Visual Studio Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 392 254
Rank change year-on-year +100 -138 -21
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 655 435 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.73% 1.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.85% 5.58% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 551 306 729
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,449 £70,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,450 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.83% +0.82% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,649 7,789 12,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.38% 13.06% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,589 4,394 7,613
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the UK excluding London

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +50 180 £54,000 -10.00% 30
South West +73 158 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Midlands +25 96 £45,000 -5.26% 27
North of England +34 86 £47,500 -5.00% 18
East of England +26 70 £35,500 -29.00% 4
North West +25 67 £45,625 -8.75% 13
West Midlands +6 58 £48,000 +1.05% 22
Scotland -44 45 £61,500 +40.57% 5
East Midlands +1 38 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Wales +19 14 £58,750 +30.56% 3
Yorkshire +66 12 £50,000 - 2
North East -5 7 £55,000 +29.41% 3
Northern Ireland +35 6 £42,500 +6.25%
Visual Studio
UK

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 98 (14.96%) Confluence
2 19 (2.90%) IIS
3 17 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) CMS
5 7 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.31%) Liferay
8 2 (0.31%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 34 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
2 13 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.37%) Shopify
4 5 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.31%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.15%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 206 (31.45%) Azure
2 111 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 41 (6.26%) AWS
5 39 (5.95%) GitHub
6 20 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (2.29%) SaaS
8 9 (1.37%) PaaS
9 8 (1.22%) Figma
9 8 (1.22%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.07%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.07%) Pulumi
11 6 (0.92%) Azure Functions
11 6 (0.92%) Serverless
12 5 (0.76%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.61%) npm
13 4 (0.61%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.21%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.14%) Modbus
3 12 (1.83%) Network Security
4 9 (1.37%) CTI
5 8 (1.22%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.07%) Firewall
7 6 (0.92%) RS-232
8 5 (0.76%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.61%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.61%) Internet
9 4 (0.61%) RS-485
9 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.46%) NAS
10 3 (0.46%) SAN
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.31%) DHCP
11 2 (0.31%) HTTP
11 2 (0.31%) Intranet
11 2 (0.31%) Multicast
11 2 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (28.09%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 37 (5.65%) Power BI
4 35 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (4.89%) MS Access
6 23 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.60%) MySQL
9 15 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.07%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.07%) SQLite
12 6 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.92%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.61%) Big Data
13 4 (0.61%) Redis
14 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 216 (32.98%) Git
2 124 (18.93%) JIRA
3 96 (14.66%) Bitbucket
4 71 (10.84%) Team Foundation Server
5 60 (9.16%) Sourcetree
6 46 (7.02%) Visual Studio Code
7 45 (6.87%) NUnit
8 34 (5.19%) Selenium
9 26 (3.97%) GitLab
10 23 (3.51%) Subversion
11 20 (3.05%) Postman
12 18 (2.75%) Eclipse
13 14 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 13 (1.98%) SoapUI
14 13 (1.98%) TeamCity
14 13 (1.98%) WebDriver
15 11 (1.68%) Cypress.io
15 11 (1.68%) Jasmine
16 10 (1.53%) Android Studio
16 10 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (18.02%) Social Skills
2 86 (13.13%) Games
3 83 (12.67%) Presentation Skills
4 73 (11.15%) Finance
5 40 (6.11%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.04%) Marketing
7 32 (4.89%) Electronics
8 31 (4.73%) Retail
9 28 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (3.05%) Law
10 20 (3.05%) Public Sector
11 18 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.14%) Automotive
12 14 (2.14%) Back Office
13 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.83%) Police
15 11 (1.68%) Legal
15 11 (1.68%) Publishing
16 9 (1.37%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 416 (63.51%) Developer
