Visual Studio Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 310 352 355
Rank change year-on-year +42 +3 -131
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 322 354 664
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.85% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.31% 5.60% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 285 259 473
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,198 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +0.36% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,877 6,325 16,458
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.48% 15.25% 24.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 4,492 8,327
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,085 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +6.81% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%

Visual Studio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio.

Visual Studio salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Visual Studio salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (8.39%) IIS
1 27 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.97%) CMS
3 4 (1.24%) EPiServer
3 4 (1.24%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.62%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.31%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.62%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (5.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (4.97%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.24%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.31%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 170 (52.80%) Azure
2 102 (31.68%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (12.11%) Power Platform
4 35 (10.87%) GitHub
5 28 (8.70%) AWS
6 21 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.11%) SaaS
8 9 (2.80%) Google Analytics
9 7 (2.17%) Figma
9 7 (2.17%) Pulumi
10 6 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.86%) PaaS
10 6 (1.86%) Serverless
11 5 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.04%) Modbus
1 13 (4.04%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.80%) CTI
3 7 (2.17%) Network Security
4 6 (1.86%) Internet
5 3 (0.93%) 5G
5 3 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.93%) WAN
6 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.62%) RS-232
6 2 (0.62%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.31%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (34.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (5.90%) Power BI
5 14 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (2.17%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 7 (2.17%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
7 7 (2.17%) SQLite
8 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.24%) Redis
9 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.93%) DBAmp
9 3 (0.93%) MySQL
10 2 (0.62%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 66 (20.50%) Git
2 42 (13.04%) Team Foundation Server
3 38 (11.80%) Visual Studio Code
4 22 (6.83%) Postman
5 21 (6.52%) Selenium
6 20 (6.21%) NUnit
7 19 (5.90%) JIRA
8 15 (4.66%) SoapUI
9 13 (4.04%) GitLab
10 12 (3.73%) TeamCity
11 11 (3.42%) Eclipse
12 10 (3.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (2.48%) Subversion
14 7 (2.17%) Jasmine
15 6 (1.86%) JMeter
15 6 (1.86%) SpecFlow
16 5 (1.55%) Android Studio
16 5 (1.55%) Cypress.io
17 3 (0.93%) Moq
18 2 (0.62%) WebDriver
General
1 79 (24.53%) Finance
2 63 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.63%) Manufacturing
4 26 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.76%) Retail
6 24 (7.45%) Marketing
7 22 (6.83%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.59%) Electronics
9 16 (4.97%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.35%) Legal
11 13 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (4.04%) Law
12 12 (3.73%) Publishing
13 11 (3.42%) Police
14 10 (3.11%) Automotive
15 7 (2.17%) Local Government
16 5 (1.55%) Military
17 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.93%) Aerospace
19 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 185 (57.45%) Developer
2 113 (35.09%) .NET Developer
3 60 (18.63%) C# Developer
4 53 (16.46%) C# .NET Developer
5 47 (14.60%) Software Developer
6 46 (14.29%) Lead
7 44 (13.66%) Senior
8 38 (11.80%) Architect
9 34 (10.56%) Applications Developer
9 34 (10.56%) Software Engineer
10 25 (7.76%) .NET Applications Developer
11 23 (7.14%) C# Application Developer
12 22 (6.83%) Full Stack Developer
13 20 (6.21%) .NET Software Developer
13 20 (6.21%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 19 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (5.59%) Lead Developer
16 16 (4.97%) Full Stack .NET Developer
16 16 (4.97%) Lead .NET Developer
17 15 (4.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (71.43%) .NET
2 110 (34.16%) .NET Framework
3 108 (33.54%) HTML
4 81 (25.16%) CSS
5 77 (23.91%) ASP.NET
6 56 (17.39%) AngularJS
7 47 (14.60%) HTML5
8 44 (13.66%) .NET Core
9 39 (12.11%) XML
10 38 (11.80%) Web Services
11 37 (11.49%) WPF
12 36 (11.18%) REST
12 36 (11.18%) SOAP
13 34 (10.56%) RESTful
14 33 (10.25%) JSON
15 31 (9.63%) Blazor
16 27 (8.39%) jQuery
16 27 (8.39%) React
17 26 (8.07%) WinForms
18 23 (7.14%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.07%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (5.59%) FMCG
3 12 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (1.86%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.93%) GNSS
9 3 (0.93%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.93%) W3C
10 2 (0.62%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.62%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.62%) Tandem
11 1 (0.31%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.31%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.22%) Windows
2 17 (5.28%) Linux
3 10 (3.11%) Android
4 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (47.83%) Agile
2 122 (37.89%) DevOps
3 90 (27.95%) Software Engineering
4 75 (23.29%) MVC
5 55 (17.08%) Continuous Integration
6 52 (16.15%) Scrum
7 51 (15.84%) CI/CD
8 47 (14.60%) Test Automation
9 46 (14.29%) Web Development
10 45 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (13.35%) TDD
12 42 (13.04%) Unit Testing
13 39 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (9.94%) Microservices
14 32 (9.94%) OO
15 31 (9.63%) Multithreading
16 27 (8.39%) Design Patterns
16 27 (8.39%) Full Stack Development
16 27 (8.39%) User Stories
17 26 (8.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 244 (75.78%) C#
2 128 (39.75%) SQL
3 116 (36.02%) JavaScript
4 42 (13.04%) Java
5 39 (12.11%) T-SQL
6 37 (11.49%) C++
7 21 (6.52%) Python
8 20 (6.21%) C
9 19 (5.90%) TypeScript
9 19 (5.90%) VB.NET
9 19 (5.90%) XPath
10 10 (3.11%) Bash
11 8 (2.48%) PHP
11 8 (2.48%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.17%) Bicep
12 7 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.62%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.62%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (15.53%) Degree
2 21 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.86%) HNC
5 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.22%) QA
2 21 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.24%) WCAG
5 3 (0.93%) PMO
6 2 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (3.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.55%) Firmware
3 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.17%) MIIS
2 7 (2.17%) Terraform
3 2 (0.62%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 119 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.97%) SAP
3 9 (2.80%) Google
4 7 (2.17%) Oracle
5 6 (1.86%) Facebook
5 6 (1.86%) MuleSoft
5 6 (1.86%) OutSystems
6 4 (1.24%) Aderant
6 4 (1.24%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.93%) Adobe
7 3 (0.93%) DevExpress
7 3 (0.93%) Pardot
7 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.62%) Cerner
8 2 (0.62%) Epicor
9 1 (0.31%) Lotus
9 1 (0.31%) Sage