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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 852 1039
Rank change year-on-year +19 +187 -242
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 69 120 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.27% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 53 91 182
10th Percentile £42,750 £29,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £35,750
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 £65,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +40.26% -9.41% -10.53%

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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 11 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 9 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 +66 69 £54,000 +8.00% 14
UK excluding London -1 66 £54,000 +40.26% 7
Work from Home +70 45 £54,000 +12.46% 7
South East +4 35 £59,000 +18.00% 4
North of England +61 28 £50,000 +57.48% 2
Yorkshire +93 17 £50,000 +66.67% 1
North West +18 11 £52,500 +54.41%
London +81 3 £67,500 +35.00% 7
West Midlands +13 2 £38,500 -30.00%
Midlands -11 2 £38,500 -23.00% 1
South West -22 1 - -

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 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) HFM
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.17%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (28.99%) Entra ID
3 18 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (20.29%) Azure Storage
5 13 (18.84%) AWS
6 4 (5.80%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.80%) TestFlight
7 3 (4.35%) SaaS
8 2 (2.90%) IaaS
8 2 (2.90%) PaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.45%) GitHub
9 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (43.48%) DHCP
1 30 (43.48%) DNS
2 26 (37.68%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) FTP
3 4 (5.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.45%) Power BI
3 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.70%) Dreamweaver
3 2 (2.90%) Selenium
4 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) JUnit
4 1 (1.45%) Maven
4 1 (1.45%) MSI
4 1 (1.45%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 32 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Finance
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Banking
4 6 (8.70%) Marketing
5 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
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
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory Specialist
1 20 (28.99%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (21.74%) Support Specialist
3 14 (20.29%) Active Directory Support
4 13 (18.84%) 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%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.80%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Junior
8 4 (5.80%) Senior C# Developer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) .NET
2 14 (20.29%) ARM Templates
3 12 (17.39%) HTML
4 11 (15.94%) ASP.NET
5 7 (10.14%) Classic ASP
5 7 (10.14%) CSS
5 7 (10.14%) HTML5
6 6 (8.70%) jQuery
6 6 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (8.70%) Web Services
7 5 (7.25%) EDI
7 5 (7.25%) XML
8 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.80%) EDIFACT
8 4 (5.80%) JSON
8 4 (5.80%) React
8 4 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (2.90%) SOAP
9 2 (2.90%) WSH
10 1 (1.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.99%) PKI
2 19 (27.54%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.25%) Clustering
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.45%) Derivative
6 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (84.06%) Windows
2 40 (57.97%) Windows Server
3 31 (44.93%) Linux
4 26 (37.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.80%) Android
8 4 (5.80%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.45%) CentOS
9 1 (1.45%) Debian
9 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.45%) Scientific Linux
9 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Release Management
2 20 (28.99%) Analytics
2 20 (28.99%) Log Analytics
3 16 (23.19%) Agile
4 15 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 15 (21.74%) DevOps
4 15 (21.74%) ITIL
5 14 (20.29%) Identity Management
5 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (20.29%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.29%) RBAC
5 14 (20.29%) Service Management
6 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (14.49%) Project Management
7 7 (10.14%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (5.80%) Fintech
8 4 (5.80%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (5.80%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) PowerShell
2 38 (55.07%) VB
3 36 (52.17%) C#
4 28 (40.58%) SQL
5 14 (20.29%) Bicep
6 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
6 13 (18.84%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.70%) VB.NET
7 6 (8.70%) VBA
8 5 (7.25%) Java
9 4 (5.80%) ActionScript
9 4 (5.80%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (5.80%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.80%) Swift
10 3 (4.35%) Python
11 1 (1.45%) Formula Language
11 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (42.03%) Degree
2 23 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 21 (30.43%) DV Cleared
4 14 (20.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (20.29%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (18.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (17.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.80%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (21.74%) SCCM
3 14 (20.29%) Kubernetes
3 14 (20.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (20.29%) SCOM
3 14 (20.29%) WSUS
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 46 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Cisco
2 13 (18.84%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Citrix
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.90%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.45%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.45%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Pega
6 1 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) UiPath