Visual Studio Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Visual Studio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 106 99
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +22
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.085% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.70% 8.87% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 12
10th Percentile - £430 £368
25th Percentile - £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -6.82% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £619 £600
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -26.09% +10.58% +26.06%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

Visual Studio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 143 203 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.19% 10.23% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 125 158
10th Percentile £400 £333 £363
25th Percentile £476 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +12.00% +13.51%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £618
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £50.20 - -
25th Percentile £53.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.87%
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.80 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +16 1 £517 -6.00% 4
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft