Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in Essex

Microsoft Visual Studio
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.70% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £550
% change year-on-year - - +65.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year -0.38% - -

All Development Application Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 14 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 9.86% 15.12% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £300 £319 -
25th Percentile £425 £321 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -35.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £638 £550
90th Percentile £515 £660 £580
East of England median daily rate £492 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +6.38% +2.78% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £65.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Essex

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Visual Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Visual Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
Basildon - 1 - -
Visual Studio
East of England

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText
1 1 (100.00%) Serena