Visual Studio Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Visual Studio
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.30% 0.19% 2.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.04% 1.59% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £503
25th Percentile - £313 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £325 £625
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% -48.00% +78.57%
75th Percentile - £338 £675
90th Percentile - - £688
Wales median daily rate £210 £325 £613
% change year-on-year -35.38% -46.94% +75.00%

All Development Application Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 49 63 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.71% 12.19% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 110
10th Percentile £358 £413 £365
25th Percentile £431 £438 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +4.76% +21.39%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £620 £653 £689
Wales median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.14% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.88%
Wales median hourly rate - - £20.75
% change year-on-year - - -9.88%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in South Wales

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in South Wales

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in South Wales

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cardiff +9 1 £210 -35.38%
Visual Studio
Wales

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft