Visual Studio Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 151 133
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 -13
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 11 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.34% 0.46% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.42% 3.56% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £391 £453 £394
25th Percentile £463 £456 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £593 £506 £491
90th Percentile £638 £518 £523
England median daily rate £535 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year - +2.20% -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.08
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.33% +35.72%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 322 477 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.08% 12.95% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 324 417
10th Percentile £425 £366 £370
25th Percentile £475 £420 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £653 £619 £589
90th Percentile £700 £700 £640
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 62 25
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.20 £42.00
25th Percentile £57.33 £57.25 £49.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% - +23.00%
75th Percentile £72.24 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.88 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.97% +21.46% +6.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 24 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
Bristol +11 6 £585 +23.16% 7
Wiltshire +3 3 £575 - 1
Somerset +2 1 £600 +33.33% 1
Dorset - 1 £325 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) Postman
2 4 (36.36%) NUnit
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (18.18%) Marketing
1 2 (18.18%) Military
1 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Test Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
2 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
3 3 (27.27%) Playwright
4 2 (18.18%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 1 (9.09%) jQuery
5 1 (9.09%) JSON
5 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Waterfall
4 4 (36.36%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (36.36%) Kanban
4 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Load Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 3 (27.27%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Pardot
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Xamarin