Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.67% - 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.80% - 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £521 - £370
25th Percentile £534 - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.09%
75th Percentile £584 - £403
90th Percentile £594 - £405
South East median daily rate £525 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +23.53% -17.07% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Development Application Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 51 35 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.88% 12.41% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 29
10th Percentile £306 £376 £342
25th Percentile £350 £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +12.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £610
90th Percentile £610 £600 £642
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - £61.50
South East median hourly rate £83.00 £57.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +43.72% -6.85% +10.98%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visual Studio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Visual Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Visual Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 5 £563 -
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) LINQ
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On