Visual Studio Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Visual Studio
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 109 124 152
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 -21
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 21 21 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.80% 0.73% 0.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.08% 6.62% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 10
10th Percentile £321 £320 £345
25th Percentile £459 £363 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% +9.20% -6.45%
75th Percentile £619 £590 £507
90th Percentile - £600 £528
South East median daily rate £600 £520 £431
% change year-on-year +15.38% +20.58% +9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £57.83
% change year-on-year -9.52% -9.21% +5.14%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 260 317 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.86% 11.08% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 212 263
10th Percentile £307 £363 £350
25th Percentile £405 £430 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £567
90th Percentile £688 £723 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £546 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% +9.20% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile - £23.25 £55.33
25th Percentile £46.25 £33.75 £58.81
Median hourly rate £56.75 £52.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -18.52% +28.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.88 £67.58
90th Percentile - £66.75 £67.98
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £56.47 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.11% -5.88% +6.19%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the Thames Valley

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -7 17 £531 -3.41%
Buckinghamshire +30 4 - - 7
Visual Studio
South East

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Jadu
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Azure API Management
2 6 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) IaaS
4 3 (14.29%) PaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) RS-232
2 3 (14.29%) Network Security
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
3 2 (9.52%) PowerPivot
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Subversion
3 1 (4.76%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
3 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.76%) Xcode
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Software Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (14.29%) Web Services
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.52%) JSON
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) XML
5 1 (4.76%) HTML
5 1 (4.76%) LAMP
5 1 (4.76%) OAuth
5 1 (4.76%) OpenID
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) Symfony
5 1 (4.76%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
1 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Data Acquisition
4 3 (14.29%) Affinity Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) API Management
4 3 (14.29%) Application Security
4 3 (14.29%) Break/Fix
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) Key Management
4 3 (14.29%) Microservices
4 3 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) C#
2 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 4 (19.05%) C
4 4 (19.05%) PHP
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
5 3 (14.29%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
1 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle