Visual Studio Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Visual Studio
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 165 170
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 -38
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 11 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.46% 0.27% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.62% 1.91% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 22
10th Percentile £417 £480 £420
25th Percentile £475 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £510 £570
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% -10.53% -6.94%
75th Percentile £573 £520 £700
90th Percentile £638 £541 £724
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 304 524 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.70% 14.20% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 349 751
10th Percentile £396 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £498 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +7.91%
75th Percentile £665 £738 £712
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.38 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £36.44 £39.06 £66.25
Median hourly rate £40.75 £43.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -39.66% +166.06%
75th Percentile £45.94 £49.06 £78.75
90th Percentile £48.53 £51.88 -
London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +57.30% -24.58%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Central London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in Central London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in Central London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in Central London

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
City of London +42 11 £565 +10.78% 1
Visual Studio
London

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) git-flow
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (27.27%) jQuery
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 2 (18.18%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) ebXML
3 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
5 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
5 3 (27.27%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) PingFederate
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Proofpoint
2 3 (27.27%) Symantec