Hybrid/Remote Visual Studio Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Visual Studio skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 296 303
Rank change year-on-year -65 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 14 151 175
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.091% 0.86% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.17% 6.42% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11 123 148
10th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £74,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,195 2,352 3,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.80% 13.47% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 809 1,358 2,582
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,766 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,546 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -5.31% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Visual Studio and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Visual Studio
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Visual Studio.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Visual Studio

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Visual Studio salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Visual Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 8 (57.14%) GitHub
3 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (21.43%) Azure App Service
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (21.43%) GCP
5 3 (21.43%) Google Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Google Data Studio
5 3 (21.43%) Google Sheets
5 3 (21.43%) Google Tag Manager
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
5 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Power Query
3 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (42.86%) Git
3 3 (21.43%) JMeter
3 3 (21.43%) Postman
3 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (14.29%) MSBuild
4 2 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Retail
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) React Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior React Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Blazor Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 2 (14.29%) UX Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) CSS
2 6 (42.86%) HTML
3 5 (35.71%) .NET Core
3 5 (35.71%) JSON
4 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 4 (28.57%) React
4 4 (28.57%) RESTful
5 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
5 3 (21.43%) Node.js
5 3 (21.43%) Nuxt
5 3 (21.43%) OpenAPI
5 3 (21.43%) REST
5 3 (21.43%) Swagger
5 3 (21.43%) Vue
6 2 (14.29%) Blazor
6 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
6 2 (14.29%) gRPC
6 2 (14.29%) Material Design
6 2 (14.29%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 3 (21.43%) Social Media
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Front End Development
2 6 (42.86%) Kanban
2 6 (42.86%) Scrum
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven
3 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Segmentation Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 11 (78.57%) C#
3 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
1 5 (35.71%) WCAG
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 3 (21.43%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Mercator
3 1 (7.14%) Infragistics
3 1 (7.14%) IONA
3 1 (7.14%) Perforce