Visual Studio Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 93 107
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 20 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.04% 0.91% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.90% 6.67% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 13
10th Percentile £369 £368 £363
25th Percentile £481 £459 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £428
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +28.65% -12.76%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £453
90th Percentile - - £525
South East median daily rate £575 £520 £413
% change year-on-year +10.58% +26.06% +3.13%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 202 240 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.47% 13.62% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 167 181
10th Percentile £300 £363 £331
25th Percentile £422 £450 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £453
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.02% -2.16%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £534
90th Percentile £688 £703 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £54.51
25th Percentile - - £56.77
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £60.58
Median % change year-on-year - +15.54% -
75th Percentile - - £64.44
90th Percentile - - £66.72
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% +2.46% +10.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Reading -6 17 £531 +3.66% 5
Wokingham -2 2 £463 -11.90%
Maidenhead - 2 £255 -
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Jadu
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure API Management
2 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) PaaS
4 4 (20.00%) SaaS
5 3 (15.00%) AWS
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.00%) IaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Figma
6 1 (5.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (10.00%) Big Data
4 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (10.00%) PowerPivot
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
1 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) rollup.js
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
2 1 (5.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Integration Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Architect
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) .NET
2 7 (35.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (25.00%) ARM Templates
4 4 (20.00%) JSON
4 4 (20.00%) SOAP
4 4 (20.00%) XML
5 3 (15.00%) OAuth
5 3 (15.00%) OpenID
5 3 (15.00%) REST
5 3 (15.00%) Web Services
6 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (10.00%) RESTful
7 1 (5.00%) Enzyme
7 1 (5.00%) Jest
7 1 (5.00%) LAMP
7 1 (5.00%) React
7 1 (5.00%) Redux
7 1 (5.00%) Sass
7 1 (5.00%) Symfony
7 1 (5.00%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Application Security
3 6 (30.00%) Break/Fix
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (30.00%) Security Testing
4 5 (25.00%) B2C
5 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
5 4 (20.00%) OO
5 4 (20.00%) SOLID
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (15.00%) Network Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) C#
2 12 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) PHP
6 3 (15.00%) Java
6 3 (15.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle