Visual Studio Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 106 120
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 12 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.75% 0.72% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.19% 7.10% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 4
10th Percentile £304 £463 £391
25th Percentile £422 £513 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £600 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% +39.13% +1.47%
75th Percentile £670 £631 £453
90th Percentile £671 £638 -
South East median daily rate £475 £560 £463
% change year-on-year -15.18% +21.08% +19.35%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 231 183 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.43% 10.18% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 132 164
10th Percentile £350 £350 £346
25th Percentile £390 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% +2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £578
90th Percentile £670 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £530 £536
% change year-on-year -10.38% -1.17% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.87 - £60.75
Median hourly rate £58.49 - £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.15%
75th Percentile £78.00 - £62.25
90th Percentile £94.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.91% -11.54% +14.04%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Berkshire

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Reading 0 10 £635 +5.83% 3
Windsor - 2 - -
Maidenhead +2 1 £255 -46.32%
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (58.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 6 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (50.00%) Serverless
5 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (8.33%) dbt
7 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (8.33%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) PowerPivot
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (16.67%) MSBuild
4 2 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 6 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Database Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) AngularJS
2 7 (58.33%) Node.js
3 4 (33.33%) ADO
4 3 (25.00%) .NET
4 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (25.00%) YAML
5 2 (16.67%) JSON
5 2 (16.67%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (8.33%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (16.67%) Wiki
2 1 (8.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) ETL
3 7 (58.33%) SDLC
4 6 (50.00%) ITIL
4 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Microservices
6 4 (33.33%) API Management
6 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 4 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
7 3 (25.00%) MVC
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) System Testing
8 2 (16.67%) B2C
8 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (58.33%) PHP
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Python
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SendGrid
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce