Identity Management
3 20 (68.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (68.97%) ITIL
3 20 (68.97%) Log Analytics
3 20 (68.97%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 20 (68.97%) Privileged Identity Management
3 20 (68.97%) RBAC
3 20 (68.97%) Service Management
4 8 (27.59%) Application Packaging
4 8 (27.59%) Application Virtualisation
4 8 (27.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Scrum
6 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) PowerShell
2 20 (68.97%) Bicep
2 20 (68.97%) C#
2 20 (68.97%) VB
3 8 (27.59%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (96.55%) DV Cleared
1 28 (96.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (68.97%) Degree
2 20 (68.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 20 (68.97%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) Active Directory
1 20 (68.97%) Virtual Desktop
1 20 (68.97%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 20 (68.97%) SCCM
1 20 (68.97%) SCOM
1 20 (68.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) ArcSight