Visual Studio Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 182 207
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 -38
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 36 44 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.75% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.73% 5.83% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 30
10th Percentile £435 £321 £354
25th Percentile £494 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +26.06% +0.61%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £506
90th Percentile - £600 £577
England median daily rate £535 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £50.25 £53.83
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.63 £56.95
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -15.53% +38.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.08
% change year-on-year +18.18% -9.95% +35.72%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 535 755 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.68% 12.95% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 492 662
10th Percentile £325 £376 £352
25th Percentile £413 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £600
90th Percentile £675 £698 £673
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 29
10th Percentile £38.65 £35.74 £40.28
25th Percentile £50.75 £50.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.24 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% +2.25% +19.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the South East

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the South East

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the South East

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the South East

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +10 23 £513 +7.89% 11
Berkshire -3 18 £513 -6.82% 2
Surrey +10 8 £613 +17.79% 5
Buckinghamshire +27 5 £388 +21.09% 7
West Sussex +5 3 £538 -2.27% 2
East Sussex +8 2 £450 -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Jadu
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) LabWindows
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (19.44%) Azure API Management
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 6 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.33%) AWS
6 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 3 (8.33%) SaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.56%) IaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.78%) Figma
8 1 (2.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) RS-232
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) NFC
3 1 (2.78%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) PowerPivot
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Git
2 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Subversion
4 2 (5.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.78%) Android Studio
5 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.78%) rollup.js
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
5 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.78%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.78%) TestRail
5 1 (2.78%) Valgrind
5 1 (2.78%) VersionOne
5 1 (2.78%) webpack
5 1 (2.78%) Xcode
General
1 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Software Developer
3 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) React Developer
6 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) .NET
2 13 (36.11%) ASP.NET
3 5 (13.89%) ARM Templates
3 5 (13.89%) JSON
3 5 (13.89%) REST
3 5 (13.89%) XML
4 4 (11.11%) OAuth
4 4 (11.11%) OpenID
4 4 (11.11%) SOAP
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 3 (8.33%) HTML
5 3 (8.33%) React
5 3 (8.33%) Web Services
6 2 (5.56%) CSS
6 2 (5.56%) Redux
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.78%) DOM
7 1 (2.78%) LAMP
7 1 (2.78%) NHibernate
7 1 (2.78%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Smartcard
2 1 (2.78%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (36.11%) Deployment Automation
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) Application Security
5 6 (16.67%) Break/Fix
5 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 6 (16.67%) SOLID
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
6 5 (13.89%) B2C
6 5 (13.89%) OO
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.11%) Data Acquisition
7 4 (11.11%) Migration
8 3 (8.33%) API Management
8 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.33%) Microservices
8 3 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
8 3 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) C#
2 18 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) C
4 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.11%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) Java
6 3 (8.33%) PHP
7 2 (5.56%) Ruby
8 1 (2.78%) C++
8 1 (2.78%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
1 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe
3 1 (2.78%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce