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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 326 438
Rank change year-on-year -155 +112 -56
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 202 731 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.81% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.79% 9.14% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 189 591 427
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 £69,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,198
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.42% +0.36%

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 5,329 8,001 11,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.81% 8.91% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,177 5,945 7,453
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 £76,840 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +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 31 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 31 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 -26 73 £65,000 +18.18% 43
South West +13 39 £46,500 -7.00% 11
London +8 33 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Midlands -11 26 £55,000 +22.22% 17
East of England -2 16 £45,000 +26.76% 11
East Midlands +15 14 £52,500 +20.00% 8
North of England -32 13 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands +7 12 £60,750 +25.26% 9
Yorkshire +50 6 £85,253 +70.51% 2
North West -57 5 £46,250 - 13
North East +45 2 £55,000 - 1
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 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (1.49%) CMS
1 3 (1.49%) Confluence
1 3 (1.49%) IIS
1 3 (1.49%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.50%) Luigi
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) 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 (4.46%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.99%) Eikon
2 2 (0.99%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 104 (51.49%) Azure
2 46 (22.77%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (19.31%) Power Platform
4 35 (17.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 33 (16.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 30 (14.85%) SonarCloud
7 23 (11.39%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (9.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (7.43%) GitHub
11 12 (5.94%) AWS
12 11 (5.45%) Azure Functions
12 11 (5.45%) Serverless
13 10 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.97%) SaaS
15 5 (2.48%) Figma
15 5 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.98%) Power Automate
17 3 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
17 3 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) 5G
1 4 (1.98%) SD-WAN
1 4 (1.98%) WAN
1 4 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.50%) RS-232
2 1 (0.50%) RS-422
2 1 (0.50%) RS-485
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (42.57%) SQL Server
2 41 (20.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 33 (16.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (14.85%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (10.89%) Power BI
6 16 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.44%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.46%) DB2
8 9 (4.46%) MySQL
9 8 (3.96%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.98%) Biml
11 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
14 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
14 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (29.21%) Git
2 45 (22.28%) JIRA
3 37 (18.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 33 (16.34%) Octopus Deploy
5 30 (14.85%) MSBuild
6 11 (5.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (3.96%) Postman
8 7 (3.47%) Selenium
8 7 (3.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.49%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.49%) Vite
10 2 (0.99%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.99%) GitLab
10 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.99%) JetBrains Rider
10 2 (0.99%) NUnit
10 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.50%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 44 (21.78%) Retail
2 30 (14.85%) Finance
2 30 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.37%) Avionics
4 11 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.47%) Banking
5 7 (3.47%) Law
6 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.48%) Marketing
7 4 (1.98%) Local Government
8 3 (1.49%) Advertising
8 3 (1.49%) Back Office
8 3 (1.49%) Billing
8 3 (1.49%) Electronics
8 3 (1.49%) Front Office
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 78 (38.61%) Developer
2 55 (27.23%) Senior
3 35 (17.33%) Architect
4 30 (14.85%) Technical Architect
5 29 (14.36%) C# Developer
6 26 (12.87%) Software Engineer
7 24 (11.88%) .NET Developer
8 20 (9.90%) C# .NET Developer
9 17 (8.42%) Portal Developer
10 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.44%) Analyst
12 10 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) Applications Support
13 9 (4.46%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.46%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 9 (4.46%) Lead
13 9 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (3.96%) Applications Support Analyst
14 8 (3.96%) Consultant
14 8 (3.96%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (62.87%) .NET
2 67 (33.17%) ASP.NET
3 59 (29.21%) JSON
4 55 (27.23%) .NET Framework
5 54 (26.73%) XML
6 47 (23.27%) CSS
7 44 (21.78%) HTML
7 44 (21.78%) REST
8 42 (20.79%) .NET Core
9 37 (18.32%) Bootstrap
10 30 (14.85%) gRPC
11 25 (12.38%) React
12 16 (7.92%) AngularJS
12 16 (7.92%) ASP.NET MVC
13 15 (7.43%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (4.46%) Web Services
15 8 (3.96%) Entity Framework
16 6 (2.97%) SOAP
17 5 (2.48%) WinForms
17 5 (2.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.40%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.44%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.94%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.97%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.97%) Replication
6 5 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.98%) GNSS
7 4 (1.98%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (1.49%) EPoS
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.99%) Derivative
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.50%) FPGA
10 1 (0.50%) NHS
10 1 (0.50%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.50%) Robotics
10 1 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.84%) Linux
2 19 (9.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.62%) DevOps
2 57 (28.22%) Agile
3 56 (27.72%) MVC
4 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (19.31%) Microservices
6 38 (18.81%) Design Patterns
7 37 (18.32%) Event-Driven
7 37 (18.32%) Software Engineering
7 37 (18.32%) User Experience
8 35 (17.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 35 (17.33%) Mathematics
9 32 (15.84%) Code Quality
10 31 (15.35%) API Integration
10 31 (15.35%) CI/CD
10 31 (15.35%) UX Design
11 30 (14.85%) Data Encryption
11 30 (14.85%) Performance Optimisation
11 30 (14.85%) Performance Testing
11 30 (14.85%) Physics
12 27 (13.37%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 121 (59.90%) C#
2 108 (53.47%) SQL
3 65 (32.18%) JavaScript
4 40 (19.80%) C
5 25 (12.38%) T-SQL
6 13 (6.44%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.94%) C++
8 10 (4.95%) VB.NET
9 9 (4.46%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.97%) X++
11 3 (1.49%) Delphi
11 3 (1.49%) Java
11 3 (1.49%) Python
12 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.50%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.50%) Fortran
13 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 54 (26.73%) Degree
2 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.97%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.50%) ACCA
4 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.50%) PhD
4 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) GDPR
2 11 (5.45%) QA
3 4 (1.98%) PMO
4 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (18.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 110 (54.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.46%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.47%) Oracle
3 7 (3.47%) SolarWinds
4 4 (1.98%) Intel
5 3 (1.49%) Aderant
5 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.49%) Borland
6 2 (0.99%) Freshdesk
6 2 (0.99%) Reuters
7 1 (0.50%) Adobe
7 1 (0.50%) Cognos
7 1 (0.50%) Facebook
7 1 (0.50%) Genesys
7 1 (0.50%) Murex
7 1 (0.50%) Pardot
7 1 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.50%) Telerik
7 1 (0.50%) Workday