Visual Studio Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 304 350
Rank change year-on-year -31 +46 -38
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 11 83 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.095% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.04% 5.58% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 76 56
10th Percentile £40,400 £36,500 £38,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,778 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -12.28% +3.64%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,062 1,487 2,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.18% 8.21% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 664 1,161 1,160
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,222 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,600 £82,548 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the North of England

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Yorkshire +56 6 £85,253 +70.51% 8
North West -60 3 £41,000 -11.35% 22
North East +43 2 £55,000 - 4
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GNU Octave
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Slack
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (54.55%) Power BI
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (36.36%) Biml
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) NUnit
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Software Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
1 7 (63.64%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Fintech
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Clean Code
3 4 (36.36%) Coaching
3 4 (36.36%) ETL Development
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Prototyping
3 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
3 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) OO
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) OOP
5 2 (18.18%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
4 2 (18.18%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft