Visual Studio Team System Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Visual Studio Team System skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio Team System over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 583 636
Rank change year-on-year +68 +53 +34
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 4 17 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.039% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.098% 0.33% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 37
10th Percentile £286 £378 £409
25th Percentile £341 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -21.74% +19.79%
75th Percentile £444 £500 £613
90th Percentile - £523 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Visual Studio Team System 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Visual Studio Team System
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visual Studio Team System as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio Team System in the UK

Visual Studio Team System
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Team System.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio Team System in the UK

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio Team System over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio Team System in the UK

Visual Studio Team System
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio Team System.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio Team System in the UK

Visual Studio Team System
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio Team System within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +50 4 £438 -2.78% 6
London +23 3 £438 -2.78% 3
UK excluding London +54 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Visual Studio Team System
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Billing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Workday