Visual Studio Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Visual Studio
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 6 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.57% 0.87% 1.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.61% 6.75% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £507 - £413
25th Percentile £554 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% - -
75th Percentile £590 £488 £531
90th Percentile - - £558
South West median daily rate £585 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.66% -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £63.60
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.66% -

All Development Application Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 107 163 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.20% 12.92% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 97 150
10th Percentile £390 £361 £325
25th Percentile £500 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.12% -6.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £641 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £632
South West median daily rate £550 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 43 19
10th Percentile £60.73 £53.75 £42.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £57.25 £50.42
Median hourly rate £67.25 £61.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -3.30% +27.20%
75th Percentile £73.64 £67.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.50 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.84
% change year-on-year +5.69% +10.14% +11.68%

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 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) NUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Military
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Twin
4 2 (33.33%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Pardot
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) SAP