Visual Studio Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 255 342 294
Rank change year-on-year +87 -48 +33
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 87 115 388
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.48% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.94% 3.36% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 83 213
10th Percentile £375 £400 £350
25th Percentile £475 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - +22.09%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £700
90th Percentile £650 £750 £818
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile - £47.20 £51.55
25th Percentile - £55.00 £58.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £63.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -13.52% +39.02%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 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
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 12 June 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 (3.45%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.30%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.15%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) Kentico
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.30%) Shopify
3 1 (1.15%) Relativity
3 1 (1.15%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.38%) Azure
2 28 (32.18%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.05%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.90%) Azure Functions
4 6 (6.90%) Serverless
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) Azure API Management
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.60%) SaaS
7 3 (3.45%) AWS
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.45%) PaaS
7 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.15%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.15%) MQTT
2 1 (1.15%) Network Security
2 1 (1.15%) RS-232
2 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) Power BI
2 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.15%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.15%) QlikView
4 1 (1.15%) Redis
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (35.63%) PVCS
2 14 (16.09%) Git
3 8 (9.20%) SpecFlow
4 7 (8.05%) Selenium
5 6 (6.90%) Postman
5 6 (6.90%) WebDriver
6 5 (5.75%) MSI
6 5 (5.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.75%) WiX
7 4 (4.60%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.45%) NUnit
8 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.30%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.30%) Moq
10 1 (1.15%) git-flow
10 1 (1.15%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Finance
4 4 (4.60%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Front Office
4 4 (4.60%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.45%) Electronics
5 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.45%) Marketing
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Back Office
6 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 30 (34.48%) C Programmer
1 30 (34.48%) Programmer
2 26 (29.89%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Analyst
3 12 (13.79%) Senior
4 10 (11.49%) C# Developer
5 7 (8.05%) .NET Developer
5 7 (8.05%) Integration Developer
5 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Azure Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Qualitative Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Quantitative Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (40.23%) .NET
2 14 (16.09%) .NET Framework
3 11 (12.64%) XML
4 10 (11.49%) AngularJS
4 10 (11.49%) Entity Framework
5 9 (10.34%) ASP.NET
5 9 (10.34%) REST
6 8 (9.20%) HTML
7 6 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (6.90%) JSON
7 6 (6.90%) LINQ
8 5 (5.75%) NHibernate
8 5 (5.75%) Playwright
8 5 (5.75%) XSLT
9 4 (4.60%) ARM Templates
9 4 (4.60%) WPF
10 3 (3.45%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.45%) SOAP
10 3 (3.45%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.75%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.75%) Web 2.0
3 4 (4.60%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.60%) Equities
3 4 (4.60%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Derivative
5 2 (2.30%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Contactless
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Windows
2 5 (5.75%) Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.48%) DevOps
2 19 (21.84%) Agile
3 15 (17.24%) Configuration Management
4 14 (16.09%) CI/CD
4 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
5 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
6 11 (12.64%) Scrum
7 9 (10.34%) Performance Testing
7 9 (10.34%) TDD
7 9 (10.34%) Unit Testing
8 8 (9.20%) Design Patterns
8 8 (9.20%) MVC
9 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (8.05%) SDLC
10 6 (6.90%) API Testing
10 6 (6.90%) B2C
10 6 (6.90%) Load Testing
10 6 (6.90%) Migration
10 6 (6.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.53%) C#
2 31 (35.63%) C
2 31 (35.63%) PL/SQL
3 30 (34.48%) SQL
4 14 (16.09%) C++
5 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.64%) T-SQL
7 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.90%) Java
8 6 (6.90%) Python
9 5 (5.75%) VBA
10 4 (4.60%) Perl
10 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.60%) VB.NET
11 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.30%) Bicep
12 2 (2.30%) VB
12 2 (2.30%) VB6
13 1 (1.15%) C++/CLI
13 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) Degree
3 4 (4.60%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
2 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle
2 3 (3.45%) SAP
3 2 (2.30%) Infragistics
3 2 (2.30%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.15%) Intel
4 1 (1.15%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.15%) VMware