Visual Studio Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 455 383
Rank change year-on-year +129 -72 -38
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 239 205 588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.40% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.75% 2.96% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 151 345
10th Percentile £353 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £700
90th Percentile £657 £675 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.55% +11.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 9 34
10th Percentile £51.20 £42.88 £48.63
25th Percentile - £48.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +36.84%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £65.56
90th Percentile - £63.75 £72.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +36.84%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,031 6,915 15,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 13.61% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,255 4,806 10,797
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £725 £750 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 240 242
10th Percentile £27.80 £45.79 £38.04
25th Percentile £50.94 £52.25 £49.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.69 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +7.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £90.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +136 221 £513 -5.09% 70
UK excluding London +75 141 £513 +2.55% 53
London +74 84 £490 -12.50% 13
Work from Home +92 75 £513 +2.50% 33
East of England +43 41 £481 +16.48% 3
South East +14 37 £600 +9.09% 15
South West +33 25 £580 +28.89% 16
Midlands +31 21 £514 -14.33% 8
West Midlands +30 20 £514 -14.33% 5
North of England +22 9 £375 -3.23% 10
North West +28 7 £445 -6.32% 6
Wales +5 5 £210 -55.79% 3
Scotland +33 4 £475 +15.15% 1
Yorkshire +8 2 £275 -19.58% 3
East Midlands +2 1 - - 3

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 9 (3.77%) Confluence
1 9 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.09%) IIS
3 2 (0.84%) CMS
3 2 (0.84%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.84%) Trello
5 1 (0.42%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.42%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 12 (5.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Relativity
2 2 (0.84%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 95 (39.75%) Azure
2 70 (29.29%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (12.55%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (6.28%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (6.28%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.02%) AWS
6 12 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.02%) PowerApps
7 11 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (4.18%) GitHub
8 10 (4.18%) Serverless
9 9 (3.77%) Azure Functions
9 9 (3.77%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.35%) SaaS
11 7 (2.93%) Azure API Management
11 7 (2.93%) PaaS
12 5 (2.09%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.90%) Ethernet
1 38 (15.90%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.26%) Network Security
2 3 (1.26%) VPN
3 2 (0.84%) Link 16
4 1 (0.42%) 4G
4 1 (0.42%) 5G
4 1 (0.42%) Broadband
4 1 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.42%) FTP
4 1 (0.42%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.01%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.79%) Power BI
3 10 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.09%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (2.09%) MySQL
8 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.26%) Big Data
9 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.26%) Tableau
10 2 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.84%) MS Access
10 2 (0.84%) Power Query
10 2 (0.84%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.42%) InterBase
Development Applications
1 47 (19.67%) Git
2 44 (18.41%) Eclipse
3 30 (12.55%) Selenium
4 25 (10.46%) Postman
5 22 (9.21%) SpecFlow
6 20 (8.37%) PVCS
7 17 (7.11%) JIRA
8 16 (6.69%) Jenkins
8 16 (6.69%) WebDriver
9 13 (5.44%) Visual Studio Team System
10 10 (4.18%) Appium
10 10 (4.18%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (3.77%) LoadRunner
11 9 (3.77%) Rational Performance Tester
12 8 (3.35%) NUnit
12 8 (3.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (2.51%) JMeter
14 5 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 86 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.25%) Presentation Skills
3 40 (16.74%) Military
4 27 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 25 (10.46%) Finance
6 23 (9.62%) Back Office
7 19 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.44%) Banking
9 7 (2.93%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.93%) Marketing
