Visual Studio Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 119 153
Rank change year-on-year +3 +34 +4
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 4 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.24% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.21% 1.35% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £435 £433 £400
25th Percentile £450 £444 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £509
90th Percentile - £528 £542
UK median daily rate £460 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -14.11% +2.88% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -12.52%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 330 370 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.88% 17.31% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 246 359
10th Percentile £308 £363 £363
25th Percentile £406 £417 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £529 £575 £538
90th Percentile £575 £634 £618
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile £16.14 £34.10 £59.49
25th Percentile £16.84 - £60.17
Median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £62.46
Median % change year-on-year -57.39% -34.46% +14.61%
75th Percentile £39.96 - £67.11
90th Percentile £62.00 - £68.09
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Glasgow - 4 £500 - 11
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) PyCharm
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Distribution
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform