Visual Studio Team System Contracts in England

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Visual Studio Team System skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Team System over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 590 595
Rank change year-on-year +62 +5 -113
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 17 69 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.91% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 33 75
10th Percentile £378 £413 £411
25th Percentile £400 £458 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +19.79% -12.73%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £600
90th Percentile £523 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -21.74% +19.79% -8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £33.00

All Development Application Skills
England

Visual Studio Team System 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 4,225 7,617 12,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.37% 15.03% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 5,370 9,027
10th Percentile £355 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 227 188
10th Percentile £31.71 £43.88 £38.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.63% +20.00% +13.26%

Visual Studio Team System
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Team System in England

Visual Studio Team System
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Team System in England

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Team System in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Team System in England

Visual Studio Team System
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Team System in England

Visual Studio Team System
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 Team System within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +76 15 £450 -21.74% 1
West Midlands +26 1 - -
Midlands +23 1 - - 2
Visual Studio Team System
UK

Visual Studio Team System
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 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Azure Functions
2 11 (64.71%) Azure Service Bus
2 11 (64.71%) Serverless
3 9 (52.94%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Azure API Management
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Batch
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Storage
4 7 (41.18%) Power Automate
4 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
4 7 (41.18%) PowerApps
5 4 (23.53%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
6 2 (11.76%) SaaS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (41.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (41.18%) OLTP
3 6 (35.29%) Big Data
3 6 (35.29%) Data Lake
3 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Applications Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Commodities Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) JSON
2 8 (47.06%) XML
3 7 (41.18%) ARM Templates
4 6 (35.29%) .NET
4 6 (35.29%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) BYOD
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.88%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
4 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 8 (47.06%) Migration
5 7 (41.18%) API Management
5 7 (41.18%) BDD
5 7 (41.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (41.18%) TDD
6 6 (35.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (35.29%) Business Analysis
6 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
6 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Kanban
6 6 (35.29%) OWASP
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
6 6 (35.29%) Secure Coding
6 6 (35.29%) SOA
7 5 (29.41%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 6 (35.29%) Java
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
1 4 (23.53%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) JDA
2 1 (5.88%) RedPrairie