Visual Studio Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Visual Studio
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 72 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% - 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.70% - 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £280 - £373
25th Percentile £306 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £444 - £488
90th Percentile £500 - £518
North West median daily rate £425 £520 £400
% change year-on-year -18.27% +30.00% -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 149 203 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.09% 13.38% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 159 177
10th Percentile £322 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £638
90th Percentile £635 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £71.63 £61.38 £40.68
25th Percentile £72.19 £65.31 £42.30
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -
75th Percentile £77.81 £81.38 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.05 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 2 - - 4
Visual Studio
North West

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Dremio
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Shiny
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Brio