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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 280 280
Rank change year-on-year -77 0 +24
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 24 158 274
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.97% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.87% 7.08% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17 125 243
10th Percentile £42,624 £31,250 £36,700
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -7.89%
75th Percentile £52,500 £81,250 £64,875
90th Percentile £71,500 £83,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%

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 1,281 2,231 3,592
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.10% 13.76% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 822 1,257 3,044
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,372
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,796 £60,781
% change year-on-year -1.31% +0.02% -6.49%

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 31 January 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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) GitHub
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) SaaS
4 8 (33.33%) Figma
4 8 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (25.00%) Azure App Service
5 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (20.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (16.67%) Azure API Management
8 3 (12.50%) GCP
8 3 (12.50%) Google Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (12.50%) Google Sheets
8 3 (12.50%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (12.50%) PaaS
8 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 3 (12.50%) Power Query
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) JMeter
3 4 (16.67%) Postman
3 4 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.33%) NUnit
4 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 2 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
4 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Designer
2 6 (25.00%) UX Designer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Blazor Developer
6 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Database Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Database Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) SEO Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) .NET
2 8 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 8 (33.33%) Blazor
2 8 (33.33%) Material Design
2 8 (33.33%) WebAssembly
3 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (12.50%) CSS
4 3 (12.50%) HTML
4 3 (12.50%) JSON
4 3 (12.50%) React
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
5 2 (8.33%) Nightwatchjs
5 2 (8.33%) Nuxt
5 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (8.33%) Swagger
5 2 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Social Media
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Front End Development
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (33.33%) AI
3 8 (33.33%) CRM
3 8 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 8 (33.33%) Interaction Design
3 8 (33.33%) Microservices
3 8 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 8 (33.33%) User Experience
3 8 (33.33%) User Stories
3 8 (33.33%) UX Design
3 8 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 7 (29.17%) Analytics
4 7 (29.17%) Scrum
5 6 (25.00%) API Development
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.83%) Kanban
7 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) C#
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) Bicep
5 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 10 (41.67%) WCAG
3 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Mercator
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Infragistics
4 1 (4.17%) IONA
4 1 (4.17%) Perforce