Visual Studio Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 364 454 373
Rank change year-on-year +90 -81 -42
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 220 272 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.46% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.25% 3.07% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 193 404
10th Percentile £375 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -2.38% +11.11%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +18.89% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 15
10th Percentile £46.25 £42.13 £42.62
25th Percentile £49.06 £51.25 £49.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £63.60
90th Percentile - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £61.08
% change year-on-year +20.93% -11.99% +35.72%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,179 8,868 15,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 15.01% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,484 6,238 11,275
10th Percentile £355 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 242 211
10th Percentile £33.60 £44.68 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.63 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +70 198 £535 +2.88% 135
UK excluding London +43 124 £535 +18.89% 100
Work from Home +78 99 £535 +1.90% 61
London +81 75 £550 - 35
Midlands +70 49 £535 +15.68% 29
West Midlands +62 48 £535 +23.70% 23
South East +12 36 £575 +10.58% 30
South West +25 15 £585 +17.00% 17
East of England -11 15 £550 +49.15% 5
North of England +14 5 £408 -5.23% 15
Yorkshire +14 3 £350 -23.08% 2
North West +20 2 £520 +30.00% 13
Northern Ireland +8 2 - -
Scotland +23 1 - - 8
East Midlands +18 1 - - 6
Wales +15 1 £210 -35.38%

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.36%) CMS
2 3 (1.36%) IIS
2 3 (1.36%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) Jadu
3 2 (0.91%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.45%) Kentico
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Mingle
4 1 (0.45%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) LabWindows
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Endur
2 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (37.73%) Azure
2 58 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.73%) AWS
5 16 (7.27%) Serverless
6 15 (6.82%) Azure Functions
7 14 (6.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (6.36%) Entra ID
8 12 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (4.55%) PaaS
10 9 (4.09%) Azure API Management
10 9 (4.09%) SaaS
11 8 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (3.64%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.73%) GitHub
14 4 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
15 3 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.55%) Ethernet
1 10 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.27%) RS-232
3 3 (1.36%) Network Security
3 3 (1.36%) VPN
4 2 (0.91%) Firewall
5 1 (0.45%) 2G
5 1 (0.45%) 5G
5 1 (0.45%) MQTT
5 1 (0.45%) NFC
5 1 (0.45%) PPP
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (5.45%) Power BI
4 10 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.82%) Tableau
9 3 (1.36%) MySQL
9 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.91%) SSDT
11 1 (0.45%) Big Data
11 1 (0.45%) Power Query
11 1 (0.45%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (24.55%) PVCS
2 41 (18.64%) Git
3 23 (10.45%) Selenium
3 23 (10.45%) SpecFlow
4 22 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 18 (8.18%) WebDriver
6 13 (5.91%) Eclipse
6 13 (5.91%) Postman
7 11 (5.00%) JIRA
7 11 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (4.55%) NUnit
9 7 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (2.27%) MSI
11 5 (2.27%) Subversion
11 5 (2.27%) WiX
12 4 (1.82%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.82%) Moq
13 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.18%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.45%) Finance
4 14 (6.36%) Banking
5 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.55%) Military
8 8 (3.64%) Back Office
8 8 (3.64%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.18%) Front Office
10 6 (2.73%) Marketing
11 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Electronics
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Automotive
12 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (31.36%) Developer
2 53 (24.09%) Programmer
3 51 (23.18%) C Programmer
4 32 (14.55%) Analyst
5 27 (12.27%) Senior
6 24 (10.91%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.64%) C# Developer
8 18 (8.18%) Test Analyst
9 16 (7.27%) .NET Developer
10 15 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (6.82%) Senior Test Analyst
11 13 (5.91%) C# Software Engineer
12 11 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
13 9 (4.09%) Azure Developer
13 9 (4.09%) Integration Developer
14 8 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
15 7 (3.18%) Architect
15 7 (3.18%) Software Developer
15 7 (3.18%) Test Automation Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (40.91%) .NET
2 31 (14.09%) XML
3 29 (13.18%) .NET Framework
4 28 (12.73%) AngularJS
5 21 (9.55%) REST
6 20 (9.09%) JSON
7 18 (8.18%) ASP.NET
7 18 (8.18%) Web Services
8 17 (7.73%) Entity Framework
9 11 (5.00%) Node.js
9 11 (5.00%) React
10 10 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.55%) ARM Templates
11 9 (4.09%) HTML
11 9 (4.09%) RESTful
11 9 (4.09%) SOAP
12 8 (3.64%) OAuth
12 8 (3.64%) Playwright
13 7 (3.18%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.18%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.55%) Derivative
2 6 (2.73%) Client/Server
2 6 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (2.73%) Equities
2 6 (2.73%) Fixed Income
2 6 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (2.73%) NHS
2 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.27%) Web 2.0
4 4 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.82%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.82%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.82%) Replication
5 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (0.91%) Social Media
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.64%) Windows
2 28 (12.73%) Linux
3 6 (2.73%) Unix
3 6 (2.73%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.91%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (35.00%) Agile
2 70 (31.82%) DevOps
3 52 (23.64%) CI/CD
4 40 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 39 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (17.27%) Scrum
7 33 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 33 (15.00%) TDD
8 28 (12.73%) Performance Testing
9 24 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (10.45%) Migration
11 19 (8.64%) B2C
11 19 (8.64%) BDD
11 19 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (8.64%) Software Testing
11 19 (8.64%) Unit Testing
12 18 (8.18%) Manual Testing
13 15 (6.82%) OO
14 14 (6.36%) Configuration Management
14 14 (6.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 108 (49.09%) C#
2 63 (28.64%) SQL
3 59 (26.82%) C
4 55 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 42 (19.09%) PowerShell
6 38 (17.27%) C++
7 29 (13.18%) JavaScript
8 21 (9.55%) Python
9 14 (6.36%) Java
10 12 (5.45%) T-SQL
11 8 (3.64%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.18%) VBA
13 5 (2.27%) PHP
14 4 (1.82%) Perl
14 4 (1.82%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.36%) Bicep
15 3 (1.36%) Ruby
16 2 (0.91%) Bash
16 2 (0.91%) C++/CLI
16 2 (0.91%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 79 (35.91%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.45%) Degree
4 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.73%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.36%) ISEB
6 3 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) QA
2 9 (4.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) HL7
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
4 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.36%) Docker
3 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (6.36%) Ansible
2 4 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.36%) PingFederate
3 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.91%) SCOM
4 2 (0.91%) Terraform
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 72 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.82%) Oracle
3 3 (1.36%) HP
3 3 (1.36%) IBM
3 3 (1.36%) Proofpoint
3 3 (1.36%) SAP
3 3 (1.36%) Symantec
3 3 (1.36%) VMware
4 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.91%) Google
4 2 (0.91%) Optimizely
4 2 (0.91%) Remedy
4 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.91%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe
5 1 (0.45%) Brio
5 1 (0.45%) Databricks
5 1 (0.45%) Intel
5 1 (0.45%) Pardot
5 1 (0.45%) Snow