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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 356 352
Rank change year-on-year -75 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 29 82 163
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.50% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 5.23% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 28 74 137
10th Percentile £30,625 £42,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,400 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -6.25%

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 1,516 1,567 2,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.61% 9.46% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 997 1,756
10th Percentile £39,564 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.77% -9.69%
75th Percentile £74,987 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 20 August 2026.

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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.45%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Power Platform
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (24.14%) Power Automate
5 5 (17.24%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (13.79%) PowerApps
7 2 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (6.90%) AWS
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.45%) ChatGPT
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) ATM
1 1 (3.45%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (34.48%) Power BI
3 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
4 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.90%) Power Query
6 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Jasmine
3 2 (6.90%) NUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Selenium
3 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.45%) Claude Code
4 1 (3.45%) dotTrace
4 1 (3.45%) GDB
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.45%) WinDbg
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Publishing
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Law
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
1 8 (27.59%) Software Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Data Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Graduate
3 3 (10.34%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
4 2 (6.90%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Database Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Database Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Development Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET
2 5 (17.24%) React
3 4 (13.79%) CSS
3 4 (13.79%) HTML
3 4 (13.79%) JSON
4 3 (10.34%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
5 2 (6.90%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (6.90%) OpenID
5 2 (6.90%) Terraform
5 2 (6.90%) XML
6 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.45%) jQuery
6 1 (3.45%) LINQ
6 1 (3.45%) Node.js
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth
6 1 (3.45%) WPF
6 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
1 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (31.03%) Scrum
3 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Project Management
5 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) OWASP
6 6 (20.69%) Coaching
6 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
6 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.69%) Release Management
7 5 (17.24%) API Management
7 5 (17.24%) CRM
7 5 (17.24%) Mathematics
7 5 (17.24%) OOP
7 5 (17.24%) Physics
7 5 (17.24%) Software Architecture
8 4 (13.79%) AI
8 4 (13.79%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (82.76%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) C#
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 9 (31.03%) T-SQL
4 7 (24.14%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) Bicep
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.45%) Ada
6 1 (3.45%) C
6 1 (3.45%) Fortran
6 1 (3.45%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.90%) MIIS
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Intel
2 1 (3.45%) Yahoo!