Visual Studio Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 388 249
Rank change year-on-year +104 -139 -14
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 660 450 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 0.75% 1.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.89% 5.72% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 558 319 726
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,198 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +0.36% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,674 7,867 12,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.41% 13.08% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 4,436 7,547
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,439 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,056 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +32 178 £54,000 -8.09% 27
South West +75 161 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Midlands +10 99 £45,000 -5.26% 30
North of England +55 86 £47,500 -5.00% 16
East of England +41 70 £35,500 -29.00% 4
North West +36 67 £45,625 -8.75% 14
West Midlands +14 60 £46,715 -1.65% 25
Scotland -55 46 £61,500 +40.57% 7
East Midlands +2 39 £41,250 -2.94% 5
Wales +8 14 £58,750 +30.56% 1
Yorkshire +68 12 £50,000 - 2
North East -3 7 £55,000 +29.41%
Northern Ireland +31 6 £42,500 +6.25%
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 103 (15.61%) Confluence
2 19 (2.88%) IIS
3 17 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.52%) CMS
5 7 (1.06%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
7 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.30%) Liferay
8 2 (0.30%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 33 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.42%) Payment Gateway
2 13 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.36%) Shopify
4 5 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.30%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.15%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 208 (31.52%) Azure
2 112 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 43 (6.52%) AWS
5 39 (5.91%) GitHub
6 20 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.42%) SaaS
8 10 (1.52%) PaaS
9 8 (1.21%) Figma
9 8 (1.21%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.06%) Pulumi
11 6 (0.91%) Azure Functions
11 6 (0.91%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.91%) Serverless
12 5 (0.76%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.61%) npm
13 4 (0.61%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.12%) Modbus
3 12 (1.82%) Network Security
4 9 (1.36%) CTI
5 8 (1.21%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.06%) Firewall
7 6 (0.91%) RS-232
8 4 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.61%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.61%) Internet
8 4 (0.61%) RS-485
8 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.45%) NAS
9 3 (0.45%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.30%) DHCP
10 2 (0.30%) HTTP
10 2 (0.30%) Intranet
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (27.88%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 36 (5.45%) Power BI
4 35 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (4.85%) MS Access
6 23 (3.48%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.58%) MySQL
9 15 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.06%) SQLite
12 6 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.61%) Big Data
13 4 (0.61%) Redis
14 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 221 (33.48%) Git
2 129 (19.55%) JIRA
3 101 (15.30%) Bitbucket
4 71 (10.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 60 (9.09%) Sourcetree
6 46 (6.97%) Visual Studio Code
7 45 (6.82%) NUnit
8 34 (5.15%) Selenium
9 25 (3.79%) GitLab
10 23 (3.48%) Subversion
11 21 (3.18%) Postman
12 18 (2.73%) Eclipse
13 14 (2.12%) SoapUI
13 14 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 13 (1.97%) TeamCity
14 13 (1.97%) WebDriver
15 11 (1.67%) Cypress.io
15 11 (1.67%) Jasmine
16 10 (1.52%) Android Studio
16 10 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (17.88%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.79%) Games
3 88 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 73 (11.06%) Finance
5 40 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 32 (4.85%) Electronics
6 32 (4.85%) Marketing
7 31 (4.70%) Retail
8 28 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.88%) Law
11 15 (2.27%) Automotive
12 14 (2.12%) Back Office
13 13 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.82%) Police
14 12 (1.82%) Publishing
15 11 (1.67%) Legal
16 9 (1.36%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 421 (63.79%) Developer
2 150 (22.73%) .NET Developer
3 114 (17.27%) Senior
4 102 (15.45%) Software Engineer
5 99 (15.00%) C# Developer
6 94 (14.24%) Software Developer
7 88 (13.33%) 3D Developer
7 88 (13.33%) Games Developer
7 88 (13.33%) Unity 3D Developer
8 68 (10.30%) Senior Developer
9 66 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
10 61 (9.24%) Lead
11 50 (7.58%) Full Stack Developer
12 44 (6.67%) Architect
13 36 (5.45%) Applications Developer
13 36 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (5.15%) .NET Software Developer
15 33 (5.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
16 30 (4.55%) C# Software Developer
16 30 (4.55%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (62.27%) .NET
2 198 (30.00%) HTML
3 165 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 147 (22.27%) CSS
5 140 (21.21%) ASP.NET
6 88 (13.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 78 (11.82%) XML
8 73 (11.06%) Web Services
9 72 (10.91%) AngularJS
10 71 (10.76%) .NET Core
11 69 (10.45%) JSON
12 66 (10.00%) jQuery
13 57 (8.64%) ASP.NET Web API
13 57 (8.64%) WPF
14 56 (8.48%) HTML5
15 54 (8.18%) RESTful
16 46 (6.97%) React
17 42 (6.36%) Entity Framework
18 41 (6.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 40 (6.06%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.48%) Virtual Reality
2 27 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.73%) IoT
5 16 (2.42%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.42%) Robotics
6 14 (2.12%) FMCG
6 14 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.82%) Digital Media
9 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.52%) GNSS
11 9 (1.36%) EPoS
12 7 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 4 (0.61%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 112 (16.97%) Windows
2 62 (9.39%) Linux
3 22 (3.33%) Android
4 15 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.45%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.45%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.15%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (42.88%) Software Engineering
2 249 (37.73%) Agile
3 226 (34.24%) DevOps
4 141 (21.36%) Scrum
5 128 (19.39%) Design Patterns
6 115 (17.42%) UML
7 110 (16.67%) MVC
8 94 (14.24%) Use Case
9 86 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (11.06%) Unit Testing
11 71 (10.76%) Test Automation
12 67 (10.15%) Web Development
13 66 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
14 56 (8.48%) Multithreading
14 56 (8.48%) Software Testing
15 53 (8.03%) CI/CD
16 52 (7.88%) Continuous Integration
17 49 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
18 46 (6.97%) Computer Science
19 42 (6.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 513 (77.73%) C#
2 282 (42.73%) SQL
3 200 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 115 (17.42%) C++
5 84 (12.73%) C
6 70 (10.61%) Java
7 60 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 51 (7.73%) Python
9 45 (6.82%) VB.NET
10 42 (6.36%) VB
11 35 (5.30%) TypeScript
12 27 (4.09%) PowerShell
13 18 (2.73%) Bash
14 16 (2.42%) Fortran
15 15 (2.27%) Assembly Language
16 14 (2.12%) Perl
17 10 (1.52%) Delphi
17 10 (1.52%) PHP
17 10 (1.52%) VBA
17 10 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 207 (31.36%) Degree
2 138 (20.91%) Security Cleared
3 111 (16.82%) SC Cleared
4 91 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.12%) HNC
7 5 (0.76%) ISEB
7 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.30%) HND
9 2 (0.30%) MCDST
9 2 (0.30%) MCITP
9 2 (0.30%) MCSA
9 2 (0.30%) MCSE
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.21%) QA
2 29 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 18 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.52%) PMO
5 7 (1.06%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.76%) MISRA
6 5 (0.76%) TickIT
7 2 (0.30%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.58%) Docker
2 13 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.91%) Firmware
5 3 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.21%) Ansible
3 7 (1.06%) MIIS
3 7 (1.06%) Terraform
4 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.30%) vRealize
5 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 334 (50.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.88%) SAP
3 17 (2.58%) Oracle
4 16 (2.42%) Xamarin
5 13 (1.97%) Atlassian
5 13 (1.97%) VMware
6 8 (1.21%) DevExpress
6 8 (1.21%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.06%) SYSPRO
8 6 (0.91%) Facebook
8 6 (0.91%) OutSystems
9 5 (0.76%) Renesas
10 4 (0.61%) Adobe
10 4 (0.61%) Databricks
11 3 (0.45%) Google
11 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.45%) Veeam
12 2 (0.30%) Infor
12 2 (0.30%) Pega
12 2 (0.30%) ServiceNow