Visual Studio Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 159 199
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 +5
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 11 12 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.40% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.05% 4.17% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 55
10th Percentile - £51,625 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,688 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +21.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £87,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,750 - £91,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 218 288 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.90% 9.56% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 161 203 417
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -9.23%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Visual Studio job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Birmingham - 7 £50,000 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £52,500 -
Walsall 0 1 £59,000 -2.88%
Staffordshire -3 1 £57,500 -32.35%
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) Figma
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub Copilot
1 7 (63.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Bluetooth
1 2 (18.18%) RFID
1 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (18.18%) Wireless
General
1 2 (18.18%) Electronics
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Designer
1 6 (54.55%) UX Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Blazor Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) UX Developer
3 1 (9.09%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) Blazor
2 7 (63.64%) Material Design
2 7 (63.64%) WebAssembly
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) OLE
4 1 (9.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (18.18%) FPGA
2 2 (18.18%) PCIe
2 2 (18.18%) Photography
2 2 (18.18%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (9.09%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) AI
1 7 (63.64%) CRM
1 7 (63.64%) Data Integration
1 7 (63.64%) Front End Development
1 7 (63.64%) Interaction Design
1 7 (63.64%) Responsive Web Design
1 7 (63.64%) User Experience
1 7 (63.64%) User Stories
1 7 (63.64%) UX Design
1 7 (63.64%) Wireframes
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Escalation Management
3 1 (9.09%) Logistics
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (9.09%) Supplier Management
3 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) Delphi
2 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) Accessibility
1 7 (63.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (18.18%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft