Visual Studio Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 461 366
Rank change year-on-year +105 -95 -26
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 230 230 631
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.41% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.46% 2.85% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 163 400
10th Percentile £375 £370 £363
25th Percentile £463 £419 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £675
90th Percentile £685 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +12.63% +5.56% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 18
10th Percentile - £50.38 £47.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.47 £48.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.52% +37.43%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £65.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £62.88
% change year-on-year +20.93% -14.51% +36.68%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +83 204 £537 +3.27% 116
UK excluding London +59 134 £535 +12.63% 88
Work from Home +77 88 £535 -0.47% 50
London +73 75 £550 +0.92% 33
Midlands +65 50 £535 -1.61% 20
West Midlands +60 50 £535 -6.96% 14
South East 0 33 £600 +15.38% 21
South West +14 18 £585 +17.00% 15
East of England +1 18 £550 +29.41% 4
North of England +11 7 £458 +0.55% 19
Scotland +34 5 £475 +5.56% 9
North West +20 4 £515 +37.33% 13
Yorkshire +11 3 £350 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
Wales +17 1 £210 -35.38% 1

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.30%) Apache
2 3 (1.30%) CMS
2 3 (1.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) IIS
2 3 (1.30%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.87%) Jadu
3 2 (0.87%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.43%) Kentico
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Mingle
3 2 (0.87%) Trello
4 1 (0.43%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) LabWindows
2 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Endur
3 2 (0.87%) Relativity
3 2 (0.87%) Shopify
3 2 (0.87%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.00%) Azure
2 65 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (12.17%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.52%) AWS
4 15 (6.52%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.65%) Azure Functions
5 13 (5.65%) PowerApps
5 13 (5.65%) Serverless
6 12 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (4.78%) SaaS
8 10 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.35%) PaaS
9 9 (3.91%) GitHub
10 7 (3.04%) Azure API Management
11 6 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.61%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.74%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) Ethernet
1 11 (4.78%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.17%) RS-232
3 3 (1.30%) Network Security
3 3 (1.30%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) 2G
5 1 (0.43%) 5G
5 1 (0.43%) FTP
5 1 (0.43%) Link 16
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.26%) Power BI
3 10 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.61%) MySQL
5 6 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.30%) Big Data
8 3 (1.30%) Tableau
9 2 (0.87%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.87%) Power Query
9 2 (0.87%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.43%) MS Access
10 1 (0.43%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 54 (23.48%) PVCS
2 48 (20.87%) Git
3 24 (10.43%) Selenium
4 22 (9.57%) SpecFlow
5 21 (9.13%) Jenkins
6 19 (8.26%) WebDriver
7 14 (6.09%) Postman
8 13 (5.65%) Eclipse
9 12 (5.22%) JIRA
10 11 (4.78%) NUnit
11 10 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (2.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (2.17%) Appium
13 5 (2.17%) MSI
13 5 (2.17%) Subversion
13 5 (2.17%) WiX
14 4 (1.74%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.74%) LoadRunner
14 4 (1.74%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 52 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.91%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.43%) Finance
4 16 (6.96%) Banking
5 14 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.22%) Military
7 9 (3.91%) Back Office
7 9 (3.91%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.04%) Front Office
8 7 (3.04%) Marketing
9 5 (2.17%) Legal
10 3 (1.30%) Electronics
10 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (30.43%) Developer
2 53 (23.04%) Programmer
3 51 (22.17%) C Programmer
4 37 (16.09%) Analyst
5 29 (12.61%) Senior
6 28 (12.17%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) Test Analyst
8 17 (7.39%) C# Developer
9 16 (6.96%) Senior Analyst
9 16 (6.96%) Senior Test Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) .NET Developer
10 14 (6.09%) C# Software Engineer
11 13 (5.65%) Test Automation Engineer
11 13 (5.65%) Test Engineer
12 11 (4.78%) C++ Software Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Azure Developer
14 8 (3.48%) Integration Developer
14 8 (3.48%) Lead
15 7 (3.04%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
15 7 (3.04%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (43.04%) .NET
2 35 (15.22%) .NET Framework
3 31 (13.48%) XML
4 28 (12.17%) AngularJS
5 23 (10.00%) REST
6 21 (9.13%) Web Services
7 19 (8.26%) ASP.NET
7 19 (8.26%) Entity Framework
8 18 (7.83%) JSON
9 13 (5.65%) Node.js
9 13 (5.65%) Playwright
10 12 (5.22%) SOAP
11 11 (4.78%) HTML
12 9 (3.91%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.91%) React
12 9 (3.91%) XSLT
13 8 (3.48%) ARM Templates
13 8 (3.48%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.48%) RESTful
13 8 (3.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.78%) Derivative
2 8 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.04%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (3.04%) Equities
4 6 (2.61%) Client/Server
4 6 (2.61%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.17%) Web 2.0
6 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.74%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.30%) NHS
7 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.30%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.43%) Windows
2 28 (12.17%) Linux
3 6 (2.61%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.17%) Unix
5 3 (1.30%) Android
5 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (39.57%) Agile
2 77 (33.48%) DevOps
3 51 (22.17%) CI/CD
4 48 (20.87%) Test Automation
5 42 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (16.09%) Scrum
6 37 (16.09%) Software Engineering
7 36 (15.65%) TDD
8 29 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (12.61%) Performance Testing
9 23 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (10.00%) Unit Testing
10 20 (8.70%) BDD
10 20 (8.70%) Manual Testing
11 19 (8.26%) Configuration Management
11 19 (8.26%) Software Testing
12 17 (7.39%) B2C
12 17 (7.39%) Migration
12 17 (7.39%) Test Strategy
13 16 (6.96%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 116 (50.43%) C#
2 67 (29.13%) SQL
3 59 (25.65%) C
4 55 (23.91%) PL/SQL
5 40 (17.39%) C++
6 38 (16.52%) PowerShell
7 30 (13.04%) JavaScript
8 23 (10.00%) Python
9 14 (6.09%) Java
10 9 (3.91%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.91%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.17%) PHP
11 5 (2.17%) VB
11 5 (2.17%) VB6
11 5 (2.17%) VBA
12 4 (1.74%) Perl
12 4 (1.74%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.30%) Bicep
13 3 (1.30%) Ruby
14 2 (0.87%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 79 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.48%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.57%) Degree
4 7 (3.04%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.74%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.30%) ISEB
7 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.13%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) GxP
4 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.96%) Active Directory
1 16 (6.96%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (6.09%) Ansible
2 5 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.30%) PingFederate
3 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.87%) Terraform
5 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 79 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.65%) Oracle
3 5 (2.17%) Infragistics
4 4 (1.74%) HP
4 4 (1.74%) IBM
5 3 (1.30%) Proofpoint
5 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.30%) SAP
5 3 (1.30%) Symantec
5 3 (1.30%) VMware
6 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.87%) Databricks
6 2 (0.87%) Google
6 2 (0.87%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.87%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.43%) Brio
7 1 (0.43%) Intel
7 1 (0.43%) Pardot
7 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.43%) Snow