Visual Studio Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 387 253
Rank change year-on-year +96 -134 -20
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 657 461 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 0.75% 1.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.77% 5.72% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 560 330 735
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,728 8,054 12,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.56% 13.12% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,638 4,535 7,645
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £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 £70,000 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +43 173 £54,000 -5.26% 31
South West +68 162 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Midlands +33 99 £45,000 -5.26% 31
North of England +35 86 £47,500 -5.00% 18
East of England +43 71 £35,500 -29.00% 5
North West +32 67 £45,625 -8.75% 14
West Midlands +14 60 £46,715 -1.65% 24
Scotland -54 46 £61,500 +40.57% 8
East Midlands +6 39 £40,000 -5.88% 7
Wales +16 14 £58,750 +30.56%
Yorkshire +69 12 £50,000 - 4
North East -3 7 £55,000 +29.41%
Northern Ireland +30 6 £42,500 +6.25%
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
1 103 (15.68%) Confluence
2 19 (2.89%) IIS
3 17 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.52%) CMS
5 7 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.30%) Liferay
8 2 (0.30%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 33 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
2 13 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.52%) Shopify
4 5 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.30%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Scribe Insight
7 1 (0.15%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 207 (31.51%) Azure
2 110 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (7.61%) Power Platform
4 42 (6.39%) AWS
5 39 (5.94%) GitHub
6 21 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (2.28%) SaaS
8 10 (1.52%) PaaS
9 8 (1.22%) Figma
9 8 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.07%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.07%) Pulumi
11 6 (0.91%) Azure Functions
11 6 (0.91%) Serverless
12 5 (0.76%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.76%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.61%) npm
13 4 (0.61%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.04%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.13%) Modbus
3 11 (1.67%) Network Security
4 9 (1.37%) CTI
5 8 (1.22%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.07%) Firewall
7 6 (0.91%) RS-232
8 4 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.61%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.61%) Internet
8 4 (0.61%) RS-485
8 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.46%) NAS
9 3 (0.46%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.30%) DHCP
10 2 (0.30%) HTTP
10 2 (0.30%) Intranet
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (28.16%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 36 (5.48%) Power BI
4 35 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (4.87%) MS Access
6 23 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.59%) MySQL
9 15 (2.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (1.67%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.52%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.07%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.07%) SQLite
13 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
15 4 (0.61%) Big Data
15 4 (0.61%) Redis
16 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 217 (33.03%) Git
2 129 (19.63%) JIRA
3 101 (15.37%) Bitbucket
4 72 (10.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 60 (9.13%) Sourcetree
6 45 (6.85%) NUnit
6 45 (6.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 33 (5.02%) Selenium
8 23 (3.50%) GitLab
8 23 (3.50%) Subversion
9 21 (3.20%) Postman
10 18 (2.74%) Eclipse
11 14 (2.13%) SoapUI
11 14 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 13 (1.98%) TeamCity
12 13 (1.98%) WebDriver
13 11 (1.67%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.52%) Android Studio
14 10 (1.52%) Jasmine
14 10 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.85%) Games
3 88 (13.39%) Presentation Skills
4 73 (11.11%) Finance
5 40 (6.09%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.02%) Marketing
7 32 (4.87%) Electronics
8 31 (4.72%) Retail
9 28 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (3.04%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.74%) Law
13 15 (2.28%) Automotive
14 14 (2.13%) Back Office
