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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.79% - 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.60% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £413
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -8.33%

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 197 110 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.13% 16.30% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 77 102
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £421 £382 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £572
90th Percentile £614 £672 £699
Scotland median daily rate £491 £482 £476
% change year-on-year +1.87% +1.10% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £15.96 - £62.84
25th Percentile £16.84 - £63.83
Median hourly rate £17.45 - £66.56
75th Percentile £18.05 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.09%

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
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 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 13 (100.00%) GitHub
2 9 (69.23%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (46.15%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 13 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 13 (100.00%) JIRA
1 13 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 13 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
3 8 (61.54%) Git
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Python Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Python Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Public Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Virtual Team
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
1 13 (100.00%) SDLC
2 10 (76.92%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (61.54%) Build Automation
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 7 (53.85%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Investment Management
6 3 (23.08%) Wealth Management
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) Software Distribution
7 2 (15.38%) Technology Transformation
8 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
8 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
1 13 (100.00%) Java
1 13 (100.00%) Python
1 13 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Ansible
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform