Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft Visual Studio
Scotland > Glasgow

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 76 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.29% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.63% 1.39% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £471 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -30.77% +48.57%
75th Percentile £546 £475 -
90th Percentile £563 - -
Scotland median daily rate £725 £456 £650
% change year-on-year +58.90% -29.81% +44.44%

All Development Application Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 123 144 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.70% 18.70% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 99 115
10th Percentile £313 £348 £368
25th Percentile £391 £363 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -11.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £500 £588
90th Percentile £606 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £57.86 - -
25th Percentile £59.35 - -
Median hourly rate £61.84 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.84 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MSDE
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) HTML Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft