Visual Studio Job Trends in Belfast

Microsoft Visual Studio
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +39
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.25% 0.39% 1.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.33% 2.63% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.38%
75th Percentile - - £50,000
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Development Application Skills
Belfast

Visual Studio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 12 38 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.94% 14.90% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 33
10th Percentile £48,600 £44,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £53,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £57,500 £89,500
County Antrim median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +15.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Visual Studio relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Belfast

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) HND
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft