Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 488 360
Rank change year-on-year -185 -128 +77
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 75 196 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.40% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.72% 4.66% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 56 176 593
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,706 £44,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,368 4,207 8,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.44% 8.58% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,906 2,665 6,126
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in the UK

Visual Studio
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 July 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
England -157 70 £52,500 -19.23% 51
UK excluding London -164 41 £50,000 -9.09% 45
Work from Home -103 35 £52,500 -19.23% 15
London -30 26 £83,000 +18.57% 11
Midlands -38 14 £47,500 -19.49% 7
South East -82 9 £50,000 -28.57% 21
East Midlands -31 8 £36,250 -38.30% 4
North of England -39 8 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands -22 6 £52,500 -11.02% 3
East of England -24 5 £45,000 - 7
North West -7 4 £59,000 +27.57% 3
Yorkshire -29 4 £49,500 -31.84% 1
South West -73 3 £35,000 -54.84% 4
Wales -46 1 £52,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (49.33%) Azure
2 31 (41.33%) Power Platform
3 16 (21.33%) Power Automate
4 15 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.67%) dbt
5 8 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (10.67%) GitHub
6 6 (8.00%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.67%) AWS
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.00%) SaaS
9 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.67%) Figma
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.67%) Serverless
10 1 (1.33%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.67%) HTTP
1 2 (2.67%) RFID
1 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.67%) Wireless
2 1 (1.33%) ATM
2 1 (1.33%) LTE
2 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (41.33%) SQL Server
2 25 (33.33%) Power BI
3 17 (22.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (18.67%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (13.33%) Metabase
6 7 (9.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.67%) Power Query
8 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.33%) Redis
8 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (26.67%) Git
2 8 (10.67%) JIRA
3 5 (6.67%) Selenium
4 4 (5.33%) NUnit
4 4 (5.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (5.33%) WinDbg
5 3 (4.00%) JMeter
5 3 (4.00%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.67%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.67%) Postman
6 2 (2.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.67%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.67%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.33%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.33%) dotTrace
7 1 (1.33%) GDB
7 1 (1.33%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 13 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Electronics
5 3 (4.00%) Law
5 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Publishing
5 3 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.33%) Aviation
6 1 (1.33%) Back Office
6 1 (1.33%) Games
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Developer
2 15 (20.00%) Senior
3 13 (17.33%) Analyst
3 13 (17.33%) Software Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Financial Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) IT Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) IT Support
4 10 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Systems Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Systems Support
4 10 (13.33%) Systems Support Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) Software Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.33%) C++ Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (37.33%) .NET
2 9 (12.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (9.33%) CSS
3 7 (9.33%) HTML
3 7 (9.33%) REST
3 7 (9.33%) STL
4 6 (8.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (8.00%) React
4 6 (8.00%) WinForms
5 5 (6.67%) JSON
6 4 (5.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (5.33%) WPF
6 4 (5.33%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (4.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.00%) Kafka
7 3 (4.00%) Node.js
7 3 (4.00%) RESTful
7 3 (4.00%) Web Services
8 2 (2.67%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Legacy Code
3 4 (5.33%) Replication
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) EPoS
5 2 (2.67%) FPGA
5 2 (2.67%) PCIe
5 2 (2.67%) Photography
5 2 (2.67%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Windows
2 5 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (30.67%) Agile
3 22 (29.33%) Software Engineering
4 21 (28.00%) DevOps
5 20 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (24.00%) CI/CD
8 16 (21.33%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (17.33%) Scrum
10 12 (16.00%) Data Management
11 11 (14.67%) Data Analysis
11 11 (14.67%) Project Management
12 9 (12.00%) CRM
12 9 (12.00%) Decision-Making
13 8 (10.67%) AI
13 8 (10.67%) Data Transformation
13 8 (10.67%) ERP
13 8 (10.67%) Facilities Management
13 8 (10.67%) Memory Management
13 8 (10.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 46 (61.33%) SQL
2 39 (52.00%) C#
3 17 (22.67%) C++
4 14 (18.67%) T-SQL
5 12 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (14.67%) Python
7 3 (4.00%) Bicep
7 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) C
8 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.33%) Ada
9 1 (1.33%) Delphi
9 1 (1.33%) Java
9 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.33%) VB
9 1 (1.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) MIIS
Vendors
1 34 (45.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) Solace
3 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.33%) Databricks
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) Infor
3 1 (1.33%) Veracode
3 1 (1.33%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.33%) Yahoo!