Visual Studio Contracts in Somerset

Microsoft Visual Studio
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 0.49% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.69% 3.70% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £585 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +17.00% +11.11% -

All Development Application Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 13 27 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 6.37% 13.17% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 20
10th Percentile £418 £310 £328
25th Percentile £425 £343 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £448
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +14.53% +19.33%
75th Percentile £488 £635 £518
90th Percentile £605 £729 £610
South West median daily rate £539 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +2.62% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £50.00 £41.43
Median hourly rate - £53.13 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year - +20.88% -17.46%
75th Percentile - £68.41 £46.48
90th Percentile - £76.84 -
South West median hourly rate £67.38 £61.50 £55.84
% change year-on-year +9.55% +10.14% +14.54%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Somerset

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Somerset

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Somerset

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Taunton - 1 £600 -
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript