Visual Studio Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Visual Studio
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 53 66 91
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 -12
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 2 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.37% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.23% 7.02% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £517 -
25th Percentile £513 £580 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +24.21% -
75th Percentile £538 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £568 £585 £488
% change year-on-year -2.99% +20.00% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -5.66%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -5.66%

All Development Application Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 62 114 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.55% 10.79% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 100
10th Percentile £319 £367 £362
25th Percentile £375 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £566 £469
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +20.80% -6.25%
75th Percentile £574 £628 £588
90th Percentile £676 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £550 £540 £513
% change year-on-year +1.85% +5.37% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 34 41
10th Percentile £69.88 £62.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £77.19 £65.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £82.73 £67.38 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.79% +9.55% -3.30%
75th Percentile £85.31 £73.64 £68.75
90th Percentile £88.13 £82.90 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £67.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year +11.52% +9.35% +10.14%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Bristol

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Bristol

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Bristol

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Twin
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Environment
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP