Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Visual Studio
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 125 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +45
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.19% 0.052% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.93% 0.39% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £376
25th Percentile - £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile - £638 £573
90th Percentile - - £635
London median daily rate £450 £690 £550
% change year-on-year -34.78% +25.45% +0.92%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 259 259 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.93% 13.50% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 155 215
10th Percentile £369 £383 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £717 £738 £766
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34.38
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 £36.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% +114.72% -6.86%
75th Percentile £31.13 £88.75 £45.94
90th Percentile £75.45 - £48.53
London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -50.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Central London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
City of London -13 5 £600 -4.00% 1
Visual Studio
London

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) MSI
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) System Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Entry
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) F5