VBScript Jobs

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 836 833 1081
Rank change year-on-year -3 +248 -269
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 69 113 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54 85 176
10th Percentile £36,375 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,200 £74,250 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £38,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +40.26% -17.20% -2.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 12 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 2 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 69 £54,000 +6.40% 19
UK excluding London -38 65 £54,000 +40.26% 13
Work from Home +58 49 £54,000 +8.00% 6
South East -15 33 £59,000 -19.73% 5
North of England +47 29 £50,000 +53.85% 3
Yorkshire +67 17 £50,000 +66.67% 3
North West -5 11 £52,500 +57.89%
London +85 4 £67,500 +35.00% 8
West Midlands -9 2 £38,500 -18.95% 3
Midlands -12 2 £38,500 -18.95% 3
South West -28 1 - -
North East - 1 £37,500 -

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) HFM
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.07%) Azure
2 23 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 23 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 21 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (24.64%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.84%) AWS
6 4 (5.80%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.90%) SaaS
7 2 (2.90%) TestFlight
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) IaaS
8 1 (1.45%) PaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (49.28%) DHCP
1 34 (49.28%) DNS
2 29 (42.03%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) FTP
3 4 (5.80%) HTTP
4 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.54%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) OLAP
5 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.70%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) JUnit
3 1 (1.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.45%) MSI
3 1 (1.45%) Selenium
3 1 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 35 (50.72%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Marketing
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Retail
7 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Back Office
8 1 (1.45%) Front Office
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
1 23 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 18 (26.09%) Support Specialist
3 17 (24.64%) Active Directory Support
4 12 (17.39%) Developer
5 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 7 (10.14%) Systems Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Programmer
7 6 (8.70%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (8.70%) Trainee
7 6 (8.70%) Trainee Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Trainee Programmer
8 4 (5.80%) Junior
8 4 (5.80%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Support Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Engineering Specialist
10 2 (2.90%) JavaScript Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.09%) .NET
2 17 (24.64%) ARM Templates
3 10 (14.49%) HTML
4 9 (13.04%) ASP.NET
5 7 (10.14%) Classic ASP
5 7 (10.14%) HTML5
6 6 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (7.25%) CSS
7 5 (7.25%) EDI
7 5 (7.25%) XML
8 4 (5.80%) EDIFACT
8 4 (5.80%) jQuery
8 4 (5.80%) JSON
8 4 (5.80%) Web Services
9 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.90%) React
9 2 (2.90%) SOAP
9 2 (2.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (2.90%) WSH
10 1 (1.45%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.33%) PKI
2 20 (28.99%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.25%) Clustering
4 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.90%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.45%) Derivative
7 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 57 (82.61%) Windows
2 43 (62.32%) Windows Server
3 32 (46.38%) Linux
4 30 (43.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (27.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.90%) Android
9 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.45%) CentOS
10 1 (1.45%) Debian
10 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.45%) Scientific Linux
10 1 (1.45%) SUSE
10 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Analytics
1 23 (33.33%) Log Analytics
1 23 (33.33%) Release Management
2 18 (26.09%) Agile
2 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 18 (26.09%) ITIL
3 17 (24.64%) DevOps
3 17 (24.64%) Identity Management
3 17 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (24.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 17 (24.64%) Privileged Identity Management
3 17 (24.64%) RBAC
3 17 (24.64%) Service Management
4 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (14.49%) Project Management
6 5 (7.25%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (5.80%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (4.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 46 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 41 (59.42%) VB
3 37 (53.62%) C#
4 27 (39.13%) SQL
5 17 (24.64%) Bicep
6 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
6 11 (15.94%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.70%) VB.NET
7 6 (8.70%) VBA
8 4 (5.80%) ActionScript
8 4 (5.80%) ActionScript 2.0
9 3 (4.35%) Java
10 2 (2.90%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.90%) Python
10 2 (2.90%) Swift
11 1 (1.45%) Formula Language
11 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (46.38%) Degree
2 24 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 23 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 17 (24.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (56.52%) Active Directory
2 17 (24.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (24.64%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 12 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 19 (27.54%) SCCM
3 18 (26.09%) SCOM
4 17 (24.64%) Kubernetes
4 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (24.64%) WSUS
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (68.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Cisco
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Citrix
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.45%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) Pega
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) UiPath