Visual Studio Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 135 210
Rank change year-on-year 0 +75 -56
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 1 17 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.029% 0.67% 0.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.78% 7.49% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 15
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +69.23% -23.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £64,875
90th Percentile - £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,400 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +14.29% -6.25%

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 128 227 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.71% 8.98% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 60 69 180
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +11.11% -14.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £84,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,810 £103,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% -7.69%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Scotland

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Visual Studio

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 7 August 2026. 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
Glasgow +12 1 £65,000 -18.75%
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Elite 3E
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Intapp
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft