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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 304 329
Rank change year-on-year -98 +25 +17
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 36 127 271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.58% 7.37% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 34 112 237
10th Percentile £28,650 £40,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +22.64% -3.64%
75th Percentile £63,250 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.83%

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 1,396 1,724 3,490
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.67% 10.64% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 923 1,122 2,643
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +12.14% -7.26%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

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 5 July 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (19.44%) Power Automate
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (13.89%) PowerApps
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub
7 3 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (5.56%) AWS
8 2 (5.56%) Azure API Management
8 2 (5.56%) Azure App Service
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.56%) Figma
8 2 (5.56%) SaaS
9 1 (2.78%) ChatGPT
9 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Bluetooth
1 2 (5.56%) RFID
1 2 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (5.56%) Wireless
2 1 (2.78%) ATM
2 1 (2.78%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (27.78%) Power BI
3 9 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.56%) Power Query
6 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) NUnit
3 4 (11.11%) Selenium
4 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.56%) Jasmine
4 2 (5.56%) JMeter
4 2 (5.56%) Postman
4 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
4 2 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.78%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.78%) dotTrace
5 1 (2.78%) GDB
5 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.78%) WinDbg
General
1 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Law
2 3 (8.33%) Publishing
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Electronics
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Graduate
5 3 (8.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Database Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Development Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) .NET
2 6 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 6 (16.67%) REST
3 4 (11.11%) CSS
3 4 (11.11%) HTML
3 4 (11.11%) JSON
3 4 (11.11%) React
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
5 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (5.56%) Blazor
5 2 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (5.56%) Material Design
5 2 (5.56%) Nightwatchjs
5 2 (5.56%) OpenID
5 2 (5.56%) Web Services
5 2 (5.56%) WebAssembly
5 2 (5.56%) WPF
6 1 (2.78%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (5.56%) FPGA
1 2 (5.56%) Legacy Code
1 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.56%) PCIe
1 2 (5.56%) Photography
1 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.56%) Raspberry Pi
1 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) DevOps
3 11 (30.56%) Scrum
4 10 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (22.22%) Project Management
7 7 (19.44%) API Management
7 7 (19.44%) CRM
7 7 (19.44%) Microservices
7 7 (19.44%) OWASP
8 6 (16.67%) AI
8 6 (16.67%) Coaching
8 6 (16.67%) Release Management
9 5 (13.89%) Configuration Management
10 4 (11.11%) Change Management
10 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
10 4 (11.11%) OOP
10 4 (11.11%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) SQL
2 18 (50.00%) C#
3 10 (27.78%) T-SQL
4 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.89%) C++
6 4 (11.11%) Bicep
7 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.78%) Ada
8 1 (2.78%) C
8 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.33%) WCAG
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) MIIS
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) Databricks
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) Yahoo!