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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 192 208
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 -60
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 26 18 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 0.47% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.35% 3.61% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 19 16 34
10th Percentile - - £41,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74,375 £54,625 £64,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,125 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +10.00%

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 777 498 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.64% 13.13% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 191 294 613
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,615 £37,885
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £71,216 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £79,250
UK median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Fife -1 7 £36,500 -18.89%
Dundee - 6 £32,500 -
Glasgow -79 4 £70,750 +15.04% 3
Aberdeen -10 3 £52,500 +23.53%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 -
Edinburgh - 2 £60,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 £32,500 -
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 6 (23.08%) Confluence
1 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.85%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Sage 200
1 6 (23.08%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
1 6 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
1 6 (23.08%) GitHub
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Modbus
1 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (26.92%) Git
3 6 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 6 (23.08%) Cypress.io
3 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) MSTest
4 2 (7.69%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) MSBuild
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (26.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Aviation
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) .NET Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Test Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) .NET Software Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Software Test Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 5 (19.23%) Systems Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
7 1 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (3.85%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Firmware Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) .NET
2 13 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 11 (42.31%) CSS
4 10 (38.46%) HTML
5 7 (26.92%) HTML5
6 6 (23.08%) .NET Core
6 6 (23.08%) jQuery
6 6 (23.08%) React Native
7 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
8 2 (7.69%) WinForms
8 2 (7.69%) WPF
9 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (3.85%) DOM
9 1 (3.85%) Next.js
9 1 (3.85%) REST
9 1 (3.85%) Sass
9 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) IoT
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (26.92%) Regression Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Biometrics
4 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (23.08%) E-Commerce
4 6 (23.08%) Energy Management
4 6 (23.08%) Functional Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Open Source
4 6 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Test Management
4 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) C#
2 18 (69.23%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 8 (30.77%) C++
5 3 (11.54%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) C
7 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) ISEB
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Sage
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Sitecore