Visual Studio Jobs in Wales

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 117 110
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -22
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 14 13 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.69% 0.78% 1.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.54% 6.19% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 31
10th Percentile £34,625 £37,425 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,063 £33,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,250 £45,000
90th Percentile - £65,400 £46,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +12.63%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 214 210 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.58% 12.57% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 161 122 246
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £78,750 £71,250
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Wales

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in Wales

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Wales over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in Wales

Visual Studio
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
South Wales +12 9 £70,000 +55.56%
West Wales - 4 £50,000 -
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) SoapUI
2 7 (50.00%) Git
2 7 (50.00%) JMeter
3 6 (42.86%) Postman
4 2 (14.29%) NUnit
5 1 (7.14%) GitKraken
5 1 (7.14%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (7.14%) MSTest
5 1 (7.14%) ReSharper
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
5 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Lead
2 6 (42.86%) QA Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) QA Leader
2 6 (42.86%) Quality Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) CSS3
2 2 (14.29%) HTML5
2 2 (14.29%) jQuery
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) Blazor
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (42.86%) Low-Code
2 4 (28.57%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Test Automation
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Analytics
4 6 (42.86%) Change Management
4 6 (42.86%) Defect Management
4 6 (42.86%) ETL
4 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 6 (42.86%) OO
4 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Time Management
5 4 (28.57%) Validation
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) MVC
6 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) C
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 4 (28.57%) MISRA
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) MuleSoft
1 6 (42.86%) OutSystems
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Renesas