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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 79 95
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 +32
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 2 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.37% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.23% 6.84% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile - £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £46,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -25.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £47,750 £74,375
90th Percentile - £54,500 £81,250
South West median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - +5.00%

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 62 117 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.59% 12.42% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40 71 96
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £47,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,313 £69,500 £73,813
90th Percentile £85,375 £82,500 £88,125
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,530 £58,000
% change year-on-year -13.09% -0.81% +5.45%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend 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 5 November 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 & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

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