Visual Studio Team System Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Visual Studio Team System skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio Team System over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 451 545
Rank change year-on-year +112 +94 -130
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 9 22 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.058% 0.083% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.48% 0.54% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 42
10th Percentile £378 £408 £330
25th Percentile £400 £416 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £500 £586 £538
90th Percentile £523 £705 £607
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -21.74% +19.79% -8.92%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Visual Studio Team System is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,866 4,054 8,424
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.00% 15.39% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 2,904 6,110
10th Percentile £360 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +7.31%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 120 105
10th Percentile £26.24 £44.41 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £53.94 £39.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile - £78.88 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +17.14% +16.67%

Visual Studio Team System
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio Team System as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio Team System trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio Team System.

Visual Studio Team System daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Team System
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Visual Studio Team System over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Visual Studio Team System daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Team System
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Azure API Management
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Batch
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Storage
4 4 (44.44%) Power Automate
4 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 4 (44.44%) PowerApps
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (44.44%) OLTP
3 3 (33.33%) Big Data
3 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Test Lead
4 1 (11.11%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) JSON
1 5 (55.56%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) ARM Templates
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) BYOD
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Microservices
4 5 (55.56%) Migration
5 4 (44.44%) API Management
5 4 (44.44%) BDD
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Logistics
5 4 (44.44%) TDD
6 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Kanban
6 3 (33.33%) OWASP
6 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
6 3 (33.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft