Visual Studio Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 266 315
Rank change year-on-year -23 +49 -44
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 54 134 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.99% 5.97% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 86 75
10th Percentile £351 £339 £322
25th Percentile £385 £466 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% +12.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £569 £563
90th Percentile £525 £619 £600
UK median daily rate £460 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -14.11% +2.88% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 12
10th Percentile £63.13 - £50.13
25th Percentile - £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -17.45%
75th Percentile - - £59.38
90th Percentile £65.38 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year - +20.93% -15.49%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,806 2,245 3,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.86% 10.83% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,452 2,126
10th Percentile £325 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £656 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 190 165
10th Percentile £21.27 £40.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £78.12 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +31 19 £425 -29.17% 49
North of England +25 14 £389 -14.97% 32
Yorkshire +18 7 £389 +11.14% 6
East of England +13 7 £500 -9.09% 13
North West +12 6 £500 -2.91% 24
Midlands -31 6 £385 -28.04% 27
South West +31 4 £356 -39.10% 13
Scotland +4 4 £500 +5.26% 12
West Midlands -35 2 - - 17
East Midlands - 2 £385 - 10
North East - 1 £370 - 3
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (31.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Maximo
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 6 (11.11%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) SaaS
6 3 (5.56%) AWS
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.85%) dbt
8 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
2 6 (11.11%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) Power BI
3 5 (9.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.56%) Dremio
5 2 (3.70%) MySQL
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.85%) Metadata
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.85%) MS Access
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) JIRA
2 9 (16.67%) Git
3 7 (12.96%) Cucumber
3 7 (12.96%) Eclipse
3 7 (12.96%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.56%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.56%) PyCharm
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (5.56%) Vagrant
6 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.70%) Moq
6 2 (3.70%) Subversion
7 1 (1.85%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.85%) Selenium
7 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.85%) Toad
7 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (48.15%) Finance
2 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Manufacturing
4 8 (14.81%) Military
4 8 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.70%) Law
8 1 (1.85%) Banking
8 1 (1.85%) French Language
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Delphi Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Tester
7 2 (3.70%) Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) .NET
2 7 (12.96%) Gherkin
3 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 6 (11.11%) CSS
3 6 (11.11%) Node.js
3 6 (11.11%) Web Services
4 5 (9.26%) HTML
5 4 (7.41%) Blazor
6 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.56%) JSON
6 3 (5.56%) RESTful
6 3 (5.56%) WPF
6 3 (5.56%) XML
7 2 (3.70%) ADO
7 2 (3.70%) React
7 2 (3.70%) YAML
8 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.85%) ODBC
8 1 (1.85%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.85%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 26 (48.15%) Windows
2 10 (18.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Agile
2 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
4 16 (29.63%) Functional Testing
5 14 (25.93%) DevOps
5 14 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (14.81%) Scrum
8 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
9 7 (12.96%) Digital Twin
9 7 (12.96%) SDLC
9 7 (12.96%) Synthetic Environment
9 7 (12.96%) TDD
10 6 (11.11%) Change Management
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (11.11%) Design Patterns
10 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) C#
2 24 (44.44%) SQL
3 14 (25.93%) Delphi
3 14 (25.93%) PL/SQL
4 13 (24.07%) Python
5 12 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 10 (18.52%) C++
7 7 (12.96%) TypeScript
8 6 (11.11%) T-SQL
9 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
10 3 (5.56%) Java
10 3 (5.56%) Ruby
11 2 (3.70%) VB
12 1 (1.85%) Korn
12 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.85%) VB6
12 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CITP
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Puppet
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (68.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (29.63%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Databricks
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) IBM