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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 316 329
Rank change year-on-year -95 +13 +44
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 34 122 264
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.40% 7.06% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34 108 230
10th Percentile £28,650 £42,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £63,250 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -10.71%

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 1,415 1,729 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.62% 10.46% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,131 2,524
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +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 12 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 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
1 16 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (20.59%) Power Automate
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (14.71%) PowerApps
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (5.88%) AWS
7 2 (5.88%) Figma
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.94%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Bluetooth
1 2 (5.88%) RFID
1 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (5.88%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) ATM
2 1 (2.94%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (38.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (29.41%) Power BI
3 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
4 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.88%) Power Query
6 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) JIRA
3 4 (11.76%) NUnit
3 4 (11.76%) Selenium
4 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.88%) Jasmine
4 2 (5.88%) JMeter
4 2 (5.88%) Postman
4 2 (5.88%) REST Assured
4 2 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.94%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.94%) dotTrace
5 1 (2.94%) GDB
5 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.94%) WinDbg
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Law
2 3 (8.82%) Publishing
3 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Electronics
3 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Graduate
5 3 (8.82%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Database Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Development Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET
2 6 (17.65%) REST
3 4 (11.76%) CSS
3 4 (11.76%) HTML
3 4 (11.76%) JSON
3 4 (11.76%) React
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.88%) Blazor
5 2 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (5.88%) Material Design
5 2 (5.88%) Nightwatchjs
5 2 (5.88%) OpenID
5 2 (5.88%) Web Services
5 2 (5.88%) WebAssembly
5 2 (5.88%) WPF
6 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (2.94%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (5.88%) FPGA
1 2 (5.88%) Legacy Code
1 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.88%) PCIe
1 2 (5.88%) Photography
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.88%) Raspberry Pi
1 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps
2 11 (32.35%) Scrum
3 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
5 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (23.53%) Project Management
6 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
6 7 (20.59%) CRM
6 7 (20.59%) OWASP
7 6 (17.65%) AI
7 6 (17.65%) Coaching
7 6 (17.65%) Release Management
8 5 (14.71%) API Management
8 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 5 (14.71%) Microservices
9 4 (11.76%) Change Management
9 4 (11.76%) Mathematics
9 4 (11.76%) OOP
9 4 (11.76%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) C#
3 10 (29.41%) T-SQL
4 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) C++
6 2 (5.88%) Bicep
6 2 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.94%) Ada
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 6 (17.65%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.82%) WCAG
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
1 2 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.88%) MIIS
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.94%) Databricks
2 1 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Yahoo!