Visual Studio Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 246 329
Rank change year-on-year -10 +83 -20
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 48 99 149
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.24% 5.34% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 82 106
10th Percentile £369 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% +1.90% +9.38%
75th Percentile £596 £567 £600
90th Percentile £720 £668 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £535 £514
% change year-on-year -15.89% +4.19% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 15
10th Percentile £62.75 - £41.60
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Visual Studio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio.

Visual Studio daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Visual Studio daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio.

Visual Studio hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
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 18 (37.50%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.08%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) AWS
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.08%) Figma
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.08%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (2.08%) Google Sheets
7 1 (2.08%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Matillion
7 1 (2.08%) PaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
7 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Ethernet
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) Power BI
3 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (6.25%) Big Data
5 3 (6.25%) Redis
5 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.17%) Dremio
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.08%) Metadata
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (50.00%) JIRA
2 9 (18.75%) Git
3 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (8.33%) Eclipse
4 4 (8.33%) NUnit
5 3 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.17%) MSTest
6 2 (4.17%) Postman
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.08%) git-flow
7 1 (2.08%) gulp
7 1 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (2.08%) ReSharper
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 24 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Manufacturing
4 8 (16.67%) Banking
5 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (10.42%) Military
7 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (6.25%) French Language
9 2 (4.17%) Marketing
10 1 (2.08%) Back Office
10 1 (2.08%) Electronics
10 1 (2.08%) Front Office
10 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (62.50%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Delphi Developer
3 8 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Agile C# Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Agile Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Developer
7 2 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) .NET
2 7 (14.58%) REST
3 6 (12.50%) Kafka
3 6 (12.50%) Web Services
4 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.42%) CSS
4 5 (10.42%) HTML
4 5 (10.42%) React
5 4 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (8.33%) Node.js
6 3 (6.25%) Gherkin
6 3 (6.25%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) WCF
7 2 (4.17%) Compass CSS Framework
7 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.17%) Redux
7 2 (4.17%) RxJS
7 2 (4.17%) Sass
7 2 (4.17%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.25%) Derivative
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Equities
4 1 (2.08%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Agile
2 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (29.17%) DevOps
4 14 (29.17%) Functional Testing
4 14 (29.17%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (22.92%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (16.67%) Scrum
8 7 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (12.50%) Change Management
9 6 (12.50%) SDLC
9 6 (12.50%) TDD
10 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (10.42%) Unit Testing
11 4 (8.33%) Design Patterns
11 4 (8.33%) Digital Twin
11 4 (8.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) C#
2 27 (56.25%) SQL
3 15 (31.25%) PL/SQL
4 14 (29.17%) Delphi
5 7 (14.58%) C++
5 7 (14.58%) Python
6 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 4 (8.33%) Java
7 4 (8.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) CITP
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) EMIR
4 1 (2.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) MIIS
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (39.58%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) New Relic
3 2 (4.17%) Solace
4 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.08%) CQG
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.08%) Mercator
4 1 (2.08%) NEC
4 1 (2.08%) Reuters
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Wind River