Visual Studio Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 206 205
Rank change year-on-year +62 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 163 62 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.78% 0.88% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.12% 5.87% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 141 45 79
10th Percentile £27,500 £43,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,078 1,056 1,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.78% 15.07% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 832 598 969
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £64,106
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the South West.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Gloucestershire +44 91 £36,000 -28.00% 2
Bristol +37 37 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Devon -2 10 - - 3
Wiltshire -14 10 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Dorset -22 8 - - 3
Somerset +7 7 £53,750 +7.50% 1
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 88 (53.99%) Confluence
2 4 (2.45%) CMS
2 4 (2.45%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.02%) Azure
2 23 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (8.59%) AWS
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) DHCP
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
1 2 (1.23%) Internet
1 2 (1.23%) Multicast
1 2 (1.23%) RS-232
1 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.23%) VoIP
1 2 (1.23%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.61%) 5G
2 1 (0.61%) Intranet
2 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.29%) SQLite
3 3 (1.84%) MySQL
3 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 100 (61.35%) Git
2 91 (55.83%) JIRA
3 88 (53.99%) Bitbucket
4 59 (36.20%) Sourcetree
5 11 (6.75%) Eclipse
6 8 (4.91%) NetBeans
6 8 (4.91%) Subversion
7 6 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.07%) LabVIEW
General
1 88 (53.99%) Games
1 88 (53.99%) Presentation Skills
2 17 (10.43%) Marketing
3 10 (6.13%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.52%) Electronics
4 9 (5.52%) Finance
5 8 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.68%) Legal
7 6 (3.68%) Publishing
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Military
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (72.39%) Developer
2 88 (53.99%) 3D Developer
2 88 (53.99%) Games Developer
2 88 (53.99%) Unity 3D Developer
3 53 (32.52%) Senior
4 39 (23.93%) Senior Developer
5 34 (20.86%) Software Engineer
6 30 (18.40%) Senior Games Developer
7 19 (11.66%) .NET Developer
8 14 (8.59%) Software Developer
9 13 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Lead
11 7 (4.29%) Software Team Leader
11 7 (4.29%) Team Leader
12 6 (3.68%) .NET Software Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Senior .NET Software Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Senior Software Developer
13 3 (1.84%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (53.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 33 (20.25%) HTML
3 32 (19.63%) .NET
4 26 (15.95%) CSS
5 22 (13.50%) AngularJS
6 18 (11.04%) Vue
7 17 (10.43%) ASP.NET
7 17 (10.43%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (10.43%) WPF
8 16 (9.82%) jQuery
8 16 (9.82%) KnockoutJS
9 15 (9.20%) .NET Framework
9 15 (9.20%) React
10 7 (4.29%) Qt
10 7 (4.29%) XML
11 6 (3.68%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 6 (3.68%) XSD
11 6 (3.68%) XSLT
12 5 (3.07%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 88 (53.99%) Virtual Reality
2 10 (6.13%) GNSS
3 6 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.84%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.84%) PMI
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.56%) Windows
2 18 (11.04%) Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Android
4 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.23%) Windows 2000
4 2 (1.23%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.23%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.61%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.61%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (79.14%) Software Engineering
2 109 (66.87%) Scrum
3 106 (65.03%) Design Patterns
4 99 (60.74%) UML
5 88 (53.99%) Use Case
6 86 (52.76%) DevOps
7 32 (19.63%) Agile
8 30 (18.40%) MVC
9 21 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (11.04%) SDLC
11 16 (9.82%) Computer Science
12 15 (9.20%) Secure Coding
12 15 (9.20%) Unit Testing
13 13 (7.98%) Clean Code
14 12 (7.36%) Multithreading
14 12 (7.36%) Requirements Analysis
14 12 (7.36%) Validation
15 11 (6.75%) OO
15 11 (6.75%) OOP
16 10 (6.13%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (79.75%) C#
2 30 (18.40%) C++
3 27 (16.56%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.11%) Python
5 18 (11.04%) SQL
6 17 (10.43%) Bash
7 16 (9.82%) Java
8 12 (7.36%) C
9 11 (6.75%) Perl
10 10 (6.13%) PHP
11 6 (3.68%) TypeScript
12 5 (3.07%) Fortran
12 5 (3.07%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.23%) Embedded C
14 2 (1.23%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (70.55%) Degree
2 98 (60.12%) Security Cleared
3 96 (58.90%) SC Cleared
4 88 (53.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.84%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.23%) MCDST
7 2 (1.23%) MCITP
7 2 (1.23%) MCSA
7 2 (1.23%) MCSE
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 22 (13.50%) QA
3 10 (6.13%) PMO
4 5 (3.07%) ISO 9001
4 5 (3.07%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (1.84%) Firmware
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.23%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 121 (74.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.91%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.29%) SAP
4 2 (1.23%) VMware
5 1 (0.61%) Apple
5 1 (0.61%) Citrix