Visual Studio Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 333 317 385
Rank change year-on-year -16 +68 -45
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 20 74 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 3.18% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 62 86
10th Percentile £413 £375 £419
25th Percentile £533 £419 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £812 £663 £720
90th Percentile £950 £775 £750
England median daily rate £438 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -18.22% +2.88% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -9.95%

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 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London -4 1 £625 +10.62%
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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.00%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (5.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.00%) Matillion
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (15.00%) Big Data
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) DB2
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Banking
2 10 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Back Office
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Agile C# Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Agile Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C++ Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Qualitative Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Quantitative Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Information Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (5.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) SignalR
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) Web Services
5 1 (5.00%) WSDL
5 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Derivative
2 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (20.00%) Equities
4 3 (15.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (5.00%) DataPower
6 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (5.00%) Housing Association
6 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (5.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Mathematics
4 6 (30.00%) Numerical Analysis
4 6 (30.00%) Quantitative Finance
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Physics
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Parallel Programming
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Design Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) PnL Attribution
7 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
8 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) C++
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Ruby
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
1 6 (30.00%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) EMIR
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.00%) CQG
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 1 (5.00%) NEC
3 1 (5.00%) Reuters
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Solace