Visual Studio Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Visual Studio
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 84 94
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +26
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 2 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.37% 0.64% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.17% 5.51% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - - £61,750
25th Percentile - £45,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £46,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -31.11% +107.69%
75th Percentile - £47,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - £55,850 £81,500
South West median annual salary £37,125 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.29% - -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 63 127 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.52% 11.57% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 45 79 101
10th Percentile £27,500 £36,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £45,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £81,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% +7.34%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Gloucestershire

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Cinderford - 2 - -
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) VC++
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft