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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 856 1058
Rank change year-on-year +36 +202 -270
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 70 121 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.28% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 54 93 178
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 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £38,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year +40.26% -10.47% -9.47%

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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 18 May 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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 70 £54,000 +8.00% 18
UK excluding London -33 66 £54,000 +40.26% 13
Work from Home +73 46 £54,000 +8.00% 9
South East +3 34 £59,000 -4.45% 10
North of England +62 29 £50,000 +57.48% 1
Yorkshire +87 17 £50,000 +66.67% 1
North West +10 11 £52,500 +54.41%
London +86 4 £67,500 +35.00% 9
West Midlands +12 2 £38,500 -24.88% 1
Midlands -11 2 £38,500 -21.03% 2
South West -27 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 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) HFM
1 1 (1.43%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 18 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (20.00%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.57%) AWS
6 4 (5.71%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.71%) TestFlight
7 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.86%) SaaS
8 1 (1.43%) GitHub
8 1 (1.43%) IaaS
8 1 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (44.29%) DHCP
1 31 (44.29%) DNS
2 26 (37.14%) Firewall
3 4 (5.71%) FTP
3 4 (5.71%) HTTP
4 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) OLAP
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.57%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) JUnit
3 1 (1.43%) Maven
3 1 (1.43%) MSI
3 1 (1.43%) Selenium
3 1 (1.43%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.43%) TestNG
General
1 32 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Marketing
5 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.71%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Active Directory Specialist
1 20 (28.57%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (21.43%) Support Specialist
3 14 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (20.00%) Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 7 (10.00%) Systems Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Programmer
6 6 (8.57%) Systems Programmer
6 6 (8.57%) Trainee
6 6 (8.57%) Trainee Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Trainee Programmer
7 4 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.71%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Junior
7 4 (5.71%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) .NET
2 14 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 12 (17.14%) HTML
4 11 (15.71%) ASP.NET
5 7 (10.00%) Classic ASP
5 7 (10.00%) CSS
5 7 (10.00%) HTML5
6 6 (8.57%) jQuery
6 6 (8.57%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (8.57%) Web Services
7 5 (7.14%) EDI
7 5 (7.14%) XML
8 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.71%) EDIFACT
8 4 (5.71%) JSON
8 4 (5.71%) React
8 4 (5.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (2.86%) SOAP
9 2 (2.86%) WSH
10 1 (1.43%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.57%) PKI
2 19 (27.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.14%) Clustering
4 4 (5.71%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (82.86%) Windows
2 40 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 31 (44.29%) Linux
4 27 (38.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (22.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (5.71%) Android
9 4 (5.71%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.43%) CentOS
10 1 (1.43%) Debian
10 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.43%) Scientific Linux
10 1 (1.43%) SUSE
10 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.57%) Analytics
1 20 (28.57%) Log Analytics
1 20 (28.57%) Release Management
2 15 (21.43%) Agile
2 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 15 (21.43%) ITIL
2 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (20.00%) DevOps
3 14 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 14 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (20.00%) RBAC
3 14 (20.00%) Service Management
4 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (14.29%) Project Management
5 7 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (5.71%) Fintech
6 4 (5.71%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (5.71%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 38 (54.29%) VB
3 36 (51.43%) C#
4 29 (41.43%) SQL
5 14 (20.00%) Bicep
6 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
6 13 (18.57%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.57%) VB.NET
7 6 (8.57%) VBA
8 5 (7.14%) Java
9 4 (5.71%) ActionScript
9 4 (5.71%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (5.71%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.71%) Swift
10 2 (2.86%) Python
11 1 (1.43%) Formula Language
11 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (41.43%) Degree
2 23 (32.86%) Security Cleared
3 21 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 14 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (51.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 12 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.71%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (22.86%) SCCM
3 15 (21.43%) SCOM
4 14 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (20.00%) WSUS
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (65.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.57%) Cisco
2 13 (18.57%) VMware
3 4 (5.71%) Citrix
4 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.86%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.43%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) Pega
6 1 (1.43%) SAP
6 1 (1.43%) UiPath