Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Studio
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 125 112
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +47
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.053% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 0.37% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £341
25th Percentile - £613 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% -19.15%
75th Percentile - £638 £573
90th Percentile - - £605
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% -9.09%

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 248 269 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.18% 14.35% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 164 210
10th Percentile £369 £377 £400
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -4.42% -5.83%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £723 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £551
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.41% -4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +54.64% -7.62%
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £25.90 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £40.75
% change year-on-year -74.00% +84.05% -22.38%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in the City of London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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