2 150 (22.90%) .NET Developer
3 115 (17.56%) Senior
4 101 (15.42%) Software Engineer
5 99 (15.11%) C# Developer
6 93 (14.20%) Software Developer
7 83 (12.67%) 3D Developer
7 83 (12.67%) Games Developer
7 83 (12.67%) Unity 3D Developer
8 68 (10.38%) Senior Developer
9 66 (10.08%) C# .NET Developer
10 61 (9.31%) Lead
11 50 (7.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 44 (6.72%) Architect
13 37 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 36 (5.50%) Applications Developer
15 34 (5.19%) .NET Software Developer
16 33 (5.04%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 30 (4.58%) C# Software Developer
17 30 (4.58%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (62.44%) .NET
2 198 (30.23%) HTML
3 162 (24.73%) .NET Framework
4 147 (22.44%) CSS
5 138 (21.07%) ASP.NET
6 83 (12.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 78 (11.91%) XML
8 72 (10.99%) AngularJS
8 72 (10.99%) Web Services
9 69 (10.53%) .NET Core
10 68 (10.38%) JSON
11 66 (10.08%) jQuery
12 57 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
12 57 (8.70%) WPF
13 56 (8.55%) HTML5
14 53 (8.09%) RESTful
15 45 (6.87%) React
16 41 (6.26%) Entity Framework
16 41 (6.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 40 (6.11%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.82%) Virtual Reality
2 27 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.75%) IoT
5 16 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.44%) Robotics
6 14 (2.14%) FMCG
7 13 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.83%) Digital Media
9 11 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.68%) GNSS
9 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.37%) EPoS
11 7 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.92%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 113 (17.25%) Windows
2 63 (9.62%) Linux
3 22 (3.36%) Android
4 15 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.46%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.31%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.31%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.31%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.15%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.15%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (42.29%) Software Engineering
2 250 (38.17%) Agile
3 224 (34.20%) DevOps
4 136 (20.76%) Scrum
5 123 (18.78%) Design Patterns
6 110 (16.79%) UML
7 108 (16.49%) MVC
8 89 (13.59%) Use Case
9 86 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (11.15%) Unit Testing
11 71 (10.84%) Test Automation
12 66 (10.08%) Full Stack Development
12 66 (10.08%) Web Development
13 57 (8.70%) Software Testing
14 56 (8.55%) Multithreading
15 53 (8.09%) CI/CD
16 52 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
17 50 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
18 48 (7.33%) Computer Science
19 42 (6.41%) OO
Programming Languages
1 506 (77.25%) C#
2 281 (42.90%) SQL
3 200 (30.53%) JavaScript
4 117 (17.86%) C++
5 83 (12.67%) C
6 69 (10.53%) Java
7 60 (9.16%) T-SQL
8 52 (7.94%) Python
9 46 (7.02%) VB.NET
10 42 (6.41%) VB
11 35 (5.34%) TypeScript
12 27 (4.12%) PowerShell
13 19 (2.90%) Bash
14 17 (2.60%) Fortran
15 15 (2.29%) Assembly Language
15 15 (2.29%) Perl
16 10 (1.53%) Delphi
16 10 (1.53%) PHP
16 10 (1.53%) VBA
16 10 (1.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 204 (31.15%) Degree
2 134 (20.46%) Security Cleared
3 106 (16.18%) SC Cleared
4 86 (13.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.98%) HNC
7 5 (0.76%) ISEB
7 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.31%) HND
9 2 (0.31%) MCDST
9 2 (0.31%) MCITP
9 2 (0.31%) MCSA
9 2 (0.31%) MCSE
10 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.99%) QA
2 24 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 18 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.68%) PMO
5 7 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.76%) MISRA
6 5 (0.76%) TickIT
7 2 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) GDPR
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.60%) Docker
2 14 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.92%) Firmware
5 3 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.22%) Ansible
3 7 (1.07%) MIIS
3 7 (1.07%) Terraform
4 2 (0.31%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.31%) vRealize
5 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 330 (50.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.90%) SAP
3 17 (2.60%) Oracle
4 16 (2.44%) Xamarin
5 14 (2.14%) VMware
6 13 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.22%) DevExpress
7 8 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.07%) SYSPRO
9 6 (0.92%) Facebook
9 6 (0.92%) OutSystems
10 5 (0.76%) Renesas
11 4 (0.61%) Adobe
11 4 (0.61%) Databricks
12 3 (0.46%) Google
12 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.46%) Veeam
13 2 (0.31%) LogRhythm
13 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.31%) Talend