Visual Studio Job Trends in County Antrim

Microsoft Visual Studio
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim 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 46 40 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +47
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.22% 0.38% 2.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.00% 2.63% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £46,250
90th Percentile - - £50,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary - - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Development Application Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 20 38 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 4.34% 14.45% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 40
10th Percentile £45,800 £44,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £57,500 £87,750
Northern Ireland 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 County Antrim

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
Belfast -2 1 - - 1
Visual Studio
Northern Ireland

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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