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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 11 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.46% - 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.55% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £471 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.57%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £463 £650
% change year-on-year +18.92% -28.85% +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 168 122 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.25% 16.16% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 84 112
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £408 £362 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £555 £500 £634
90th Percentile £628 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £474 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.33% -10.00% +6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.84 - -
Median hourly rate £17.45 - -
75th Percentile £18.05 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

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 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
1 10 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MSDE
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Bitbucket
1 10 (90.91%) IntelliJ
1 10 (90.91%) JIRA
1 10 (90.91%) PyCharm
1 10 (90.91%) Visual Studio Code
2 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (54.55%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) NUnit
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Python Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Python Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) HTML Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Public Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) SDLC
3 7 (63.64%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (63.64%) Issue Tracking
4 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) Investment Management
6 3 (27.27%) Wealth Management
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) Software Distribution
7 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
8 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (90.91%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft