Visual Studio Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 185 186
Rank change year-on-year -53 +1 -50
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 46 36 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.69% 0.76% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.37% 5.25% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 39 30 42
10th Percentile £32,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -25.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,313 £67,188
90th Percentile - £75,271 £81,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,052 686 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.67% 14.48% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 298 391 601
10th Percentile £37,125 £37,885 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +3.79% +21.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £80,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in Scotland.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -83 24 £61,500 -5.38% 3
Aberdeen -13 7 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Fife -4 6 - -
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 -
Edinburgh +27 2 £60,000 -9.91% 4
Dundee -13 1 £32,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £32,500 - 1
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Sage 200
1 1 (2.17%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (30.43%) Modbus
1 14 (30.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) JIRA
2 13 (28.26%) GitLab
3 10 (21.74%) Git
4 6 (13.04%) Bitbucket
4 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
4 6 (13.04%) MSTest
5 4 (8.70%) Selenium
5 4 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (8.70%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.17%) MSBuild
6 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 18 (39.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Aviation
4 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Electronics
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Software Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
2 13 (28.26%) Senior Software Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) Architect
3 12 (26.09%) Systems Architect
4 10 (21.74%) Test Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Applications Developer
7 4 (8.70%) WPF Developer
8 1 (2.17%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Firmware Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Integration Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Lead
8 1 (2.17%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Lead Software Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (73.91%) .NET
2 26 (56.52%) .NET Framework
3 23 (50.00%) CSS
4 22 (47.83%) HTML
5 17 (36.96%) WPF
6 13 (28.26%) WinForms
7 4 (8.70%) DOM
8 3 (6.52%) HTML5
9 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
10 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
10 1 (2.17%) jQuery
10 1 (2.17%) Next.js
10 1 (2.17%) React Native
10 1 (2.17%) REST
10 1 (2.17%) Sass
10 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) IoT
2 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.17%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Software Engineering
2 25 (54.35%) Agile
3 13 (28.26%) Multithreading
4 12 (26.09%) DevOps
4 12 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 12 (26.09%) Microservices
4 12 (26.09%) OO
4 12 (26.09%) SOA
4 12 (26.09%) Test Automation
5 10 (21.74%) Regression Testing
6 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (13.04%) Energy Management
7 6 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (13.04%) Scrum
7 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 6 (13.04%) Test Management
7 6 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) C#
2 29 (63.04%) SQL
3 25 (54.35%) C++
4 19 (41.30%) Java
5 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.87%) C
7 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) ISEB
2 4 (8.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.17%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Sage
2 1 (2.17%) SAP
2 1 (2.17%) Sitecore