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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 290 370
Rank change year-on-year -44 +80 -116
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 240 653 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.93% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.19% 9.69% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 220 558 339
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,813 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,099
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.25% +0.18%

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 3,876 6,739 8,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.52% 9.58% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,666 4,643 4,561
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
South East +28 85 £65,000 +20.37% 46
Scotland +128 43 £55,000 -10.57% 14
South West -1 40 £46,500 -2.11% 12
Midlands +24 37 £53,688 +19.31% 23
West Midlands +13 20 £53,688 +16.89% 13
East Midlands +29 17 £52,500 +31.25% 10
North of England +17 17 £55,000 +15.79% 36
East of England +3 16 £45,000 +26.76% 11
Yorkshire +73 9 £57,500 +15.00% 11
North West -28 6 £52,500 +16.67% 24
North East +45 2 £55,000 - 1
Wales +34 2 £60,716 +3.35% 3
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 17 (7.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.25%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.25%) CMS
2 3 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.25%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.42%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.42%) InVision
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (7.08%) Sage 200
1 17 (7.08%) Sage 50
2 11 (4.58%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (46.67%) Azure
2 58 (24.17%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 39 (16.25%) Power Platform
5 38 (15.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 38 (15.83%) GitHub
6 35 (14.58%) SonarCloud
7 17 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 12 (5.00%) Serverless
10 11 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (3.75%) SaaS
12 8 (3.33%) AWS
12 8 (3.33%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.92%) Azure API Management
14 6 (2.50%) Figma
15 4 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.08%) Network Security
2 4 (1.67%) 5G
2 4 (1.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.67%) WAN
2 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (32.08%) SQL Server
2 35 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (11.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (10.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (10.00%) Power BI
6 14 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (5.42%) Data Lake
8 12 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.17%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.33%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.67%) Biml
12 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.25%) MySQL
13 3 (1.25%) SQLite
14 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.42%) GIS
14 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (25.83%) Git
2 47 (19.58%) JIRA
3 40 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 38 (15.83%) MSBuild
5 35 (14.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (9.17%) Jenkins
7 18 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (3.75%) Postman
9 8 (3.33%) Selenium
10 5 (2.08%) Fiddler
10 5 (2.08%) GitLab
10 5 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (2.08%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.25%) NUnit
11 3 (1.25%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.25%) webpack
12 1 (0.42%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.42%) git-flow
12 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 47 (19.58%) Retail
2 30 (12.50%) Finance
2 30 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.25%) Avionics
4 25 (10.42%) Manufacturing
5 19 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.00%) Law
7 9 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.92%) Automotive
8 7 (2.92%) Marketing
9 4 (1.67%) Banking
9 4 (1.67%) Electronics
10 3 (1.25%) Police
11 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (46.25%) Developer
2 69 (28.75%) Senior
3 51 (21.25%) Architect
4 41 (17.08%) .NET Developer
5 35 (14.58%) Technical Architect
6 29 (12.08%) Software Engineer
7 27 (11.25%) C# Developer
8 21 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (8.75%) Portal Developer
9 19 (7.92%) C# .NET Developer
10 17 (7.08%) .NET Software Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 12 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (4.58%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 10 (4.17%) Java Developer
14 10 (4.17%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.17%) Senior Software Architect
14 10 (4.17%) Software Architect
14 10 (4.17%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (67.50%) .NET
2 89 (37.08%) CSS
3 82 (34.17%) HTML
4 73 (30.42%) .NET Framework
5 72 (30.00%) JSON
6 69 (28.75%) ASP.NET
7 63 (26.25%) .NET Core
8 62 (25.83%) XML
9 46 (19.17%) REST
10 44 (18.33%) Bootstrap
11 36 (15.00%) React
12 35 (14.58%) gRPC
13 28 (11.67%) HTML5
14 23 (9.58%) ASP.NET MVC
15 21 (8.75%) jQuery
16 20 (8.33%) React Native
17 19 (7.92%) ASP.NET Web API
18 14 (5.83%) AngularJS
19 11 (4.58%) Swagger
20 10 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.75%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.42%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.08%) Replication
6 5 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.67%) GNSS
7 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.25%) EPoS
9 2 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.83%) NHS
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.33%) Linux
2 15 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.08%) DevOps
2 73 (30.42%) Agile
3 67 (27.92%) MVC
4 61 (25.42%) Microservices
5 52 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (19.58%) Software Engineering
7 45 (18.75%) Design Patterns
8 43 (17.92%) Event-Driven
8 43 (17.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 38 (15.83%) API Integration
9 38 (15.83%) Mathematics
10 37 (15.42%) Performance Optimisation
11 36 (15.00%) Performance Testing
12 35 (14.58%) Code Quality
12 35 (14.58%) Data Encryption
13 34 (14.17%) User Experience
14 32 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (12.92%) CI/CD
16 30 (12.50%) Physics
16 30 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (63.33%) C#
2 136 (56.67%) SQL
3 94 (39.17%) JavaScript
4 48 (20.00%) C
5 32 (13.33%) C++
6 24 (10.00%) Java
7 16 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.00%) T-SQL
9 11 (4.58%) Python
10 7 (2.92%) X++
11 4 (1.67%) VB
12 3 (1.25%) Delphi
12 3 (1.25%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.25%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.42%) Fortran
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (20.42%) Degree
2 6 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.25%) HND
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) ACCA
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.58%) GDPR
2 10 (4.17%) QA
3 4 (1.67%) PMO
4 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.83%) HAZOP
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (19.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 108 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.08%) Sage
3 5 (2.08%) Google
4 4 (1.67%) Intel
4 4 (1.67%) Oracle
5 3 (1.25%) Borland
5 3 (1.25%) EMC
5 3 (1.25%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.25%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.83%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.42%) Adobe
7 1 (0.42%) Cognos
7 1 (0.42%) ESRI
7 1 (0.42%) Facebook
7 1 (0.42%) Genesys
7 1 (0.42%) IFS
7 1 (0.42%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.42%) Telerik