Visual Studio Job Trends in Newport

Microsoft Visual Studio
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport 0.44% 2.13% -
As % of the Development Applications category 8.33% 12.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £48,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% - -
75th Percentile £54,000 £50,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £52,000 £60,716 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.35% -13.26% +55.56%

All Development Application Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 12 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 5.29% 17.02% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £28,025 £45,050 £43,500
25th Percentile £36,313 £54,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £69,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.61% +38.00% -18.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,600 £61,000
90th Percentile - £70,760 £66,100
South Wales median annual salary £57,066 £47,904 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.13% -4.19% -9.09%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Newport

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Newport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft