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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 274 302
Rank change year-on-year -112 +28 +39
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 32 153 318
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 1.05% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.34% 8.06% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28 131 282
10th Percentile £42,350 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,302 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £55,625 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,075 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -9.42%

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 1,366 1,899 3,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.38% 13.07% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 887 1,242 2,980
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 14 May 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 9 (28.13%) GitHub
5 8 (25.00%) Figma
5 8 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (25.00%) SaaS
6 4 (12.50%) Azure API Management
6 4 (12.50%) Azure App Service
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (12.50%) PowerApps
7 2 (6.25%) AWS
7 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.13%) ChatGPT
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Bluetooth
1 2 (6.25%) RFID
1 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (6.25%) Wireless
2 1 (3.13%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Power BI
1 8 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.25%) Power Query
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) NUnit
1 4 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Jasmine
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) JMeter
2 2 (6.25%) Postman
2 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
2 2 (6.25%) Serenity BDD
2 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (6.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.13%) dotTrace
3 1 (3.13%) GDB
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) WinDbg
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Publishing
3 2 (6.25%) Electronics
3 2 (6.25%) Law
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Designer
3 6 (18.75%) UX Designer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Blazor Developer
6 2 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (62.50%) .NET
2 8 (25.00%) Blazor
2 8 (25.00%) Material Design
2 8 (25.00%) WebAssembly
3 7 (21.88%) REST
4 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
5 4 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
6 2 (6.25%) CSS
6 2 (6.25%) HTML
6 2 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (6.25%) JSON
6 2 (6.25%) Nightwatchjs
6 2 (6.25%) OpenID
6 2 (6.25%) RESTful
6 2 (6.25%) Web Services
6 2 (6.25%) WPF
7 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (6.25%) FPGA
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Code
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.25%) PCIe
2 2 (6.25%) Photography
2 2 (6.25%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) AI
3 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.00%) CRM
3 8 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 8 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 8 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 8 (25.00%) Microservices
3 8 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 8 (25.00%) User Experience
3 8 (25.00%) User Stories
3 8 (25.00%) UX Design
3 8 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 7 (21.88%) Project Management
5 6 (18.75%) Agile
5 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.63%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) C#
2 12 (37.50%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Bicep
4 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) DBS Check
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 8 (25.00%) WCAG
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) MIIS
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) Infragistics
2 1 (3.13%) Perforce