Visual Studio Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 65 83
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +1
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.35% 2.13% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile - - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.28%
75th Percentile - - £484
90th Percentile - - £486
England median daily rate £438 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -18.22% +2.88% -0.95%

All Development Application Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 74 47 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.81% 6.08% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 38 125
10th Percentile £255 £288 £231
25th Percentile £361 £355 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £399 £390
Median % change year-on-year +13.98% +2.24% -16.13%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £550
90th Percentile £537 £549 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £41.40
25th Percentile - - £48.38
Median hourly rate £18.20 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £67.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the East Midlands

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the East Midlands

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the East Midlands

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle