Visual Studio Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 194 202
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +26
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 12 63 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.81% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.57% 11.71% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10 57 39
10th Percentile £52,325 £39,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £40,000 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.26% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile - £87,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -12.28% +3.64%

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 336 538 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.18% 6.92% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 184 438 369
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,125 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the West Midlands

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the West Midlands

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the West Midlands

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 28 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
Staffordshire +23 6 £85,000 +78.95% 10
Warwickshire -2 2 - - 1
Walsall - 2 £60,750 -
Solihull +9 1 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
2 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Police
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Delphi Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Business Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (25.00%) JSON
2 3 (25.00%) WinForms
3 2 (16.67%) ADO
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) EPoS
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (25.00%) MVC
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Web Development
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) CRM
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) X++
3 3 (25.00%) Delphi
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Borland
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Cognos
3 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft