Visual Studio Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 116 125
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 1 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.067% 0.71% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 6.76% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 16
10th Percentile - £305 £320
25th Percentile - £472 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £556 £466
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +19.30% +8.12%
75th Percentile - £619 £600
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -29.17% +23.08% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -8.41%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 164 281 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.93% 10.48% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 168 203
10th Percentile £325 £321 £363
25th Percentile £422 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £638
90th Percentile £613 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 3
10th Percentile £34.43 - £23.25
25th Percentile £48.75 £46.25 £33.75
Median hourly rate £63.00 £61.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +17.61% -18.52%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.80 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Berkshire +13 1 £517 -7.06% 14
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft