Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 330 331
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 +44
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 39 26 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.64% 1.42% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 58
10th Percentile £400 £372 £375
25th Percentile - £470 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £491 £714 £638
90th Percentile £1,005 £930 £800
England median daily rate £450 £452 £535
% change year-on-year -0.44% -15.51% +2.88%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,375 1,831 2,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.54% 14.11% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,604 1,255 1,652
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 19
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £28.98
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £76.75 £71.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visual Studio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Visual Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in London over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Visual Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Visual Studio

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 16 March 2026. 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 -7 1 £370 -43.51%
East London - 1 £1,000 -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) CICS
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) Power Platform
3 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (12.82%) Power Automate
4 5 (12.82%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.69%) AWS
5 3 (7.69%) Serverless
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) DB2
5 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (7.69%) Selenium
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) NUnit
3 2 (5.13%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) MSTest
4 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Coded UI
4 1 (2.56%) XPEDITER
General
1 24 (61.54%) Finance
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (76.92%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) C# Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 4 (10.26%) .NET Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Automation Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.56%) C++ Developer
7 1 (2.56%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Automation Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) .NET
2 11 (28.21%) .NET Framework
3 5 (12.82%) OAuth
4 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
4 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (10.26%) SAML
5 2 (5.13%) PySpark
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (2.56%) FHIR
6 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.56%) JSON
6 1 (2.56%) JWT
6 1 (2.56%) SOAP
6 1 (2.56%) Spring
6 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) Web Services
6 1 (2.56%) WSDL
6 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.82%) Derivative
2 4 (10.26%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) DataPower
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
1 11 (28.21%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (41.03%) Unit Testing
3 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 11 (28.21%) Change Management
4 11 (28.21%) Data Analysis
4 11 (28.21%) DevOps
4 11 (28.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (17.95%) Agile
6 6 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.82%) User Experience
7 5 (12.82%) UX Design
8 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
8 4 (10.26%) Quantitative Finance
8 4 (10.26%) RBAC
8 4 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (7.69%) Analytics
9 3 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 13 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 12 (30.77%) PL/SQL
4 12 (30.77%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) C++
5 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.26%) X++
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) C
7 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) Java
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Degree
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) HP APS
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (38.46%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Citrix
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) HP
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) RedGate
3 1 (2.56%) Sitecore