Visual Studio Jobs in England

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 324 440
Rank change year-on-year -164 +116 -50
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 199 729 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.82% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.84% 9.15% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 186 594 436
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -12.28% +3.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,725
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.27% +1.32%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,182 7,963 12,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.71% 9.01% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,080 5,959 7,615
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £59,263 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.62% -8.83% +4.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in England

Visual Studio
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
South East -20 70 £67,500 +22.73% 86
South West +16 39 £46,500 -2.11% 25
London +22 33 £70,000 +16.67% 34
Midlands -15 28 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East Midlands +14 16 £52,500 +20.00% 18
East of England -9 16 £45,000 +26.76% 27
West Midlands +13 12 £60,750 +25.26% 24
North of England -31 11 £55,000 +15.79% 63
Yorkshire +56 6 £85,253 +70.51% 18
North West -60 3 £41,000 -11.35% 39
North East +43 2 £55,000 - 6
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.51%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (1.51%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) CMS
2 2 (1.01%) IIS
2 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) Luigi
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.50%) InVision
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.01%) Eikon
2 2 (1.01%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 104 (52.26%) Azure
2 45 (22.61%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (20.60%) Power Platform
4 34 (17.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 32 (16.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 29 (14.57%) SonarCloud
7 23 (11.56%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (10.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (7.04%) GitHub
11 11 (5.53%) AWS
11 11 (5.53%) Azure Functions
11 11 (5.53%) Serverless
12 10 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.02%) SaaS
14 5 (2.51%) Figma
14 5 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.01%) PowerApps
16 3 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.01%) 5G
1 4 (2.01%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.01%) WAN
1 4 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (44.22%) SQL Server
2 42 (21.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (17.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (14.57%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (11.06%) Power BI
6 16 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.53%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.52%) DB2
8 9 (4.52%) MySQL
9 7 (3.52%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.01%) Biml
11 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.51%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
14 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
14 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (28.64%) Git
2 44 (22.11%) JIRA
3 36 (18.09%) Team Foundation Server
4 31 (15.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 29 (14.57%) MSBuild
6 10 (5.03%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (3.52%) Postman
7 7 (3.52%) Selenium
7 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.51%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.01%) Fiddler
9 2 (1.01%) GitLab
9 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.01%) JetBrains Rider
9 2 (1.01%) NUnit
9 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.01%) Vite
10 1 (0.50%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 43 (21.61%) Retail
2 30 (15.08%) Finance
3 27 (13.57%) Avionics
3 27 (13.57%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.52%) Law
6 6 (3.02%) Banking
7 5 (2.51%) Marketing
8 4 (2.01%) Local Government
9 3 (1.51%) Back Office
9 3 (1.51%) Billing
9 3 (1.51%) Electronics
9 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.01%) Advertising
10 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.01%) Front Office
10 2 (1.01%) Police
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (38.19%) Developer
2 56 (28.14%) Senior
3 34 (17.09%) Architect
4 29 (14.57%) Technical Architect
5 26 (13.07%) .NET Developer
5 26 (13.07%) C# Developer
5 26 (13.07%) Software Engineer
6 20 (10.05%) C# .NET Developer
7 18 (9.05%) Portal Developer
8 14 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.53%) Analyst
10 10 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Applications Support
11 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.02%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (4.02%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Consultant
12 8 (4.02%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (63.32%) .NET
2 66 (33.17%) ASP.NET
3 59 (29.65%) JSON
4 54 (27.14%) XML
5 52 (26.13%) .NET Framework
6 45 (22.61%) CSS
7 44 (22.11%) REST
8 42 (21.11%) HTML
9 41 (20.60%) .NET Core
10 36 (18.09%) Bootstrap
11 29 (14.57%) gRPC
12 26 (13.07%) React
13 16 (8.04%) AngularJS
13 16 (8.04%) ASP.NET MVC
14 15 (7.54%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (4.52%) Web Services
16 7 (3.52%) Entity Framework
17 6 (3.02%) SOAP
18 5 (2.51%) WPF
19 4 (2.01%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.06%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.53%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (6.03%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.02%) Replication
5 6 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.01%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.01%) GNSS
6 4 (2.01%) Self-Driving Car
7 3 (1.51%) EPoS
7 3 (1.51%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Derivative
9 1 (0.50%) FPGA
9 1 (0.50%) PropTech
9 1 (0.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.08%) Linux
2 17 (8.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.68%) DevOps
2 57 (28.64%) Agile
3 55 (27.64%) MVC
4 44 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (18.59%) Design Patterns
5 37 (18.59%) Microservices
6 36 (18.09%) Event-Driven
6 36 (18.09%) Mathematics
6 36 (18.09%) Software Engineering
6 36 (18.09%) User Experience
7 34 (17.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 31 (15.58%) API Integration
8 31 (15.58%) Code Quality
9 30 (15.08%) Physics
9 30 (15.08%) UX Design
10 29 (14.57%) CI/CD
10 29 (14.57%) Data Encryption
10 29 (14.57%) Performance Optimisation
10 29 (14.57%) Performance Testing
11 28 (14.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (58.79%) C#
2 109 (54.77%) SQL
3 64 (32.16%) JavaScript
4 39 (19.60%) C
5 27 (13.57%) T-SQL
6 13 (6.53%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.03%) C++
8 10 (5.03%) VB.NET
9 9 (4.52%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.02%) X++
11 3 (1.51%) Delphi
11 3 (1.51%) Java
11 3 (1.51%) Python
12 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.50%) Fortran
13 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.50%) PHP
13 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (25.13%) Degree
2 6 (3.02%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.50%) ACCA
5 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.50%) PhD
5 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.57%) GDPR
2 10 (5.03%) QA
3 4 (2.01%) PMO
4 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (18.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 113 (56.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.52%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.52%) SolarWinds
4 6 (3.02%) Oracle
5 4 (2.01%) Intel
6 3 (1.51%) Aderant
6 3 (1.51%) Borland
7 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.01%) Freshdesk
7 2 (1.01%) Reuters
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Cognos
8 1 (0.50%) Facebook
8 1 (0.50%) Genesys
8 1 (0.50%) Murex
8 1 (0.50%) Pardot
8 1 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Telerik
8 1 (0.50%) Workday