Visual Studio Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft Visual Studio
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.38% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £413
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -15.82%

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 200 142 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.00% 18.51% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 99 103
10th Percentile £312 £362 £343
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £575 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £469 £475 £479
% change year-on-year -1.32% -0.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £16.14 - £60.88
25th Percentile £16.84 - £61.37
Median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year -57.39% -36.40% +49.71%
75th Percentile £18.05 - £67.66
90th Percentile £18.80 - £68.31
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -57.39% -32.39% +11.10%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Glasgow

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Glasgow

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Glasgow

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
1 10 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 8 (72.73%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (45.45%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Bitbucket
1 10 (90.91%) IntelliJ
1 10 (90.91%) PyCharm
1 10 (90.91%) Visual Studio Code
2 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 9 (81.82%) JIRA
3 7 (63.64%) Git
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Python Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Public Cloud
2 6 (54.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) SDLC
2 9 (81.82%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (72.73%) Build Automation
4 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
5 5 (45.45%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
7 3 (27.27%) Software Distribution
8 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
9 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
9 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (9.09%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) Python
1 10 (90.91%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform