Visual Studio Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 51 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 2 26
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.25% 0.44% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.52% 2.78% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £550
25th Percentile - - £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £575
75th Percentile - - £672
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £365 £475 £553
% change year-on-year -23.16% -14.03% +17.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.59
25th Percentile - - £47.07
Median hourly rate - - £51.20
75th Percentile - - £53.67
90th Percentile - - £54.17
South East median hourly rate - - £48.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.62%

All Development Application Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 66 72 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 16.42% 15.72% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 116
10th Percentile £163 £203 £376
25th Percentile £204 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £488 £525 £626
90th Percentile £550 - £675
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.19% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £48.38
25th Percentile - - £53.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £71.90
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visual Studio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Surrey

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Visual Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Visual Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Staines +2 1 - -
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate