Visual Studio Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 55 102
Rank change year-on-year -47 +47 +2
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 1 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.052% 0.19% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.89% 1.89% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £34,500
25th Percentile £50,000 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -10.71%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 53 53 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.74% 10.08% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 44 49 151
10th Percentile £39,755 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,486 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £70,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,925 £71,800 £70,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +13.04% -11.54%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in Wales

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Wales region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
South Wales -37 1 £52,000 -
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft