Visual Studio Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 251 323 295
Rank change year-on-year +72 -28 +28
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 96 145 379
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.59% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.36% 3.90% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 103 208
10th Percentile £375 £400 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £632
90th Percentile £671 £750 £761
UK median daily rate £535 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 10
10th Percentile - £38.80 £50.70
25th Percentile - £55.00 £60.54
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.58
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.69% +41.28%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.52% +39.72%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,792 3,722 8,179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.11% 15.10% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 2,671 5,888
10th Percentile £360 £388 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 104 109
10th Percentile £25.99 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Visual Studio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 (3.13%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.08%) CMS
2 2 (2.08%) NServiceBus
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) Kentico
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Shopify
2 1 (1.04%) Relativity
2 1 (1.04%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.67%) Azure
2 31 (32.29%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.38%) Azure Functions
3 9 (9.38%) Serverless
4 8 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.29%) Azure API Management
5 7 (7.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.21%) SaaS
8 4 (4.17%) PaaS
9 3 (3.13%) AWS
9 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.04%) MQTT
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) RS-232
2 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.17%) Power BI
4 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.04%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.04%) QlikView
7 1 (1.04%) Redis
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (32.29%) PVCS
2 14 (14.58%) Git
3 10 (10.42%) SpecFlow
4 8 (8.33%) Selenium
5 7 (7.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (6.25%) Postman
6 6 (6.25%) WebDriver
7 5 (5.21%) MSI
7 5 (5.21%) WiX
8 4 (4.17%) Moq
9 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.13%) NUnit
9 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
11 1 (1.04%) git-flow
11 1 (1.04%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 16 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Finance
4 4 (4.17%) Banking
4 4 (4.17%) Front Office
4 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.13%) Electronics
5 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.13%) Marketing
5 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.08%) Back Office
6 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.04%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) C Programmer
1 30 (31.25%) Developer
1 30 (31.25%) Programmer
2 13 (13.54%) C# Developer
3 12 (12.50%) Analyst
4 9 (9.38%) Integration Developer
4 9 (9.38%) Senior
5 8 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Azure Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.21%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (5.21%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Qualitative Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Quantitative Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (42.71%) .NET
2 14 (14.58%) XML
3 13 (13.54%) .NET Framework
3 13 (13.54%) REST
4 12 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 10 (10.42%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.42%) JSON
6 7 (7.29%) ARM Templates
7 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (6.25%) LINQ
7 6 (6.25%) SOAP
8 5 (5.21%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.21%) HTML
8 5 (5.21%) NHibernate
8 5 (5.21%) Playwright
8 5 (5.21%) XSLT
9 4 (4.17%) OAuth
9 4 (4.17%) WPF
10 3 (3.13%) OpenID
10 3 (3.13%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.21%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.21%) NHS
2 5 (5.21%) Web 2.0
3 4 (4.17%) Derivative
3 4 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.17%) Equities
3 4 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.13%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Contactless
6 1 (1.04%) e-Health
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.04%) LIMS
6 1 (1.04%) PACS
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Unix
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) DevOps
2 22 (22.92%) Agile
3 19 (19.79%) CI/CD
4 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.63%) Configuration Management
6 14 (14.58%) Software Engineering
7 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
8 12 (12.50%) Scrum
9 11 (11.46%) TDD
10 10 (10.42%) OO
10 10 (10.42%) Performance Testing
11 9 (9.38%) B2C
11 9 (9.38%) Migration
11 9 (9.38%) Security Testing
12 8 (8.33%) BDD
12 8 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (8.33%) Design Patterns
12 8 (8.33%) Manual Testing
13 7 (7.29%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (7.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.75%) C#
2 33 (34.38%) SQL
3 31 (32.29%) C
3 31 (32.29%) PL/SQL
4 14 (14.58%) C++
5 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
6 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.38%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.29%) Python
7 7 (7.29%) VBA
8 6 (6.25%) Java
9 4 (4.17%) Perl
9 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.08%) Bicep
11 2 (2.08%) VB
11 2 (2.08%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.08%) VB6
12 1 (1.04%) PHP
12 1 (1.04%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) SC Cleared
1 34 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle
2 3 (3.13%) SAP
3 2 (2.08%) Infragistics
3 2 (2.08%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe
4 1 (1.04%) Intel
4 1 (1.04%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.04%) VMware