Visual Studio Coded UI Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Studio Coded UI Test
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Visual Studio Coded UI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 524 -
Rank change year-on-year -91 - -
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Coded UI 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.007% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.035% 0.048% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £349 -
25th Percentile £350 £361 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £405 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - -
75th Percentile £351 £451 -
90th Percentile - £466 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Visual Studio Coded UI 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,784 4,131 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.48% 14.02% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,852 2,777 3,452
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 67 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.92 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.68 £51.53 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £76.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

Visual Studio Coded UI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Visual Studio Coded UI job vacancy trend in the UK

Visual Studio Coded UI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio Coded UI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio Coded UI

Visual Studio Coded UI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio Coded UI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio Coded UI

Visual Studio Coded UI
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Coded UI within the UK over the 6 months to 22 April 2026. 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
England -115 2 £351 -13.46% 1
London -48 1 £351 -13.46%
North West - 1 - - 1
Work from Home - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

Visual Studio Coded UI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Rational Robot
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSD
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Test-First Development
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) HP APS
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle