Visual Studio Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Visual Studio
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 145 156
Rank change year-on-year +41 +11 +80
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 23 24 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.10% 0.88% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.13% 6.58% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 16
10th Percentile £70,625 - £51,500
25th Percentile £72,313 £42,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,438 £82,500
90th Percentile - £72,375 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -28.57% +7.69%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 152 365 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.29% 13.43% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 115 266 445
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £84,375 £88,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £109,500 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -23.53% +6.25%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in the City of London

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the City of London

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 22 (95.65%) Azure
3 18 (78.26%) Power Automate
4 17 (73.91%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (65.22%) PowerApps
6 14 (60.87%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (17.39%) dbt
8 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.35%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (86.96%) Power BI
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (21.74%) Metabase
4 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) NUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (86.96%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Lead
2 6 (26.09%) Development Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Development Support Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Financial Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) IT Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) IT Support
3 5 (21.74%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Support Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Support
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Support Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) REST
1 14 (60.87%) SOAP
1 14 (60.87%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) ADO
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
1 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
1 16 (69.57%) CRM
2 15 (65.22%) Scrum
3 14 (60.87%) API Management
3 14 (60.87%) Data Migration
3 14 (60.87%) ITIL
3 14 (60.87%) Line Management
3 14 (60.87%) Migration
3 14 (60.87%) OWASP
4 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (21.74%) Data Management
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
5 4 (17.39%) ERP
5 4 (17.39%) Facilities Management
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) ISEB
1 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Aderant
2 1 (4.35%) HP
2 1 (4.35%) iManage
2 1 (4.35%) Intapp
2 1 (4.35%) RedGate
2 1 (4.35%) Siebel