Visual Studio Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft Visual Studio
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Visual Studio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 109 133
Rank change year-on-year +40 +24 +4
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 15 2 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.71% 0.13% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.04% 1.12% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 9
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £59,758
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +10.20%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,625 - -
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.57% +44.71% -29.17%

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 115 178 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.10% 12.01% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 70 149 184
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,488 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,548 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £91,934 £96,956
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +0.80%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Edinburgh

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in Edinburgh

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in Edinburgh

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Solr
1 2 (13.33%) CMS
1 2 (13.33%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (13.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Fiddler
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) Postman
1 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (13.33%) MSBuild
2 2 (13.33%) webpack
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 10 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 10 (66.67%) Senior
2 10 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 10 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 7 (46.67%) C++ Developer
3 7 (46.67%) C++/Java Developer
3 7 (46.67%) Senior C++ Developer
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) MFC
2 5 (33.33%) .NET
3 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (26.67%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (20.00%) ADO.NET
4 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 3 (20.00%) Swagger
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (13.33%) CSS3
5 2 (13.33%) HTML5
5 2 (13.33%) jQuery
5 2 (13.33%) Next.js
5 2 (13.33%) React
5 2 (13.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) API Management
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) OOP
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Personalization
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C++
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Optimizely
1 2 (13.33%) Sitecore