Visual Studio Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 363 473
Rank change year-on-year -80 +110 -101
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 91 232 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.54% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.04% 4.37% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 156 152
10th Percentile £362 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £443 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +2.88% -0.95%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £600
90th Percentile £750 £661 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £534 £475
% change year-on-year -15.77% +12.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 13
10th Percentile £61.25 £46.25 £48.40
25th Percentile - £57.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -17.45%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £64.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -17.45%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,468 5,305 7,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,983 3,521 5,507
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £650
90th Percentile £699 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 251 233
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £45.24
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.59 £75.00 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Top 14 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England -73 73 £495 -7.48% 340
UK excluding London -37 57 £450 -15.77% 219
Work from Home -2 39 £508 -4.78% 152
London -6 21 £690 +25.45% 123
North of England +15 13 £390 -4.29% 54
East of England +12 13 £500 -9.09% 19
South East +32 12 £425 -29.17% 55
Scotland +8 9 £500 +5.26% 18
Yorkshire +6 7 £389 +11.14% 21
North West +16 6 £500 +4.99% 29
Midlands -24 6 £400 -25.23% 42
South West +24 4 £356 -38.58% 31
West Midlands -31 3 £450 -15.89% 24
East Midlands - 2 £385 - 18

Visual Studio
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 15 (16.48%) Confluence
2 7 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (1.10%) CICS
4 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.20%) Maximo
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Eikon
2 1 (1.10%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.10%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) Azure
2 23 (25.27%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (19.78%) GitHub
4 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 11 (12.09%) AWS
6 7 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.69%) SaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.10%) dbt
10 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 12 (13.19%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) Power BI
3 6 (6.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.30%) Big Data
6 3 (3.30%) Dremio
6 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.20%) Metadata
7 2 (2.20%) MySQL
8 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.10%) DB2
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.10%) MS Access
8 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.10%) Redis
8 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (34.07%) JIRA
2 20 (21.98%) Git
3 14 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 14 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 13 (14.29%) Eclipse
5 10 (10.99%) Bitbucket
6 8 (8.79%) Cucumber
6 8 (8.79%) IntelliJ
6 8 (8.79%) PyCharm
7 5 (5.49%) NUnit
7 5 (5.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.40%) MSTest
8 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (3.30%) GitLab
9 3 (3.30%) Vagrant
10 2 (2.20%) Moq
10 2 (2.20%) Subversion
10 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.10%) Toad
General
1 37 (40.66%) Finance
2 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Military
3 14 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.59%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Law
8 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.20%) Back Office
9 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.20%) Front Office
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (45.05%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) Software Engineer
3 14 (15.38%) C# Software Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) C# Developer
5 8 (8.79%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Analyst
6 7 (7.69%) Delphi Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Senior
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Agile C# Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Analyst Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.47%) .NET
2 19 (20.88%) Web Services
3 12 (13.19%) Node.js
4 11 (12.09%) REST
5 9 (9.89%) CSS
6 8 (8.79%) Gherkin
6 8 (8.79%) HTML
7 7 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 7 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 7 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 7 (7.69%) WCF
8 6 (6.59%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.59%) ADO
8 6 (6.59%) JSON
8 6 (6.59%) Kafka
8 6 (6.59%) React
9 5 (5.49%) Entity Framework
9 5 (5.49%) RESTful
9 5 (5.49%) WPF
10 4 (4.40%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.40%) Derivative
4 4 (4.40%) Equities
4 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.30%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (3.30%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.10%) DataPower
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 32 (35.16%) Windows
2 21 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (63.74%) Agile
2 38 (41.76%) CI/CD
3 35 (38.46%) DevOps
4 21 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 21 (23.08%) SDLC
4 21 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 19 (20.88%) Continuous Delivery
6 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.68%) Scrum
6 17 (18.68%) Unit Testing
7 15 (16.48%) Test Automation
8 14 (15.38%) TDD
9 13 (14.29%) Digital Twin
9 13 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
10 12 (13.19%) Validation
11 11 (12.09%) Verification and Validation
11 11 (12.09%) Visualisation
12 10 (10.99%) Functional Testing
13 9 (9.89%) Design Patterns
13 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 59 (64.84%) C#
2 27 (29.67%) SQL
3 25 (27.47%) JavaScript
4 24 (26.37%) Python
5 20 (21.98%) C++
6 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 13 (14.29%) Java
8 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
9 9 (9.89%) PL/SQL
9 9 (9.89%) T-SQL
10 7 (7.69%) Delphi
11 4 (4.40%) Ruby
12 2 (2.20%) Korn
12 2 (2.20%) VB
13 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
13 1 (1.10%) VB6
13 1 (1.10%) VBA
13 1 (1.10%) XAML
13 1 (1.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.20%) PhD
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) CITP
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) EMIR
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) MiFID
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) VirtualBox
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (17.58%) Ansible
2 9 (9.89%) Terraform
3 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.30%) Puppet
5 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.10%) CA Endevor
6 1 (1.10%) MIIS
Vendors
1 39 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.58%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.30%) Databricks
4 3 (3.30%) IBM
4 3 (3.30%) Splunk
5 2 (2.20%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.20%) CQG
5 2 (2.20%) Nintex
5 2 (2.20%) Reuters
5 2 (2.20%) Solace
6 1 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (1.10%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.10%) NEC
6 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software