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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 187 153
Rank change year-on-year +22 -34 +94
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 8 35 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.58% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.15% 9.97% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 40
10th Percentile £49,713 £40,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,688 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - £58,750 £70,250
England median annual salary £68,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.33% +9.09%

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 254 351 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.81% 5.82% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 168 173 304
10th Percentile £32,388 £34,250 £36,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +10.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +2.36%

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

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
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 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 17 September 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 +11 6 £85,000 +54.55%
Warwickshire +39 1 - - 1
Coventry +12 1 £47,500 +21.79%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Police
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) DOM
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) WPF
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Impact Assessments
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (12.50%) MVVM
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) C
2 4 (50.00%) X++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) COBIT
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Prism
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle