Visual Studio Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 169 178
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 +30
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 19 36 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.65% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.32% 6.64% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 32
10th Percentile £408 £435 £321
25th Percentile - £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +10.58% +26.06%
75th Percentile £464 £619 £575
90th Percentile £496 - £600
England median daily rate £438 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -18.22% +2.88% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £50.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -15.53%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £55.63
90th Percentile - - £56.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -9.95%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Hampshire - 16 £425 - 6
Surrey +11 2 - - 5
Thames Valley +21 1 £517 +0.88% 27
Berkshire +14 1 £517 +0.88% 16
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 16 (84.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Stack
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (84.21%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.53%) Moq
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (84.21%) Finance
2 10 (52.63%) Manufacturing
2 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (84.21%) Delphi Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.26%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) YAML
3 1 (5.26%) ADO
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Functional Testing
1 16 (84.21%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (84.21%) Root Cause Analysis
2 10 (52.63%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Operational Stability
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) OO
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) OWASP
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) SOLID
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
6 2 (10.53%) UX Design
6 2 (10.53%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (84.21%) Delphi
2 16 (84.21%) PL/SQL
2 16 (84.21%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (84.21%) Oracle