Visual Studio Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Studio
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 116 162
Rank change year-on-year -2 +46 -4
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.39% 3.68% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £417 £463
25th Percentile £613 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £565 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +10.78% -5.12%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £529
90th Percentile - £638 £544
Central London median daily rate £625 £565 £510
% change year-on-year +10.62% +10.78% -7.27%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 259 272 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.74% 12.38% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 185 356
10th Percentile £413 £402 £425
25th Percentile £442 £463 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.37% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £745
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.82% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CRUD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EMIR
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (100.00%) CQG
1 1 (100.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Reuters