Visual Studio Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 168 207
Rank change year-on-year -86 +39 +35
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 21 135 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 1.46% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.14% 11.08% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 21 108 51
10th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - - £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 669 1,218 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.46% 13.17% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 385 670 660
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in the South East

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the South East

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Surrey -7 8 £50,000 -37.50% 3
Thames Valley -64 5 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Isle of Wight - 5 £41,500 - 1
Oxfordshire -1 4 £75,000 +100.00% 1
Hampshire +25 2 £60,000 +5.26% 6
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £75,000 +57.89%
Kent -12 1 £55,000 - 6
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (23.81%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) Google Play
2 2 (9.52%) TestFlight
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) GIS
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) Android Studio
2 2 (9.52%) CMake
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Xcode
3 1 (4.76%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Publishing
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Electronics
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) .NET Developer
3 5 (23.81%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Blazor Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Software Tester
5 3 (14.29%) Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Android Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
6 2 (9.52%) iOS Android Developer
6 2 (9.52%) iOS Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) .NET
2 10 (47.62%) ASP.NET
3 6 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (23.81%) .NET Core
5 4 (19.05%) Blazor
6 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.52%) CSS
7 2 (9.52%) CSS3
7 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
7 2 (9.52%) Google Maps API
7 2 (9.52%) HTML
7 2 (9.52%) HTML5
7 2 (9.52%) JSON
7 2 (9.52%) OpenGL
7 2 (9.52%) OpenSceneGraph
7 2 (9.52%) QML
7 2 (9.52%) Qt
7 2 (9.52%) Qt Quick
7 2 (9.52%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Android
3 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Cross-Platform Development
7 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 3 (14.29%) QA Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (14.29%) SDET
8 2 (9.52%) Android Development
8 2 (9.52%) Batch Scripting
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
8 2 (9.52%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) C#
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) C++
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) C
5 3 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 2 (9.52%) Objective-C
6 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Apple
2 2 (9.52%) ESRI
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Mapbox
2 2 (9.52%) Xamarin
3 1 (4.76%) Infragistics
3 1 (4.76%) IONA
3 1 (4.76%) Perforce