Visual Studio Team System Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Visual Studio Team System skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio Team System 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 330 440 556
Rank change year-on-year +110 +116 -99
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 11 17 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.075% 0.071% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 0.50% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 32
10th Percentile £595 £398 £401
25th Percentile £611 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £488 £478
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% +2.09% +7.61%
75th Percentile £649 £627 £542
90th Percentile £650 £715 £650
UK median daily rate £623 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +15.91% +13.16% -9.52%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Visual Studio Team System falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,761 3,420 8,077
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.93% 14.32% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 2,472 5,814
10th Percentile £360 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% - +8.59%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 95 103
10th Percentile £23.43 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +14.13%
75th Percentile £79.31 £70.64 £65.54
90th Percentile £90.00 £87.92 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

Visual Studio Team System
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Visual Studio Team System trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Team System
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 Team System.

Visual Studio Team System daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio Team System
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 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
1 9 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Azure API Management
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Batch
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Functions
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Storage
2 4 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (36.36%) Power Automate
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) PowerApps
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (36.36%) OLTP
3 3 (27.27%) Big Data
3 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
4 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Applications Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
6 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Server Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
3 4 (36.36%) ARM Templates
3 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
3 4 (36.36%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) JSON
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) CRM
4 4 (36.36%) API Management
4 4 (36.36%) BDD
4 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (36.36%) MVC
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Use Case
4 4 (36.36%) User Stories
5 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
3 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
4 3 (27.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft