Visual Studio Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Visual Studio
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 189 212
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 +10
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 4 24 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.17% 0.46% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.53% 4.74% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 24 17
10th Percentile £35,849 £43,750 £46,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £47,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,750 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +7.21% +22.35%
75th Percentile £54,375 £76,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £54,750 £97,500 -
North West median annual salary £51,250 £45,625 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.33% -8.75% -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 262 506 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.46% 9.67% 13.61%
Number of salaries quoted 181 382 409
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,025 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.99% -7.60% +8.23%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in Manchester

Visual Studio
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 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
Rochdale - 1 £52,500 -
Stockport - 1 - - 5
Visual Studio
North West

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OGRE
2 1 (25.00%) WCF
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CAD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) HND
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft