Visual Studio Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 203 182
Rank change year-on-year +23 -21 -31
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 5 17 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.99% 2.09% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 35
10th Percentile £254 £363 £363
25th Percentile £350 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £533 £488 £488
90th Percentile £536 - £500
England median daily rate £535 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - £45.60 -
25th Percentile - £49.80 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £44.68
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -9.74%
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.08
% change year-on-year +18.18% -9.95% +35.72%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 505 814 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.59% 13.96% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 620 825
10th Percentile £375 £350 £358
25th Percentile £419 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £646 £700 £650
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 23
10th Percentile £44.09 £37.80 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.81 £38.46
Median hourly rate £53.09 £49.88 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +17.35% +41.67%
75th Percentile £70.31 £56.00 £49.09
90th Percentile £81.15 £60.50 £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.97% +21.46% +6.45%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Yorkshire +21 3 £350 -26.32% 3
North West +14 2 £520 +30.00% 17
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Kentico
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Contentful
2 1 (20.00%) Contentstack
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (20.00%) QlikView
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Brio
2 1 (20.00%) Intel