Visual Studio Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Visual Studio
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 41 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.88% - 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.37% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £357 - £413
25th Percentile £366 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 - £430
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.18%
75th Percentile £530 - £449
90th Percentile £613 - £451
Yorkshire median daily rate £389 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +11.14% -26.32% +10.14%

All Development Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 95 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 25.47% 12.91% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 43 57
10th Percentile £385 £393 £437
25th Percentile £431 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £472 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -27.38% +36.84%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in South Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in South Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in South Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in South Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 7 £389 - 3
Visual Studio
Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (85.71%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (42.86%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk