Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 120 125
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.21% 2.93% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £328 £526
25th Percentile £313 £331 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -41.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £338 £375 £613
90th Percentile - £419 £635
England median daily rate £450 £450 £559
% change year-on-year - -19.46% +3.47%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 482 239 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.29% 10.36% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 166 146
10th Percentile £332 £350 £303
25th Percentile £403 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -12.41%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £570
90th Percentile £643 £685 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £41.63 - £57.16
25th Percentile £50.06 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £62.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -13.65% +4.46%
75th Percentile £70.38 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £74.65 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
West Midlands -34 1 £325 -16.93% 3
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Moqups
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (100.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft