Visual Studio Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 228 188
Rank change year-on-year +84 -40 +31
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 27 35 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 0.54% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.04% 4.01% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 20
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +32.35% -29.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,313 £54,625
90th Percentile - £80,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,324
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.62% +0.59%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 336 872 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.26% 13.43% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 132 223 310
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in Scotland

Visual Studio
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Edinburgh +35 12 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Dundee +18 8 £32,500 -
Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 -
Glasgow +118 2 £80,000 +30.08% 2
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (29.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Sage 200
1 8 (29.63%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) GitHub
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Fiddler
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Postman
2 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.70%) PyCharm
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (29.63%) Manufacturing
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 16 (59.26%) Senior
3 10 (37.04%) Java Developer
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Developer
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Java Developer
4 9 (33.33%) .NET Developer
5 8 (29.63%) .NET Software Developer
6 7 (25.93%) C++ Developer
6 7 (25.93%) C++/Java Developer
6 7 (25.93%) Senior C++ Developer
7 6 (22.22%) Architect
7 6 (22.22%) Senior Architect
7 6 (22.22%) Senior Software Architect
7 6 (22.22%) Senior Systems Architect
7 6 (22.22%) Software Architect
7 6 (22.22%) Systems Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Lead
8 1 (3.70%) Linux Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) .NET
1 16 (59.26%) .NET Framework
1 16 (59.26%) CSS
1 16 (59.26%) HTML
2 10 (37.04%) .NET Core
2 10 (37.04%) HTML5
2 10 (37.04%) jQuery
3 9 (33.33%) React Native
4 7 (25.93%) MFC
5 2 (7.41%) ADO.NET
5 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (7.41%) CSS3
5 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (7.41%) JSON
5 2 (7.41%) REST
5 2 (7.41%) RESTful
5 2 (7.41%) Swagger
5 2 (7.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Virtual Team
2 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Biometrics
2 8 (29.63%) E-Commerce
2 8 (29.63%) Microservices
2 8 (29.63%) OO
3 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 6 (22.22%) Multithreading
3 6 (22.22%) SOA
3 6 (22.22%) Software Architecture
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.11%) Scrum
5 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (7.41%) MVC
6 2 (7.41%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) SQL
2 16 (59.26%) C++
2 16 (59.26%) Java
3 14 (51.85%) C#
4 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
5 8 (29.63%) C
6 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Sage