Visual Studio Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 316 417 289
Rank change year-on-year +101 -128 -50
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 475 278 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.58% 1.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.94% 4.40% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 360 220 719
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,316 6,315 14,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.14% 13.12% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,460 3,969 7,689
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the UK excluding London 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
South East +104 187 £62,500 - 10
South West +36 75 £50,000 - 22
Midlands -11 70 £47,500 - 8
North of England +13 60 £50,000 - 11
North West +17 47 £50,000 +6.90% 6
East of England +15 47 £35,500 -25.26% 7
West Midlands -13 40 £50,000 +5.26% 6
East Midlands -8 30 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland -34 26 £52,500 +23.53% 4
Yorkshire +35 9 £46,250 -7.50% 5
Wales +33 9 £58,750 +18.69% 5
North East -9 4 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland +18 1 £42,500 -29.17% 1
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 36 (7.58%) Confluence
2 22 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.58%) IIS
4 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 4 (0.84%) Apache
6 3 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.63%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.21%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.47%) Shopify
3 6 (1.26%) Sage 200
3 6 (1.26%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.42%) Maximo
5 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.21%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.21%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 166 (34.95%) Azure
2 92 (19.37%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (8.42%) Power Platform
4 30 (6.32%) AWS
5 25 (5.26%) GitHub
6 22 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (3.16%) SaaS
8 13 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (2.53%) Serverless
10 11 (2.32%) Azure Functions
11 10 (2.11%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.68%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (1.47%) Pulumi
13 7 (1.47%) SonarCloud
14 6 (1.26%) Figma
15 3 (0.63%) WhatsApp
16 2 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
16 2 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.16%) Network Security
2 12 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.26%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.26%) Firewall
3 6 (1.26%) RS-232
3 6 (1.26%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.84%) Bluetooth
4 4 (0.84%) CTI
4 4 (0.84%) Internet
4 4 (0.84%) RS-485
4 4 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.63%) Modbus
5 3 (0.63%) NAS
5 3 (0.63%) SAN
6 2 (0.42%) DHCP
6 2 (0.42%) HTTP
6 2 (0.42%) VoIP
7 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.21%) DNS
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (27.16%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 25 (5.26%) Power BI
4 19 (4.00%) MS Access
4 19 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.16%) MySQL
5 15 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (2.53%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (1.26%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.84%) Big Data
12 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.63%) SQLite
14 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 149 (31.37%) Git
2 63 (13.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 51 (10.74%) JIRA
4 36 (7.58%) NUnit
5 35 (7.37%) Bitbucket
6 34 (7.16%) Visual Studio Code
7 32 (6.74%) Selenium
8 26 (5.47%) GitLab
9 24 (5.05%) Sourcetree
10 19 (4.00%) Jenkins
11 18 (3.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 18 (3.79%) Postman
12 16 (3.37%) MSBuild
12 16 (3.37%) Subversion
13 14 (2.95%) Jasmine
13 14 (2.95%) TeamCity
14 10 (2.11%) MSTest
15 9 (1.89%) WebDriver
16 8 (1.68%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.68%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 98 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.26%) Finance
3 31 (6.53%) Manufacturing
3 31 (6.53%) Marketing
4 29 (6.11%) Law
5 27 (5.68%) Games
6 25 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.26%) Electronics
7 24 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (4.21%) Retail
9 14 (2.95%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.32%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.89%) Automotive
12 9 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.68%) Back Office
13 8 (1.68%) Multimedia
14 7 (1.47%) Legal
14 7 (1.47%) Police
15 6 (1.26%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 272 (57.26%) Developer
2 109 (22.95%) .NET Developer
3 88 (18.53%) Senior
4 79 (16.63%) Software Engineer
5 73 (15.37%) C# Developer
6 69 (14.53%) Software Developer
7 52 (10.95%) Architect
8 51 (10.74%) Senior Developer
9 50 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
10 45 (9.47%) Lead
11 34 (7.16%) .NET Software Developer
12 33 (6.95%) C# Software Developer
13 31 (6.53%) Senior .NET Developer
14 29 (6.11%) Full Stack Developer
15 27 (5.68%) Software Architect
16 26 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
17 24 (5.05%) Lead Developer
18 23 (4.84%) 3D Developer
18 23 (4.84%) Games Developer
18 23 (4.84%) Unity 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (66.11%) .NET
2 138 (29.05%) HTML
3 127 (26.74%) ASP.NET
4 119 (25.05%) .NET Framework
5 112 (23.58%) CSS
6 74 (15.58%) .NET Core
6 74 (15.58%) XML
7 70 (14.74%) JSON
8 57 (12.00%) AngularJS
9 46 (9.68%) jQuery
10 45 (9.47%) HTML5
10 45 (9.47%) Web Services
11 44 (9.26%) Entity Framework
12 42 (8.84%) RESTful
13 36 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
13 36 (7.58%) REST
14 34 (7.16%) React
14 34 (7.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 24 (5.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 24 (5.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.26%) Virtual Reality
2 22 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 21 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.00%) IoT
5 17 (3.58%) Robotics
6 13 (2.74%) FMCG
7 12 (2.53%) Digital Media
7 12 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.53%) GNSS
7 12 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.47%) EPoS
10 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.05%) PMI
12 4 (0.84%) Arduino
13 3 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.63%) Raspberry Pi
13 3 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 77 (16.21%) Windows
2 53 (11.16%) Linux
3 15 (3.16%) Windows 10
4 13 (2.74%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.53%) Android
6 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.63%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.42%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.42%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.42%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (47.37%) Agile
2 178 (37.47%) Software Engineering
3 177 (37.26%) DevOps
4 89 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (15.79%) MVC
6 72 (15.16%) Scrum
7 68 (14.32%) Design Patterns
8 62 (13.05%) Test Automation
9 59 (12.42%) Unit Testing
10 51 (10.74%) Computer Science
11 50 (10.53%) Software Testing
11 50 (10.53%) Web Development
12 48 (10.11%) CI/CD
13 46 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
13 46 (9.68%) Multithreading
14 44 (9.26%) UML
15 42 (8.84%) Continuous Integration
16 40 (8.42%) Microservices
17 38 (8.00%) SDLC
18 36 (7.58%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 361 (76.00%) C#
2 226 (47.58%) SQL
3 148 (31.16%) JavaScript
4 114 (24.00%) C++
5 67 (14.11%) C
6 52 (10.95%) Python
7 40 (8.42%) T-SQL
8 35 (7.37%) TypeScript
9 33 (6.95%) VB
9 33 (6.95%) VB.NET
10 30 (6.32%) Fortran
11 24 (5.05%) Java
11 24 (5.05%) PowerShell
12 15 (3.16%) Bash
13 12 (2.53%) Perl
14 11 (2.32%) Assembly Language
15 8 (1.68%) VBA
16 7 (1.47%) Bicep
16 7 (1.47%) Delphi
16 7 (1.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 140 (29.47%) Degree
2 75 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 44 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.63%) HNC
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.42%) MCDST
8 2 (0.42%) MCITP
8 2 (0.42%) MCSA
8 2 (0.42%) MCSE
8 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ISEB
9 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.79%) QA
2 16 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.53%) PMO
4 10 (2.11%) GDPR
5 7 (1.47%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.26%) TickIT
7 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) MISRA
8 2 (0.42%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 22 (4.63%) Docker
2 14 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (2.74%) Ansible
2 8 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.47%) MIIS
3 7 (1.47%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 214 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.58%) Oracle
3 14 (2.95%) SAP
3 14 (2.95%) VMware
4 12 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 10 (2.11%) Xamarin
6 6 (1.26%) Sage
7 5 (1.05%) Facebook
7 5 (1.05%) SYSPRO
8 4 (0.84%) Databricks
8 4 (0.84%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.63%) ESRI
9 3 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.63%) Renesas
9 3 (0.63%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.63%) Veeam
10 2 (0.42%) IBM
10 2 (0.42%) OutSystems
11 1 (0.21%) Blue Coat
11 1 (0.21%) McAfee