Visual Studio Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 325 285
Rank change year-on-year +59 -40 -3
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 134 114 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.50% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.95% 3.74% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 76 126
10th Percentile £339 £328 £345
25th Percentile £466 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% +5.56% +10.43%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £500
90th Percentile £619 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £535 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 16
10th Percentile - £51.13 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.47 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -14.51% +36.68%
75th Percentile - £63.13 £67.50
90th Percentile - £65.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.52% +37.43%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,252 3,051 4,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.81% 13.39% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 2,130 3,173
10th Percentile £350 £337 £360
25th Percentile £413 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.36%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £584
90th Percentile £660 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 165 110
10th Percentile £40.00 £47.75 £41.94
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.84
90th Percentile £78.00 £79.20 £76.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Midlands +65 50 £535 -1.61% 20
West Midlands +60 50 £535 -6.96% 14
South East 0 33 £600 +15.38% 21
South West +14 18 £585 +17.00% 15
East of England +1 18 £550 +29.41% 4
North of England +11 7 £458 +0.55% 19
Scotland +34 5 £475 +5.56% 9
North West +20 4 £515 +37.33% 13
Yorkshire +11 3 £350 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
Wales +17 1 £210 -35.38% 1
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (2.24%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Jadu
3 1 (0.75%) Kentico
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Relativity
2 1 (0.75%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.36%) Azure
2 28 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.72%) AWS
5 7 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (4.48%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.48%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.73%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.73%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.73%) Serverless
8 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.99%) SaaS
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.24%) IaaS
9 3 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.24%) PaaS
10 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) Ethernet
1 11 (8.21%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.73%) RS-232
3 3 (2.24%) Network Security
3 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) 2G
4 1 (0.75%) 5G
4 1 (0.75%) Link 16
4 1 (0.75%) MQTT
4 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.96%) Power BI
3 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.73%) MySQL
5 4 (2.99%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.49%) Big Data
7 2 (1.49%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.49%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.75%) MS Access
8 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.75%) QlikView
8 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (31.34%) PVCS
2 34 (25.37%) Git
3 17 (12.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.70%) Eclipse
5 10 (7.46%) Postman
6 9 (6.72%) NUnit
7 5 (3.73%) JIRA
7 5 (3.73%) Selenium
7 5 (3.73%) Subversion
8 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (2.24%) GitLab
9 3 (2.24%) ReSharper
9 3 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.49%) Maven
11 1 (0.75%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.75%) Mockito
11 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 24 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.96%) Military
3 12 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.99%) Finance
6 2 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.75%) Automotive
7 1 (0.75%) Avionics
7 1 (0.75%) Banking
7 1 (0.75%) Electronics
7 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Local Government
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.75%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 41 (30.60%) Programmer
2 39 (29.10%) C Programmer
3 37 (27.61%) Developer
4 21 (15.67%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) C# Software Engineer
6 12 (8.96%) Analyst
7 11 (8.21%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Test Automation Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Senior
10 6 (4.48%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.48%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Test Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.99%) Lead
11 4 (2.99%) Power Platform Developer
12 3 (2.24%) Azure Developer
12 3 (2.24%) Integration Developer
12 3 (2.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (37.31%) .NET
2 20 (14.93%) Web Services
3 13 (9.70%) ASP.NET
4 12 (8.96%) Node.js
5 11 (8.21%) .NET Framework
6 9 (6.72%) Playwright
7 8 (5.97%) REST
7 8 (5.97%) XML
8 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.22%) WPF
9 6 (4.48%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.48%) SOAP
9 6 (4.48%) WinForms
10 5 (3.73%) Entity Framework
10 5 (3.73%) HTML
10 5 (3.73%) JSON
11 4 (2.99%) XSLT
12 3 (2.24%) ARM Templates
13 2 (1.49%) React
13 2 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.24%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.24%) NHS
3 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.90%) Windows
2 20 (14.93%) Linux
3 6 (4.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.75%) Android
4 1 (0.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.58%) Agile
2 36 (26.87%) DevOps
3 26 (19.40%) CI/CD
4 25 (18.66%) Software Engineering
5 20 (14.93%) TDD
5 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
6 19 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (11.94%) Unit Testing
9 14 (10.45%) Visualisation
10 13 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (9.70%) Continuous Delivery
10 13 (9.70%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (9.70%) Digital Twin
10 13 (9.70%) Synthetic Environment
11 12 (8.96%) Validation
12 11 (8.21%) Verification and Validation
13 9 (6.72%) Scrum
14 8 (5.97%) BDD
14 8 (5.97%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.76%) C#
2 47 (35.07%) C
3 43 (32.09%) PL/SQL
4 31 (23.13%) C++
5 27 (20.15%) SQL
6 20 (14.93%) JavaScript
7 17 (12.69%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.96%) Python
9 8 (5.97%) Java
10 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.99%) PHP
11 4 (2.99%) VB
11 4 (2.99%) VB6
12 3 (2.24%) Ruby
13 2 (1.49%) C++/CLI
14 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.75%) R
14 1 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.75%) VBA
14 1 (0.75%) XAML
Qualifications
1 64 (47.76%) Security Cleared
2 63 (47.01%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.99%) Degree
3 4 (2.99%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.24%) ISEB
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) GxP
4 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (7.46%) Docker
2 7 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.75%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (10.45%) Ansible
2 3 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Oracle
3 4 (2.99%) Infragistics
4 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.24%) VMware
5 2 (1.49%) Databricks
5 2 (1.49%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.75%) Brio
6 1 (0.75%) Intel
6 1 (0.75%) Pardot
6 1 (0.75%) SAP