Visual Studio Contracts in London

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 389 341
Rank change year-on-year +74 -48 -37
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 75 104 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.40% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.25% 2.50% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 85 224
10th Percentile £375 £415 £413
25th Percentile £427 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £673 £750 £750
90th Percentile £815 - £825
England median daily rate £536 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -0.48% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.28
25th Percentile - - £65.69
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.83% -
75th Percentile - - £78.19
90th Percentile - - £81.83
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -17.45% +41.33%

All Development Application Skills
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 London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,309 4,159 7,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.23% 16.07% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,997 5,657
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.33% +13.90%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 72
10th Percentile £23.50 £45.15 £38.49
25th Percentile £25.99 £56.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £70.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.86% +57.30% -31.54%
75th Percentile £70.19 £82.50 £62.81
90th Percentile £71.56 £90.00 £79.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in London

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +40 11 £565 +10.78% 4
East London -5 1 £435 -13.00% 1
West London - 1 £530 -
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) CMS
2 2 (2.67%) IIS
2 2 (2.67%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.33%) Jadu
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Endur
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Relativity
2 1 (1.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 47 (62.67%) Azure
2 34 (45.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (14.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.67%) Azure Functions
5 8 (10.67%) Serverless
6 7 (9.33%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (8.00%) SaaS
8 5 (6.67%) AWS
8 5 (6.67%) PaaS
8 5 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (5.33%) GitHub
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (50.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.67%) Power BI
3 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.67%) Tableau
6 1 (1.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.33%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (26.67%) SpecFlow
2 18 (24.00%) Selenium
3 17 (22.67%) WebDriver
4 13 (17.33%) Git
5 6 (8.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (6.67%) MSI
6 5 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (6.67%) WiX
7 4 (5.33%) Appium
7 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.33%) JIRA
7 4 (5.33%) LoadRunner
7 4 (5.33%) Moq
7 4 (5.33%) Postman
7 4 (5.33%) Rational Performance Tester
8 3 (4.00%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.67%) FitNesse
9 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.33%) Finance
3 14 (18.67%) Banking
4 9 (12.00%) Back Office
5 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.67%) Investment Banking
6 7 (9.33%) Front Office
6 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.33%) Legal
8 3 (4.00%) Marketing
9 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Electronics
9 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (36.00%) Developer
2 22 (29.33%) Analyst
3 20 (26.67%) Senior
4 16 (21.33%) Senior Analyst
4 16 (21.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 16 (21.33%) Test Analyst
5 11 (14.67%) C# Developer
6 9 (12.00%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.33%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Architect
9 5 (6.67%) Qualitative Analyst
9 5 (6.67%) Quantitative Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) Azure Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Full Stack Developer
11 3 (4.00%) .NET Applications Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Applications Support
11 3 (4.00%) C# Application Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (61.33%) .NET
2 22 (29.33%) XML
3 21 (28.00%) .NET Framework
4 20 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 14 (18.67%) Entity Framework
5 14 (18.67%) REST
6 10 (13.33%) JSON
7 7 (9.33%) .NET Core
7 7 (9.33%) LINQ
8 6 (8.00%) React
9 5 (6.67%) ARM Templates
9 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET
9 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (6.67%) NHibernate
9 5 (6.67%) RESTful
9 5 (6.67%) XSLT
10 4 (5.33%) HTML
10 4 (5.33%) jQuery
10 4 (5.33%) SOAP
11 3 (4.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Derivative
2 6 (8.00%) Client/Server
2 6 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (8.00%) Equities
2 6 (8.00%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Web 2.0
4 4 (5.33%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 4 (5.33%) Reinsurance
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.67%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.67%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.67%) NHS
6 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.33%) PDA
7 1 (1.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) Agile
2 38 (50.67%) DevOps
3 26 (34.67%) Test Automation
4 25 (33.33%) Scrum
5 24 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 22 (29.33%) Performance Testing
7 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.33%) TDD
9 14 (18.67%) B2C
10 13 (17.33%) Migration
11 12 (16.00%) Manual Testing
11 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
12 11 (14.67%) BDD
12 11 (14.67%) Software Testing
13 10 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (12.00%) Non-Functional Testing
14 9 (12.00%) Test Strategy
15 8 (10.67%) Analytics
15 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (10.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.00%) C#
2 36 (48.00%) SQL
3 21 (28.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (13.33%) Python
5 9 (12.00%) T-SQL
6 8 (10.67%) C++
6 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.00%) VBA
8 4 (5.33%) Java
8 4 (5.33%) Perl
8 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.67%) Bicep
10 2 (2.67%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.33%) PHP
11 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) PingFederate
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (42.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) HP
2 4 (5.33%) IBM
3 3 (4.00%) Proofpoint
3 3 (4.00%) Symantec
4 2 (2.67%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.67%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) Facebook
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.33%) Snow
5 1 (1.33%) Twitter