Visual Studio Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 16 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.14% - 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.38% - 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £405 - £314
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile £486 - £580
South East median daily rate £425 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -26.09% +10.58% +26.06%

All Development Application Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 104 166 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.94% 10.31% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 87 121
10th Percentile £356 £370 £410
25th Percentile £425 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £607 £628
90th Percentile £655 £680 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 25
10th Percentile £50.32 £57.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £53.13 £59.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.63 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £71.28
90th Percentile £64.63 £76.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Hampshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Hampshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Hampshire

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Farnborough - 15 £425 - 2
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Delphi Developer
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 16 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 10 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Operational Stability
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) Delphi
1 16 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle