Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 350 417 376
Rank change year-on-year +67 -41 -97
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 801 778 1,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.74% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.39% 5.11% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 666 574 1,009
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £63,625 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,125 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +105 709 £50,000 -9.09% 153
UK excluding London +83 650 £50,000 - 118
Work from Home +42 321 £52,500 -7.89% 62
South East +54 173 £54,000 -5.26% 30
South West +81 162 £47,500 -5.00% 20
London +26 123 £60,000 -7.69% 36
Midlands +19 94 £45,000 -2.70% 33
North of England +47 85 £47,500 -5.00% 22
East of England +31 70 £35,500 -29.00% 7
North West +28 66 £45,000 -10.00% 17
West Midlands +18 55 £45,931 -3.30% 26
Scotland -53 46 £61,500 +36.67% 9
East Midlands +4 39 £40,000 -5.88% 7
Wales +14 14 £58,750 +30.56% 1
Yorkshire +73 12 £50,000 - 4
North East -2 7 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Northern Ireland +35 6 £42,500 +6.25%

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 107 (13.36%) Confluence
2 44 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 43 (5.37%) IIS
4 39 (4.87%) CMS
5 12 (1.50%) Apache
6 10 (1.25%) EPiServer
7 8 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.00%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.87%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.62%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.25%) Liferay
11 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Mendix
12 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 34 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.00%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.50%) Trello
5 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
3 14 (1.75%) SDL Web 8
4 10 (1.25%) Shopify
5 5 (0.62%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.25%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.12%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 290 (36.20%) Azure
2 150 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 47 (5.87%) AWS
5 45 (5.62%) GitHub
6 33 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (2.37%) SaaS
9 18 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 14 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 14 (1.75%) NuGet
10 14 (1.75%) PaaS
11 13 (1.62%) Google Analytics
12 12 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.25%) Serverless
14 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.87%) Figma
14 7 (0.87%) Pulumi
15 6 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (0.75%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.75%) Modbus
3 10 (1.25%) Network Security
4 9 (1.12%) CTI
4 9 (1.12%) Internet
5 7 (0.87%) Firewall
5 7 (0.87%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.75%) RS-232
7 5 (0.62%) WAN
8 4 (0.50%) 5G
8 4 (0.50%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.50%) RS-485
8 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.37%) NAS
9 3 (0.37%) SAN
10 2 (0.25%) HTTP
10 2 (0.25%) Intranet
10 2 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (34.83%) SQL Server
2 71 (8.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 56 (6.99%) Power BI
4 51 (6.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 32 (4.00%) MS Access
7 30 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 16 (2.00%) MySQL
10 15 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.50%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.25%) NoSQL
13 8 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (0.87%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
14 7 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 269 (33.58%) Git
2 149 (18.60%) JIRA
3 102 (12.73%) Bitbucket
4 86 (10.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 74 (9.24%) Sourcetree
6 61 (7.62%) NUnit
7 47 (5.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 39 (4.87%) Selenium
9 26 (3.25%) TeamCity
10 24 (3.00%) Postman
10 24 (3.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 23 (2.87%) GitLab
11 23 (2.87%) Octopus Deploy
11 23 (2.87%) SpecFlow
11 23 (2.87%) Subversion
12 21 (2.62%) Moq
13 18 (2.25%) Eclipse
13 18 (2.25%) SoapUI
14 17 (2.12%) WebDriver
15 14 (1.75%) git-flow
General
1 156 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 120 (14.98%) Finance
3 91 (11.36%) Games
4 88 (10.99%) Presentation Skills
5 63 (7.87%) Marketing
6 45 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (5.62%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.87%) Public Sector
8 37 (4.62%) Electronics
8 37 (4.62%) Retail
9 29 (3.62%) Law
10 21 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.37%) Legal
12 18 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.87%) Automotive
14 14 (1.75%) Back Office
15 13 (1.62%) Police
16 12 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 492 (61.42%) Developer
2 180 (22.47%) .NET Developer
3 146 (18.23%) Senior
4 131 (16.35%) C# Developer
5 108 (13.48%) Software Engineer
6 93 (11.61%) Software Developer
7 88 (10.99%) 3D Developer
7 88 (10.99%) Games Developer
7 88 (10.99%) Unity 3D Developer
8 87 (10.86%) Senior Developer
9 80 (9.99%) C# .NET Developer
10 69 (8.61%) Lead
11 67 (8.36%) Full Stack Developer
12 53 (6.62%) Applications Developer
13 51 (6.37%) Architect
14 48 (5.99%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 40 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 35 (4.37%) Analyst
17 34 (4.24%) .NET Applications Developer
18 33 (4.12%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 502 (62.67%) .NET
2 235 (29.34%) HTML
3 199 (24.84%) .NET Framework
4 198 (24.72%) ASP.NET
5 176 (21.97%) CSS
6 140 (17.48%) Web Services
7 121 (15.11%) XML
8 107 (13.36%) JSON
9 95 (11.86%) AngularJS
10 88 (10.99%) jQuery
10 88 (10.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 84 (10.49%) .NET Core
12 77 (9.61%) SOAP
13 72 (8.99%) RESTful
14 70 (8.74%) React
14 70 (8.74%) REST
15 66 (8.24%) HTML5
16 59 (7.37%) WPF
17 58 (7.24%) ASP.NET Web API
18 57 (7.12%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
2 42 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.25%) FMCG
4 18 (2.25%) IoT
5 16 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.00%) Robotics
6 14 (1.75%) Legacy Code
6 14 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.62%) GNSS
7 13 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.50%) Digital Media
9 11 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.12%) EPoS
11 8 (1.00%) BBC
11 8 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.00%) Social Media
12 7 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (14.86%) Windows
2 65 (8.11%) Linux
3 22 (2.75%) Android
4 15 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.62%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.37%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.37%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.25%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.25%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.25%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.12%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (38.58%) Agile
2 302 (37.70%) Software Engineering
3 285 (35.58%) DevOps
4 183 (22.85%) Scrum
5 149 (18.60%) MVC
6 142 (17.73%) Design Patterns
7 111 (13.86%) UML
8 109 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (12.11%) Unit Testing
10 94 (11.74%) Use Case
11 93 (11.61%) Test Automation
12 90 (11.24%) Full Stack Development
13 81 (10.11%) Computer Science
14 80 (9.99%) Continuous Integration
14 80 (9.99%) Web Development
15 75 (9.36%) CI/CD
16 74 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
17 70 (8.74%) OO
18 60 (7.49%) Software Testing
19 57 (7.12%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 606 (75.66%) C#
2 380 (47.44%) SQL
3 244 (30.46%) JavaScript
4 132 (16.48%) T-SQL
5 115 (14.36%) C++
6 92 (11.49%) C
7 74 (9.24%) Java
8 67 (8.36%) Python
9 53 (6.62%) VB.NET
10 41 (5.12%) PowerShell
11 40 (4.99%) TypeScript
12 39 (4.87%) VB
12 39 (4.87%) XPath
13 21 (2.62%) Bash
14 17 (2.12%) Perl
15 14 (1.75%) Assembly Language
15 14 (1.75%) Fortran
16 13 (1.62%) MATLAB
17 12 (1.50%) Delphi
17 12 (1.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (32.46%) Degree
2 137 (17.10%) Security Cleared
3 112 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 96 (11.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.75%) HNC
7 5 (0.62%) ISEB
7 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) HND
9 2 (0.25%) MCDST
9 2 (0.25%) MCITP
9 2 (0.25%) MCSA
9 2 (0.25%) MCSE
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.11%) QA
2 29 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 26 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.62%) PMO
5 8 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.87%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) MISRA
8 5 (0.62%) TickIT
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) GDPR
11 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (3.37%) Docker
2 13 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.75%) Firmware
5 3 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.87%) Ansible
2 7 (0.87%) MIIS
2 7 (0.87%) Terraform
3 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.25%) vRealize
5 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 390 (48.69%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.00%) SAP
3 22 (2.75%) Google
4 21 (2.62%) Oracle
5 18 (2.25%) Xamarin
6 17 (2.12%) Adobe
7 14 (1.75%) Cognizant
8 13 (1.62%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.62%) VMware
9 12 (1.50%) DevExpress
10 10 (1.25%) Facebook
11 8 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.87%) SYSPRO
13 6 (0.75%) OutSystems
13 6 (0.75%) Sun
14 5 (0.62%) Aderant
14 5 (0.62%) Lotus
14 5 (0.62%) Renesas
14 5 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.50%) Twitter