10 5 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.09%) Legal
11 4 (1.67%) Front Office
11 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.26%) Aviation
12 3 (1.26%) Electronics
12 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.26%) Welsh Language
13 2 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (35.15%) Developer
2 47 (19.67%) Software Engineer
3 42 (17.57%) Analyst
4 40 (16.74%) C# Software Engineer
5 35 (14.64%) Senior
6 28 (11.72%) C++ Software Engineer
7 24 (10.04%) Test Analyst
8 22 (9.21%) .NET Developer
9 21 (8.79%) Programmer
10 19 (7.95%) C Programmer
11 17 (7.11%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (7.11%) Senior Test Analyst
12 16 (6.69%) C# Developer
13 13 (5.44%) Lead
13 13 (5.44%) Test Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.44%) Test Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Developer
16 7 (2.93%) Senior Microsoft Developer
16 7 (2.93%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (40.59%) .NET
2 48 (20.08%) Web Services
3 44 (18.41%) Node.js
4 30 (12.55%) .NET Framework
5 29 (12.13%) ASP.NET
6 26 (10.88%) HTML
7 24 (10.04%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.95%) REST
9 17 (7.11%) Playwright
9 17 (7.11%) XML
10 16 (6.69%) CSS
11 13 (5.44%) .NET Core
12 10 (4.18%) jQuery
13 9 (3.77%) Entity Framework
13 9 (3.77%) JSON
14 7 (2.93%) GraphQL
14 7 (2.93%) SOAP
14 7 (2.93%) XSLT
15 6 (2.51%) LINQ
15 6 (2.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.60%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.35%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.09%) Equities
4 5 (2.09%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.09%) NHS
5 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.84%) Derivative
7 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.84%) FMCG
7 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.84%) Social Media
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 63 (26.36%) Windows
2 53 (22.18%) Linux
3 5 (2.09%) Android
4 4 (1.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (55.23%) Agile
2 90 (37.66%) DevOps
3 78 (32.64%) CI/CD
4 67 (28.03%) Continuous Integration
5 62 (25.94%) Unit Testing
6 59 (24.69%) Software Engineering
6 59 (24.69%) TDD
7 53 (22.18%) Test Automation
8 45 (18.83%) Continuous Delivery
9 43 (17.99%) Visualisation
10 42 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (17.57%) Synthetic Environment
11 41 (17.15%) Digital Twin
12 37 (15.48%) Validation
13 35 (14.64%) Verification and Validation
14 30 (12.55%) Performance Testing
15 29 (12.13%) Scrum
16 25 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
17 24 (10.04%) MVC
17 24 (10.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 148 (61.92%) C#
2 74 (30.96%) JavaScript
3 70 (29.29%) C++
4 69 (28.87%) SQL
5 32 (13.39%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.21%) PL/SQL
7 21 (8.79%) C
8 19 (7.95%) Python
9 16 (6.69%) VB.NET
10 15 (6.28%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.77%) Java
11 9 (3.77%) TypeScript
12 8 (3.35%) PHP
13 5 (2.09%) VB
13 5 (2.09%) VB6
14 4 (1.67%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.67%) R
14 4 (1.67%) VBA
15 3 (1.26%) Perl
15 3 (1.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 64 (26.78%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.79%) Degree
4 10 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.09%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.26%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) ISEB
7 2 (0.84%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (0.84%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.42%) CITP
8 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.95%) QA
2 13 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.51%) WCAG
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) GxP
4 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (7.11%) Docker
2 16 (6.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (5.86%) Ansible
2 6 (2.51%) SCOM
3 5 (2.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.26%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (1.26%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.26%) SCOrch
5 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.84%) Terraform
7 1 (0.42%) Grafana
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 127 (53.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.44%) Oracle
3 9 (3.77%) HP
3 9 (3.77%) IBM
4 6 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.09%) Infragistics
6 3 (1.26%) Proofpoint
6 3 (1.26%) SAP
6 3 (1.26%) Symantec
6 3 (1.26%) Twitter
6 3 (1.26%) VMware
6 3 (1.26%) xMatters
7 2 (0.84%) Databricks
7 2 (0.84%) Google
7 2 (0.84%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.84%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.42%) Brio
8 1 (0.42%) Coverity
8 1 (0.42%) Intel
8 1 (0.42%) Pardot