VBScript Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 315 441 556
Rank change year-on-year +126 +115 -106
Contract jobs citing VBScript 32 27 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 47
10th Percentile £395 £325 £357
25th Percentile £475 £369 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £608 £543 £500
90th Percentile - £566 £613
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £400
% change year-on-year - +37.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile £62.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.92 £52.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.98% -18.51% -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

VBScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VBScript trend for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VBScript.

VBScript daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VBScript over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

VBScript daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VBScript.

VBScript hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (53.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (53.13%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (53.13%) Azure Storage
2 17 (53.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) IaaS
3 1 (3.13%) PaaS
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) DHCP
1 21 (65.63%) DNS
1 21 (65.63%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.25%) QlikView
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) Subversion
2 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (46.88%) Support Specialist
3 14 (43.75%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (43.75%) Azure Specialist
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.25%) Qlik Developer
6 2 (6.25%) QlikView Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) ARM Templates
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) PKI
1 17 (53.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 17 (53.13%) Linux
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2016
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (15.63%) Windows 10
4 4 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Agile
1 19 (59.38%) ITIL
2 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 18 (56.25%) DevOps
3 17 (53.13%) Analytics
3 17 (53.13%) Identity Management
3 17 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (53.13%) Log Analytics
3 17 (53.13%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 17 (53.13%) Privileged Identity Management
3 17 (53.13%) RBAC
3 17 (53.13%) Release Management
3 17 (53.13%) Service Management
4 4 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) PowerShell
2 21 (65.63%) VB
3 19 (59.38%) C#
4 17 (53.13%) Bicep
5 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.38%) SQL
7 2 (6.25%) Java
8 1 (3.13%) C
8 1 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) Python
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Degree
1 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 17 (53.13%) DV Cleared
2 17 (53.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) ISEB
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory
2 17 (53.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (53.13%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (12.50%) XenApp
4 1 (3.13%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (68.75%) SCCM
2 19 (59.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (53.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
3 17 (53.13%) SCOM
3 17 (53.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Citrix
2 4 (12.50%) Ivanti
2 4 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) VMware