Visual Studio Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 143 154
Rank change year-on-year +35 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 3 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 4.08% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £522 £414 £464
25th Percentile £536 £438 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £585 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +20.00% +8.33%
75th Percentile £596 £590 £516
90th Percentile £607 £613 £521
England median daily rate £438 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -18.22% +2.88% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -5.66%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -9.95%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 178 343 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.61% 10.72% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 209 320
10th Percentile £354 £425 £374
25th Percentile £450 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +5.37% +1.59%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £619
90th Percentile £695 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 51 55
10th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £50.48
25th Percentile £65.63 £59.32 £56.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +9.35% +10.14%
75th Percentile £80.23 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £80.00 £81.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +13 2 £525 -11.02% 7
Somerset +3 1 £610 +1.67%
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Load Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP