Visual Studio Job Trends in England

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 492 345
Rank change year-on-year -153 -147 +85
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 71 159 687
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.082% 0.37% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.82% 4.31% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 53 147 539
10th Percentile £34,400 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,706 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.62%

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 3,905 3,685 7,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.49% 8.53% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,623 2,409 5,586
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £61,700 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.08% +13.04% -11.54%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in England

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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
London -29 26 £83,000 +18.57% 11
Midlands -36 14 £47,500 -19.49% 7
South East -92 10 £50,000 -28.57% 17
East Midlands -24 8 £36,250 -38.30% 4
North of England -44 8 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands -18 6 £52,500 -11.02% 3
East of England -20 5 £45,000 - 9
North West -3 4 £59,000 +27.57% 3
Yorkshire -34 4 £49,500 -31.84%
South West -69 3 £35,000 -54.84% 4
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) CMS
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.41%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) Azure
2 31 (43.66%) Power Platform
3 16 (22.54%) Power Automate
4 13 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (11.27%) dbt
5 8 (11.27%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (8.45%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub
8 3 (4.23%) AWS
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.23%) SaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Figma
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.41%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.41%) Sumo Logic
10 1 (1.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.82%) HTTP
1 2 (2.82%) RFID
1 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.82%) Wireless
2 1 (1.41%) ATM
2 1 (1.41%) LTE
2 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (39.44%) SQL Server
2 25 (35.21%) Power BI
3 17 (23.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (14.08%) Metabase
6 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.82%) Power Query
8 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.41%) Redis
8 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Git
2 8 (11.27%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) NUnit
3 4 (5.63%) Selenium
3 4 (5.63%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (5.63%) WinDbg
4 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.82%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.82%) JMeter
4 2 (2.82%) Postman
4 2 (2.82%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.82%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.82%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.41%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.41%) GDB
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.08%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Electronics
5 3 (4.23%) Law
5 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.23%) Publishing
5 3 (4.23%) Retail
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Aviation
7 1 (1.41%) Back Office
7 1 (1.41%) Games
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Senior
2 14 (19.72%) Software Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) Financial Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) IT Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) IT Support
4 10 (14.08%) IT Support Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) Support Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) Systems Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) Systems Support
4 10 (14.08%) Systems Support Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.04%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.63%) C++ Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.21%) .NET
2 8 (11.27%) ASP.NET
3 7 (9.86%) CSS
3 7 (9.86%) HTML
3 7 (9.86%) REST
3 7 (9.86%) STL
4 6 (8.45%) React
5 5 (7.04%) .NET Framework
5 5 (7.04%) JSON
5 5 (7.04%) WinForms
6 4 (5.63%) WPF
6 4 (5.63%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (4.23%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.23%) Kafka
7 3 (4.23%) Node.js
7 3 (4.23%) RESTful
8 2 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.82%) Web Services
8 2 (2.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.63%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Code
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Replication
3 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.82%) EPoS
4 2 (2.82%) FPGA
4 2 (2.82%) PCIe
4 2 (2.82%) Photography
4 2 (2.82%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.41%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (30.99%) Agile
2 22 (30.99%) Software Engineering
3 19 (26.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (26.76%) DevOps
3 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (22.54%) CI/CD
5 13 (18.31%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (18.31%) Scrum
6 12 (16.90%) Data Management
7 11 (15.49%) Data Analysis
7 11 (15.49%) Project Management
8 9 (12.68%) CRM
8 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
9 8 (11.27%) Data Transformation
9 8 (11.27%) ERP
9 8 (11.27%) Facilities Management
9 8 (11.27%) OOP
10 7 (9.86%) AI
10 7 (9.86%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 41 (57.75%) SQL
2 35 (49.30%) C#
3 17 (23.94%) C++
4 12 (16.90%) T-SQL
5 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.27%) Python
7 3 (4.23%) Bicep
8 2 (2.82%) C
8 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.41%) Ada
9 1 (1.41%) Delphi
9 1 (1.41%) Java
9 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Degree
2 6 (8.45%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.23%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) MIIS
Vendors
1 30 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Solace
3 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.41%) Databricks
3 1 (1.41%) Google
3 1 (1.41%) Infor
3 1 (1.41%) Veracode
3 1 (1.41%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.41%) Yahoo!