Visual Studio Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 247 318 302
Rank change year-on-year +71 -16 +11
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 100 151 368
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.60% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.57% 3.95% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 109 200
10th Percentile £370 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £418 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.53% +15.70%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £632
90th Percentile £665 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £535 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +4.29% -2.29% +10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 7
10th Percentile - £38.80 £41.25
25th Percentile - £55.00 £46.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £62.15
90th Percentile - - £63.29
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +33.33%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,796 3,827 8,224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.90% 15.23% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 2,743 5,934
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

Visual Studio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio.

Visual Studio daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Visual Studio daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio.

Visual Studio hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.00%) CMS
2 2 (2.00%) NServiceBus
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.00%) IIS
3 1 (1.00%) Kentico
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.00%) Azure
2 32 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (10.00%) Serverless
4 9 (9.00%) Azure Functions
4 9 (9.00%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (7.00%) Azure API Management
6 7 (7.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.00%) AWS
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.00%) PaaS
9 4 (4.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.00%) GitHub
11 2 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.00%) MQTT
2 1 (1.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.00%) NFC
2 1 (1.00%) PPP
2 1 (1.00%) RS-232
2 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.00%) Power BI
4 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.00%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.00%) QlikView
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (31.00%) PVCS
2 16 (16.00%) Git
3 11 (11.00%) SpecFlow
4 9 (9.00%) Selenium
5 7 (7.00%) Postman
5 7 (7.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (7.00%) WebDriver
6 5 (5.00%) MSI
6 5 (5.00%) WiX
7 4 (4.00%) Moq
8 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.00%) Eclipse
8 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.00%) JIRA
8 3 (3.00%) NUnit
8 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.00%) JMeter
9 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
1 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.00%) Finance
3 4 (4.00%) Banking
3 4 (4.00%) Front Office
3 4 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.00%) Electronics
4 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.00%) Marketing
4 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.00%) Back Office
5 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Military
6 1 (1.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 31 (31.00%) Developer
2 30 (30.00%) C Programmer
2 30 (30.00%) Programmer
3 15 (15.00%) Analyst
4 14 (14.00%) C# Developer
5 11 (11.00%) Senior
6 9 (9.00%) .NET Developer
6 9 (9.00%) Integration Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Test Analyst
9 6 (6.00%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (5.00%) Senior Test Analyst
10 5 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Qualitative Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) Quantitative Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (42.00%) .NET
2 15 (15.00%) XML
3 14 (14.00%) .NET Framework
3 14 (14.00%) REST
4 13 (13.00%) Entity Framework
5 11 (11.00%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.00%) JSON
6 7 (7.00%) ARM Templates
7 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (6.00%) LINQ
7 6 (6.00%) NHibernate
7 6 (6.00%) Playwright
7 6 (6.00%) SOAP
8 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.00%) HTML
8 5 (5.00%) XSLT
9 4 (4.00%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.00%) OAuth
9 4 (4.00%) WPF
10 3 (3.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.00%) NHS
2 5 (5.00%) Web 2.0
3 4 (4.00%) Derivative
3 4 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.00%) Equities
3 4 (4.00%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.00%) Contactless
6 1 (1.00%) e-Health
6 1 (1.00%) PACS
6 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) Unix
4 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.00%) DevOps
2 24 (24.00%) Agile
3 20 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
5 15 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 14 (14.00%) Scrum
7 12 (12.00%) OO
7 12 (12.00%) TDD
8 11 (11.00%) Migration
8 11 (11.00%) Performance Testing
9 10 (10.00%) Design Patterns
10 9 (9.00%) B2C
10 9 (9.00%) BDD
10 9 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.00%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (9.00%) Manual Testing
10 9 (9.00%) SDLC
10 9 (9.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.00%) C#
2 34 (34.00%) SQL
3 31 (31.00%) C
3 31 (31.00%) PL/SQL
4 15 (15.00%) C++
5 11 (11.00%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.00%) T-SQL
8 8 (8.00%) Java
8 8 (8.00%) Python
9 7 (7.00%) VBA
10 4 (4.00%) Perl
10 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.00%) Bicep
12 2 (2.00%) VB
12 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
12 2 (2.00%) VB6
13 1 (1.00%) PHP
13 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 36 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) Degree
3 4 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle
2 3 (3.00%) SAP
3 2 (2.00%) Infragistics
3 2 (2.00%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe
4 1 (1.00%) Google
4 1 (1.00%) HP
4 1 (1.00%) IBM
4 1 (1.00%) Intel
4 1 (1.00%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.00%) VMware