Visual Studio Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Visual Studio
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 77 88
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -31
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 16 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.78% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.88% 5.44% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 6
10th Percentile £440 £363 £276
25th Percentile £500 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £388
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +32.26% -20.92%
75th Percentile £619 £579 £430
90th Percentile - £601 £441
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -6.82% +33.33% -15.82%

All Development Application Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 147 147 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.32% 14.34% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 105 119
10th Percentile £413 £400 £268
25th Percentile £501 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +19.44% -
75th Percentile £675 £623 £581
90th Percentile £688 £706 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £520 £463
% change year-on-year +12.98% +12.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +6.87% +9.17%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Reading

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Reading

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Reading over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in Reading

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Reading

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Jadu
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
1 8 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Azure API Management
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Functions
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Figma
4 1 (6.25%) npm
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (12.50%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.25%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) rollup.js
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
2 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
2 1 (6.25%) webpack
2 1 (6.25%) Xcode
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Architect
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) .NET
2 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET
3 5 (31.25%) ARM Templates
4 4 (25.00%) JSON
4 4 (25.00%) SOAP
4 4 (25.00%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) OAuth
5 3 (18.75%) OpenID
5 3 (18.75%) REST
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (12.50%) RESTful
7 1 (6.25%) CSS
7 1 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (6.25%) LAMP
7 1 (6.25%) Next.js
7 1 (6.25%) React
7 1 (6.25%) Redux
7 1 (6.25%) Sass
7 1 (6.25%) Symfony
7 1 (6.25%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.25%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Application Security
3 6 (37.50%) Break/Fix
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (37.50%) Security Testing
4 5 (31.25%) B2C
5 4 (25.00%) OO
5 4 (25.00%) SOLID
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) Proactive Maintenance
7 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
7 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) User Experience
8 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) C#
1 12 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PHP
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce