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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 294 408
Rank change year-on-year -88 +114 -146
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 202 661 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.89% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.02% 9.94% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 187 547 287
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £81,250 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £74,069
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +1.82%

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 4,023 6,653 7,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.32% 8.99% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 4,542 4,308
10th Percentile £37,574 £33,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,780 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £59,526 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.16% -8.42% +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 29 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 29 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 -15 70 £70,000 +27.27% 46
South West +13 39 £46,500 -4.62% 13
Scotland +119 38 £55,000 -10.57% 12
Midlands -15 26 £55,000 +22.22% 22
East of England -11 16 £45,000 +26.76% 13
East Midlands +7 14 £52,500 +20.00% 8
West Midlands +6 12 £60,750 +26.56% 14
North of England -27 12 £55,000 +15.79% 30
Yorkshire +52 6 £85,253 +70.51% 6
North West -53 4 £42,500 -8.11% 19
North East +41 2 £55,000 - 5
Wales +33 1 - - 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 13 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.98%) CMS
2 4 (1.98%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.99%) Confluence
4 2 (0.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.50%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.50%) InVision
2 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Sage 200
1 13 (6.44%) Sage 50
2 9 (4.46%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (43.56%) Azure
2 51 (25.25%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (16.83%) Azure Service Bus
4 33 (16.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 30 (14.85%) SonarCloud
6 27 (13.37%) Power Platform
7 26 (12.87%) GitHub
8 10 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.96%) AWS
9 8 (3.96%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.96%) Serverless
10 7 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.97%) SaaS
12 5 (2.48%) Figma
13 4 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.98%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
14 3 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) 5G
1 4 (1.98%) SD-WAN
1 4 (1.98%) WAN
1 4 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (31.19%) SQL Server
2 30 (14.85%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (11.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (10.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (9.41%) Power BI
6 13 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.95%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.96%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.97%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.98%) Biml
10 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.49%) MySQL
12 1 (0.50%) Airbyte
12 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (26.73%) Git
2 44 (21.78%) JIRA
3 35 (17.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 32 (15.84%) MSBuild
4 32 (15.84%) Octopus Deploy
5 18 (8.91%) Jenkins
6 11 (5.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (4.46%) Postman
8 7 (3.47%) Selenium
9 6 (2.97%) GitLab
10 5 (2.48%) Fiddler
10 5 (2.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (2.48%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.99%) NUnit
11 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.99%) Vite
11 2 (0.99%) webpack
12 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.50%) PyCharm
General
1 44 (21.78%) Retail
2 28 (13.86%) Finance
3 27 (13.37%) Avionics
4 23 (11.39%) Social Skills
5 17 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.42%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.97%) Marketing
8 4 (1.98%) Banking
8 4 (1.98%) Law
9 3 (1.49%) Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) Advertising
10 2 (0.99%) Back Office
10 2 (0.99%) Police
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) iGaming
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (42.57%) Developer
2 61 (30.20%) Senior
3 43 (21.29%) Architect
4 33 (16.34%) .NET Developer
5 30 (14.85%) Technical Architect
6 23 (11.39%) Software Engineer
7 22 (10.89%) C# Developer
8 17 (8.42%) C# .NET Developer
8 17 (8.42%) Portal Developer
9 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.44%) .NET Software Developer
11 12 (5.94%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Java Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.46%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.46%) Senior Software Architect
13 9 (4.46%) Senior Systems Architect
13 9 (4.46%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (62.87%) .NET
2 71 (35.15%) CSS
3 66 (32.67%) HTML
4 60 (29.70%) .NET Framework
5 59 (29.21%) JSON
6 57 (28.22%) ASP.NET
7 52 (25.74%) .NET Core
7 52 (25.74%) XML
8 40 (19.80%) REST
9 39 (19.31%) Bootstrap
10 30 (14.85%) gRPC
11 27 (13.37%) React
12 19 (9.41%) HTML5
13 18 (8.91%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (8.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (8.42%) jQuery
15 16 (7.92%) React Native
16 14 (6.93%) AngularJS
17 8 (3.96%) Entity Framework
18 7 (3.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.42%) Mobile App
2 11 (5.45%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.47%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.97%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.97%) Replication
4 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.98%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.98%) GNSS
5 4 (1.98%) Self-Driving Car
5 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.49%) EPoS
6 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.50%) FPGA
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
8 1 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.34%) Linux
2 17 (8.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.63%) DevOps
2 57 (28.22%) Agile
3 54 (26.73%) MVC
4 46 (22.77%) Microservices
5 45 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (20.79%) Software Engineering
7 38 (18.81%) Event-Driven
7 38 (18.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 37 (18.32%) Design Patterns
9 36 (17.82%) Mathematics
10 32 (15.84%) User Experience
11 31 (15.35%) API Integration
12 30 (14.85%) CI/CD
12 30 (14.85%) Code Quality
12 30 (14.85%) Data Encryption
12 30 (14.85%) Performance Optimisation
12 30 (14.85%) Performance Testing
12 30 (14.85%) Physics
12 30 (14.85%) UX Design
13 27 (13.37%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (56.44%) C#
2 108 (53.47%) SQL
3 76 (37.62%) JavaScript
4 47 (23.27%) C
5 30 (14.85%) C++
6 21 (10.40%) Java
7 11 (5.45%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.96%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.98%) X++
10 3 (1.49%) Delphi
10 3 (1.49%) Python
11 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) Fortran
12 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.50%) PHP
12 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (24.26%) Degree
2 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.97%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.50%) ACCA
5 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.50%) PhD
5 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) GDPR
2 6 (2.97%) QA
3 4 (1.98%) PMO
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (19.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 90 (44.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.44%) Sage
3 4 (1.98%) Intel
4 3 (1.49%) Borland
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle
5 2 (0.99%) Freshdesk
5 2 (0.99%) Optimizely
5 2 (0.99%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe
6 1 (0.50%) Cognos
6 1 (0.50%) Facebook
6 1 (0.50%) Genesys
6 1 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.50%) Telerik