Visual Studio Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Studio
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 161 164
Rank change year-on-year +46 +3 -33
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 10 9 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.25% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.68% 1.70% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 22
10th Percentile £417 £463 £351
25th Percentile £475 £505 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% -5.12% -12.24%
75th Percentile £573 £529 £689
90th Percentile £638 £544 £723
Central London median daily rate £565 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +10.78% -7.27% -10.20%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 272 529 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.48% 14.90% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 341 711
10th Percentile £402 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £601 £581
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +3.45% +10.57%
75th Percentile £675 £744 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £51.85
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £54.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -14.63% +112.07%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £71.75
90th Percentile - - £75.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.75 £52.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year -22.38% -14.63% +112.07%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
1 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) git-flow
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (30.00%) jQuery
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Proofpoint
2 3 (30.00%) Symantec