Visual Studio Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 421 364
Rank change year-on-year +66 -57 -37
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 187 244 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.44% 3.23% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 170 331
10th Percentile £375 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £691
90th Percentile £683 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £535 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +4.19% -2.19% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 14
10th Percentile - £41.45 £41.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £46.45
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -9.95% +35.72%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £63.60
90th Percentile - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +33.33%

All Development Application Skills
England

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,209 7,543 12,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.94% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 5,319 9,056
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.89%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 222 184
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.56 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +21.82% +6.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £84.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in England.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in England.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visual Studio in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London +73 74 £550 - 38
Midlands +63 48 £535 +18.89% 33
West Midlands +71 47 £535 +25.88% 26
South East +12 36 £575 +10.58% 30
South West +13 11 £585 +20.00% 22
East of England -17 9 £550 +49.15% 7
North of England +20 5 £408 -6.32% 23
Yorkshire +17 3 £350 -26.32% 5
North West +17 2 £520 +30.00% 17
East Midlands +18 1 - - 7
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) CMS
2 3 (1.60%) IIS
3 2 (1.07%) Apache
3 2 (1.07%) EPiServer
3 2 (1.07%) Jadu
3 2 (1.07%) NServiceBus
3 2 (1.07%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.53%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.07%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) LabWindows
2 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.07%) Endur
2 2 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (39.04%) Azure
2 55 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (8.56%) Serverless
4 14 (7.49%) AWS
4 14 (7.49%) Azure Functions
4 14 (7.49%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.49%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (4.81%) Azure API Management
6 9 (4.81%) Azure Key Vault
6 9 (4.81%) PaaS
7 8 (4.28%) SaaS
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.14%) GitHub
9 4 (2.14%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) Ethernet
1 6 (3.21%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.67%) RS-232
3 2 (1.07%) Firewall
3 2 (1.07%) Network Security
3 2 (1.07%) VPN
4 1 (0.53%) MQTT
4 1 (0.53%) NFC
4 1 (0.53%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.34%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.28%) Power BI
5 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.14%) Tableau
9 2 (1.07%) MySQL
9 2 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.07%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.07%) SSDT
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.53%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.53%) QlikView
10 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (22.99%) PVCS
2 39 (20.86%) Git
3 24 (12.83%) SpecFlow
4 20 (10.70%) Selenium
5 19 (10.16%) Jenkins
6 16 (8.56%) WebDriver
7 12 (6.42%) Postman
8 8 (4.28%) Eclipse
9 7 (3.74%) JIRA
9 7 (3.74%) NUnit
9 7 (3.74%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (3.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (3.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (2.67%) Moq
11 5 (2.67%) MSI
11 5 (2.67%) WiX
12 4 (2.14%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.14%) Subversion
12 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
General
1 36 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.90%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.76%) Finance
4 13 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.95%) Banking
5 8 (4.28%) Back Office
5 8 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.21%) Front Office
7 6 (3.21%) Military
8 5 (2.67%) Marketing
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Electronics
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (33.69%) Developer
2 42 (22.46%) Programmer
3 40 (21.39%) C Programmer
4 27 (14.44%) Analyst
5 25 (13.37%) Senior
6 19 (10.16%) Software Engineer
7 18 (9.63%) C# Developer
8 17 (9.09%) .NET Developer
9 16 (8.56%) Test Analyst
10 14 (7.49%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (7.49%) Senior Test Analyst
11 8 (4.28%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (4.28%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Architect
12 7 (3.74%) Azure Developer
12 7 (3.74%) C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Integration Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.21%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (42.25%) .NET
2 29 (15.51%) XML
3 28 (14.97%) AngularJS
4 25 (13.37%) .NET Framework
5 22 (11.76%) REST
6 19 (10.16%) ASP.NET
6 19 (10.16%) JSON
7 17 (9.09%) Entity Framework
8 12 (6.42%) .NET Core
9 11 (5.88%) Web Services
10 10 (5.35%) ARM Templates
10 10 (5.35%) React
11 9 (4.81%) RESTful
11 9 (4.81%) SOAP
12 8 (4.28%) HTML
12 8 (4.28%) LINQ
12 8 (4.28%) OAuth
13 7 (3.74%) CSS
13 7 (3.74%) OpenID
13 7 (3.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.81%) Derivative
2 6 (3.21%) Client/Server
2 6 (3.21%) Fixed Income
2 6 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.67%) Equities
3 5 (2.67%) NHS
3 5 (2.67%) Web 2.0
4 4 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.14%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 4 (2.14%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.14%) Reinsurance
4 4 (2.14%) Replication
5 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.07%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.07%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.58%) Windows
2 22 (11.76%) Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Unix
3 6 (3.21%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.07%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.36%) Agile
2 65 (34.76%) DevOps
3 45 (24.06%) CI/CD
4 38 (20.32%) Scrum
5 34 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.04%) TDD
8 29 (15.51%) Software Engineering
9 24 (12.83%) Performance Testing
10 20 (10.70%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (10.70%) Migration
11 19 (10.16%) B2C
12 17 (9.09%) BDD
13 16 (8.56%) Manual Testing
14 15 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (8.02%) Unit Testing
15 14 (7.49%) OO
15 14 (7.49%) Software Testing
16 13 (6.95%) Deployment Automation
16 13 (6.95%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 93 (49.73%) C#
2 57 (30.48%) SQL
3 49 (26.20%) C
4 44 (23.53%) PL/SQL
5 41 (21.93%) PowerShell
6 31 (16.58%) C++
7 23 (12.30%) JavaScript
8 19 (10.16%) Python
9 13 (6.95%) T-SQL
10 10 (5.35%) Java
11 7 (3.74%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.74%) VBA
12 4 (2.14%) Perl
12 4 (2.14%) PHP
12 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.07%) Bash
13 2 (1.07%) Bicep
13 2 (1.07%) C++/CLI
13 2 (1.07%) Ruby
13 2 (1.07%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 66 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 65 (34.76%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.23%) Degree
4 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.67%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.60%) ISEB
6 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.02%) QA
2 9 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.07%) WCAG
4 1 (0.53%) HL7
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (8.02%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.88%) Docker
3 6 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (7.49%) Ansible
2 3 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.60%) PingFederate
3 2 (1.07%) SCOM
3 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.07%) Terraform
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 60 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.60%) HP
2 3 (1.60%) IBM
2 3 (1.60%) Optimizely
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle
2 3 (1.60%) Proofpoint
2 3 (1.60%) SAP
2 3 (1.60%) Symantec
3 2 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (1.07%) Remedy
3 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.07%) VMware
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe
4 1 (0.53%) Brio
4 1 (0.53%) Databricks
4 1 (0.53%) Facebook
4 1 (0.53%) Google
4 1 (0.53%) Intel
4 1 (0.53%) Snow
4 1 (0.53%) Twitter