Visual Studio Coded UI Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Visual Studio Coded UI Test
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Visual Studio Coded UI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Coded UI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.031% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £351 £405 -
% change year-on-year -13.46% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Development Application Skills
North West

Visual Studio Coded UI 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 423 281 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.29% 14.51% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 200 232
10th Percentile £344 £325 £368
25th Percentile £373 £391 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £595
90th Percentile £623 £603 £673
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 8
10th Percentile £39.53 £54.33 £40.52
25th Percentile £52.50 £67.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +10.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.81 £74.63
90th Percentile £87.00 £80.70 £81.45
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%

Visual Studio Coded UI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Visual Studio Coded UI job vacancy trend in the North West

Visual Studio Coded UI
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Studio Coded UI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Studio Coded UI

Visual Studio Coded UI
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Studio Coded UI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Visual Studio Coded UI

Visual Studio Coded UI
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Coded UI within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 April 2026. 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
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Visual Studio Coded UI
England

Visual Studio Coded UI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Robot
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle