Visual Studio Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 386 344
Rank change year-on-year +66 -42 -40
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 74 109 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.40% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 2.45% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 87 219
10th Percentile £375 £420 £413
25th Percentile £419 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £716 £750
90th Percentile £775 £750 £825
England median daily rate £535 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.28
25th Percentile - - £65.69
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.83% -
75th Percentile - - £78.19
90th Percentile - - £81.83
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.08
% change year-on-year +18.18% -9.95% +35.72%

All Development Application Skills
London

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,314 4,457 7,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.07% 16.46% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 3,185 5,636
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 74
10th Percentile £23.20 £49.73 £39.43
25th Percentile £25.99 £56.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +29.21% -31.54%
75th Percentile £71.25 £76.25 £70.39
90th Percentile £71.63 £85.50 £79.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +38 9 £565 +10.78% 7
East London -5 1 £435 -13.00% 1
West London - 1 £530 -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) CMS
2 2 (2.70%) EPiServer
2 2 (2.70%) IIS
2 2 (2.70%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Jadu
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Endur
1 2 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (63.51%) Azure
2 34 (45.95%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
4 10 (13.51%) AWS
5 9 (12.16%) Serverless
6 8 (10.81%) Azure Functions
6 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (8.11%) PaaS
8 5 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (5.41%) SaaS
10 3 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (4.05%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (4.05%) GitHub
10 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.35%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Power BI
4 3 (4.05%) Tableau
5 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) SSDT
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) Redis
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) SpecFlow
2 17 (22.97%) Selenium
3 15 (20.27%) WebDriver
4 14 (18.92%) Git
5 6 (8.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (6.76%) MSI
6 5 (6.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (6.76%) WiX
7 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.41%) Moq
7 4 (5.41%) Postman
7 4 (5.41%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.05%) Appium
8 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.05%) JIRA
8 3 (4.05%) LoadRunner
8 3 (4.05%) Rational Performance Tester
9 2 (2.70%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.70%) JMeter
9 2 (2.70%) NUnit
General
1 24 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
4 8 (10.81%) Back Office
5 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.11%) Front Office
6 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Legal
7 3 (4.05%) Marketing
8 2 (2.70%) Electronics
8 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (36.49%) Developer
2 19 (25.68%) Senior
3 18 (24.32%) Analyst
4 14 (18.92%) Senior Analyst
4 14 (18.92%) Senior Test Analyst
4 14 (18.92%) Test Analyst
5 11 (14.86%) C# Developer
6 10 (13.51%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Architect
10 4 (5.41%) Azure Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Qualitative Analyst
10 4 (5.41%) Quantitative Analyst
11 3 (4.05%) .NET Applications Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) C# Application Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Data Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (60.81%) .NET
2 22 (29.73%) XML
3 21 (28.38%) .NET Framework
3 21 (28.38%) AngularJS
4 15 (20.27%) Entity Framework
4 15 (20.27%) REST
5 10 (13.51%) JSON
6 8 (10.81%) .NET Core
6 8 (10.81%) LINQ
7 6 (8.11%) React
7 6 (8.11%) RESTful
8 5 (6.76%) ARM Templates
8 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (6.76%) NHibernate
8 5 (6.76%) XSLT
9 4 (5.41%) jQuery
9 4 (5.41%) Playwright
9 4 (5.41%) SOAP
10 3 (4.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Derivative
2 6 (8.11%) Client/Server
2 6 (8.11%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.76%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (6.76%) Equities
3 5 (6.76%) Web 2.0
4 4 (5.41%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.41%) Reinsurance
4 4 (5.41%) Replication
5 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.70%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.70%) NHS
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.35%) Contactless
7 1 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Windows
2 10 (13.51%) Linux
3 6 (8.11%) Unix
4 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.35%) Android
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.76%) Agile
2 38 (51.35%) DevOps
3 28 (37.84%) Scrum
4 23 (31.08%) CI/CD
5 22 (29.73%) Test Automation
6 20 (27.03%) Performance Testing
7 16 (21.62%) TDD
8 14 (18.92%) B2C
8 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.57%) Migration
9 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.22%) BDD
11 10 (13.51%) Manual Testing
11 10 (13.51%) Software Testing
12 9 (12.16%) MVC
12 9 (12.16%) OO
12 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (10.81%) Non-Functional Testing
13 8 (10.81%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 46 (62.16%) C#
2 37 (50.00%) SQL
3 23 (31.08%) PowerShell
4 12 (16.22%) T-SQL
5 9 (12.16%) Python
6 7 (9.46%) C++
6 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.11%) VBA
8 5 (6.76%) Java
9 4 (5.41%) Perl
9 4 (5.41%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.70%) Bash
11 2 (2.70%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.35%) Bicep
12 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.35%) PHP
12 1 (1.35%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Degree
2 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.76%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) PingFederate
2 2 (2.70%) SCOM
3 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) HP
2 3 (4.05%) IBM
2 3 (4.05%) Optimizely
2 3 (4.05%) Proofpoint
2 3 (4.05%) Symantec
3 2 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.70%) Remedy
3 2 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (1.35%) Facebook
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.35%) Snow
4 1 (1.35%) Twitter