15 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.83%) Police
16 12 (1.83%) Publishing
17 11 (1.67%) Legal
18 8 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 422 (64.23%) Developer
2 150 (22.83%) .NET Developer
3 112 (17.05%) Senior
4 99 (15.07%) C# Developer
4 99 (15.07%) Software Engineer
5 93 (14.16%) Software Developer
6 88 (13.39%) 3D Developer
6 88 (13.39%) Games Developer
6 88 (13.39%) Unity 3D Developer
7 68 (10.35%) Senior Developer
8 65 (9.89%) C# .NET Developer
9 62 (9.44%) Lead
10 52 (7.91%) Full Stack Developer
11 42 (6.39%) Architect
12 37 (5.63%) Applications Developer
13 34 (5.18%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 34 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (5.02%) .NET Software Developer
15 30 (4.57%) Lead Developer
15 30 (4.57%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (62.10%) .NET
2 202 (30.75%) HTML
3 165 (25.11%) .NET Framework
4 148 (22.53%) CSS
5 140 (21.31%) ASP.NET
6 88 (13.39%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 77 (11.72%) XML
8 75 (11.42%) Web Services
9 71 (10.81%) AngularJS
10 70 (10.65%) .NET Core
11 69 (10.50%) JSON
12 67 (10.20%) jQuery
13 58 (8.83%) WPF
14 57 (8.68%) ASP.NET Web API
14 57 (8.68%) HTML5
15 52 (7.91%) RESTful
16 47 (7.15%) React
17 42 (6.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 42 (6.39%) WinForms
18 41 (6.24%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.55%) Virtual Reality
2 27 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.74%) IoT
5 16 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.44%) Robotics
6 14 (2.13%) FMCG
6 14 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.83%) Digital Media
8 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.52%) GNSS
11 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.37%) EPoS
12 7 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 4 (0.61%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 113 (17.20%) Windows
2 62 (9.44%) Linux
3 22 (3.35%) Android
4 15 (2.28%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.46%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.15%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (42.47%) Software Engineering
2 243 (36.99%) Agile
3 222 (33.79%) DevOps
4 140 (21.31%) Scrum
5 128 (19.48%) Design Patterns
6 115 (17.50%) UML
7 112 (17.05%) MVC
8 94 (14.31%) Use Case
9 83 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (11.11%) Unit Testing
11 70 (10.65%) Test Automation
12 69 (10.50%) Web Development
13 67 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
14 55 (8.37%) Multithreading
14 55 (8.37%) Software Testing
15 52 (7.91%) Continuous Integration
16 51 (7.76%) CI/CD
17 48 (7.31%) Business Intelligence
18 44 (6.70%) Computer Science
19 42 (6.39%) OO
Programming Languages
1 509 (77.47%) C#
2 284 (43.23%) SQL
3 203 (30.90%) JavaScript
4 113 (17.20%) C++
5 83 (12.63%) C
6 70 (10.65%) Java
7 61 (9.28%) T-SQL
8 49 (7.46%) Python
9 45 (6.85%) VB.NET
10 43 (6.54%) VB
11 36 (5.48%) TypeScript
12 24 (3.65%) PowerShell
13 18 (2.74%) Bash
14 15 (2.28%) Assembly Language
15 14 (2.13%) Fortran
15 14 (2.13%) Perl
16 11 (1.67%) Delphi
16 11 (1.67%) PHP
17 10 (1.52%) VBA
17 10 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 205 (31.20%) Degree
2 134 (20.40%) Security Cleared
3 109 (16.59%) SC Cleared
4 91 (13.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.13%) HNC
7 5 (0.76%) ISEB
7 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.30%) HND
9 2 (0.30%) MCDST
9 2 (0.30%) MCITP
9 2 (0.30%) MCSA
9 2 (0.30%) MCSE
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.26%) QA
2 29 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 18 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.52%) PMO
5 7 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.76%) MISRA
6 5 (0.76%) TickIT
7 2 (0.30%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.59%) Docker
2 13 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.91%) Firmware
5 3 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.07%) MIIS
2 7 (1.07%) Terraform
3 5 (0.76%) Ansible
4 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.30%) vRealize
5 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 333 (50.68%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.89%) SAP
3 17 (2.59%) Oracle
4 16 (2.44%) Xamarin
5 13 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 13 (1.98%) VMware
6 8 (1.22%) DevExpress
6 8 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.07%) SYSPRO
8 6 (0.91%) Facebook
8 6 (0.91%) OutSystems
9 5 (0.76%) Renesas
10 4 (0.61%) Adobe
10 4 (0.61%) Databricks
11 3 (0.46%) Google
11 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.46%) Veeam
12 2 (0.30%) Infor
12 2 (0.30%) Pega
12 2 (0.30%) ServiceNow