Visual Studio Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 148 180 203
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 -21
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 18 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.10% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.61% 0.99% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 11
10th Percentile £329 £254 £363
25th Percentile £350 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £408 £435
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% -6.32% -3.33%
75th Percentile £513 £533 £488
90th Percentile £568 £536 -
England median daily rate £438 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -18.22% +2.88% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -9.95%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 498 505 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 10.59% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 369 620
10th Percentile £335 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West +23 8 £425 -18.27% 24
Yorkshire +12 7 £389 +11.14% 11
North East - 3 £370 - 1
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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) Dremio
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.11%) Redis
4 2 (11.11%) Tableau
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) JIRA
2 7 (38.89%) Cucumber
3 6 (33.33%) Git
4 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (16.67%) Vagrant
4 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (11.11%) Subversion
6 1 (5.56%) git-flow
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) French Language
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) C++ Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Gherkin
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) CSS
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Data Transformation
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Analytical Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) API Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Ruby
3 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) R
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Databricks
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) Brio
4 2 (11.11%) New Relic