Visual Studio Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Visual Studio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Visual Studio over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 329 383
Rank change year-on-year -24 +54 -23
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 123 264 241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.80% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.01% 7.62% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 109 230 202
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £40,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £72,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +1.82%

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 2,456 3,463 5,264
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.67% 10.51% 15.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 2,524 3,913
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,061
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%

Visual Studio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Visual Studio
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Visual Studio.

Visual Studio salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Visual Studio salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) CMS
3 1 (0.81%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Trello
3 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.81%) InVision
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (5.69%) Sage 200
2 7 (5.69%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 69 (56.10%) Azure
2 36 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (22.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 25 (20.33%) Power Platform
5 21 (17.07%) Azure Service Bus
5 21 (17.07%) SonarCloud
6 18 (14.63%) GitHub
7 14 (11.38%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (8.13%) AWS
10 8 (6.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (4.88%) SaaS
13 5 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
14 4 (3.25%) GCP
14 4 (3.25%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (3.25%) Google Sheets
14 4 (3.25%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) 5G
1 4 (3.25%) HTTPS
1 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.25%) WAN
1 4 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.81%) RS-232
2 1 (0.81%) RS-422
2 1 (0.81%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (37.40%) SQL Server
2 27 (21.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 21 (17.07%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (9.76%) Power BI
4 12 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (8.13%) Relational Database
6 9 (7.32%) DB2
7 7 (5.69%) MySQL
8 5 (4.07%) Power Query
9 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.25%) Biml
9 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.63%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.81%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (26.02%) Git
2 25 (20.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 21 (17.07%) MSBuild
3 21 (17.07%) Octopus Deploy
4 15 (12.20%) JIRA
5 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (3.25%) WiX
8 3 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.81%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.81%) GitLab
9 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.81%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 36 (29.27%) Retail
2 32 (26.02%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.58%) Finance
4 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.50%) Marketing
7 7 (5.69%) Banking
8 4 (3.25%) Local Government
8 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.44%) Billing
9 3 (2.44%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Front Office
10 1 (0.81%) Games
10 1 (0.81%) iGaming
10 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (46.34%) Developer
2 37 (30.08%) Senior
3 29 (23.58%) Architect
4 23 (18.70%) C# Developer
5 22 (17.89%) .NET Developer
6 21 (17.07%) Technical Architect
7 16 (13.01%) Analyst
7 16 (13.01%) Software Engineer
8 14 (11.38%) Senior Developer
9 13 (10.57%) C# .NET Developer
10 11 (8.94%) .NET Software Developer
10 11 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (8.13%) Java Developer
11 10 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (6.50%) Applications Support
13 8 (6.50%) Applications Support Analyst
13 8 (6.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (66.67%) .NET
2 40 (32.52%) ASP.NET
2 40 (32.52%) HTML
3 39 (31.71%) .NET Framework
3 39 (31.71%) CSS
4 29 (23.58%) REST
5 28 (22.76%) JSON
6 23 (18.70%) Bootstrap
7 22 (17.89%) XML
8 21 (17.07%) gRPC
9 13 (10.57%) .NET Core
10 10 (8.13%) HTML5
11 9 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (6.50%) AngularJS
13 7 (5.69%) jQuery
13 7 (5.69%) MFC
13 7 (5.69%) React Native
13 7 (5.69%) SOAP
14 6 (4.88%) Blazor
14 6 (4.88%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (8.13%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.25%) GNSS
6 4 (3.25%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.25%) Self-Driving Car
6 4 (3.25%) Social Media
6 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.25%) Wiki
7 1 (0.81%) CUDA
7 1 (0.81%) Derivative
7 1 (0.81%) EPoS
7 1 (0.81%) FPGA
7 1 (0.81%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.58%) Windows
2 6 (4.88%) Linux
3 4 (3.25%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.59%) DevOps
2 44 (35.77%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (29.27%) MVC
4 35 (28.46%) Agile
5 29 (23.58%) Microservices
6 27 (21.95%) Design Patterns
6 27 (21.95%) Software Engineering
7 25 (20.33%) API Integration
7 25 (20.33%) Computer Science
8 23 (18.70%) Event-Driven
8 23 (18.70%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (17.89%) Code Quality
10 21 (17.07%) Data Encryption
10 21 (17.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 21 (17.07%) Performance Optimisation
10 21 (17.07%) Performance Testing
11 17 (13.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (13.82%) Mentoring
12 16 (13.01%) CI/CD
13 15 (12.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (76.42%) C#
2 70 (56.91%) SQL
3 44 (35.77%) JavaScript
4 27 (21.95%) C++
5 20 (16.26%) T-SQL
6 18 (14.63%) C
7 15 (12.20%) Java
8 10 (8.13%) VB.NET
9 9 (7.32%) PL/SQL
10 6 (4.88%) X++
11 4 (3.25%) Bash
11 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.44%) Python
13 1 (0.81%) Delphi
13 1 (0.81%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (20.33%) Degree
2 6 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 6 (4.88%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.07%) GDPR
2 4 (3.25%) PMO
3 2 (1.63%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (18.70%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.81%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.32%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.69%) Sage
3 7 (5.69%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.25%) Google
4 4 (3.25%) Intel
5 3 (2.44%) Aderant
6 2 (1.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.81%) Borland
7 1 (0.81%) Telerik