Visual Studio Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 231 252
Rank change year-on-year -63 +21 +33
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 5 67 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.062% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 7.75% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4 60 31
10th Percentile £35,149 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £38,438 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £45,625 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £55,625 £58,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £56,750 £72,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £53,094 £50,000 £55,450
% change year-on-year +6.19% -9.83% +0.82%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 826 865 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.24% 8.68% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 536 663 544
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,936 £40,550
25th Percentile £40,748 £42,500 £47,943
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the North West

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the North West

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the North West

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester +28 4 £52,500 -5.83% 15
Cheshire +1 1 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GNU Octave
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Automotive
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) WPF
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) LINQ
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) OGRE
2 1 (20.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CAD
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Physics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) HND
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft