Visual Studio Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Visual Studio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 183 207
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -55
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 6 19 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.11% 2.84% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 30
10th Percentile £254 - £363
25th Percentile £350 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +1.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £511 £488 £500
90th Percentile £527 £533 £501
England median daily rate £538 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +5.49% -2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - £56.87
25th Percentile £47.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £49.00 £52.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -25.53% -
75th Percentile £51.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -17.45% +33.89%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Visual Studio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 541 669 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.17% 12.29% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 501 814
10th Percentile £372 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £641 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 28
10th Percentile £37.55 £37.80 £38.68
25th Percentile £43.80 £38.70 £52.34
Median hourly rate £46.84 £52.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% -25.53% +133.33%
75th Percentile £65.94 £56.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.09 £56.38 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +13 3 £516 +37.67% 14
Yorkshire +7 3 £350 -26.32% 4
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Kentico
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Contentful
2 1 (16.67%) Contentstack
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (16.67%) QlikView
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Mercurial
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Avionics
2 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Backlog
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Brio
2 1 (16.67%) Intel