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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 407 262
Rank change year-on-year +113 -145 -31
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 661 413 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.71% 1.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.94% 5.38% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 547 287 719
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,563 £41,326
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,069 £71,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +13.40%

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 6,653 7,680 13,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.99% 13.22% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 4,308 7,644
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,375 £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 £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.42% +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 28 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 28 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 +66 194 £55,000 -8.33% 27
South West +71 150 £48,750 -2.50% 22
Midlands +21 103 £45,000 -5.26% 18
North of England +49 83 £47,500 -5.00% 18
East of England +16 68 £35,500 -29.00% 6
North West +30 64 £46,250 -7.50% 12
West Midlands +13 62 £48,000 +1.05% 13
Scotland -47 43 £61,500 +40.57% 8
East Midlands +10 41 £43,750 -14.63% 5
Wales +8 14 £58,750 +18.09% 2
Yorkshire +55 12 £50,000 - 2
North East -5 7 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £42,500 -
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 90 (13.62%) Confluence
2 19 (2.87%) IIS
3 17 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.82%) CMS
5 7 (1.06%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.30%) Liferay
7 2 (0.30%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 33 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
2 13 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.36%) Shopify
4 4 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.30%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.30%) 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 (31.16%) Azure
2 115 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (8.02%) Power Platform
4 42 (6.35%) AWS
5 36 (5.45%) GitHub
6 20 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (2.72%) SaaS
8 10 (1.51%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.36%) PaaS
9 9 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.21%) Figma
11 7 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.06%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.91%) Azure Functions
12 6 (0.91%) Serverless
13 5 (0.76%) npm
14 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.61%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.45%) Storyblok
15 3 (0.45%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.12%) Network Security
3 13 (1.97%) Modbus
4 9 (1.36%) CTI
5 8 (1.21%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.06%) Ethernet
6 7 (1.06%) Firewall
7 6 (0.91%) RS-232
8 4 (0.61%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.61%) Internet
8 4 (0.61%) RS-485
8 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.45%) NAS
9 3 (0.45%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.30%) DHCP
10 2 (0.30%) HTTP
10 2 (0.30%) Intranet
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (28.74%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 39 (5.90%) Power BI
4 35 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (4.84%) MS Access
6 24 (3.63%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.72%) MySQL
8 16 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (1.51%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.51%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.06%) SQLite
12 6 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
13 5 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.61%) Big Data
14 4 (0.61%) Redis
15 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 217 (32.83%) Git
2 116 (17.55%) JIRA
3 87 (13.16%) Bitbucket
4 73 (11.04%) Team Foundation Server
5 60 (9.08%) Sourcetree
6 48 (7.26%) NUnit
7 46 (6.96%) Visual Studio Code
8 39 (5.90%) Selenium
9 29 (4.39%) GitLab
10 22 (3.33%) Subversion
11 21 (3.18%) Postman
12 17 (2.57%) Eclipse
13 14 (2.12%) Jasmine
13 14 (2.12%) Jenkins
13 14 (2.12%) SoapUI
13 14 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 14 (2.12%) TeamCity
14 13 (1.97%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.82%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 114 (17.25%) Social Skills
2 78 (11.80%) Games
3 74 (11.20%) Presentation Skills
4 72 (10.89%) Finance
5 39 (5.90%) Manufacturing
6 34 (5.14%) Marketing
7 32 (4.84%) Electronics
8 30 (4.54%) Retail
9 27 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (3.63%) Law
11 18 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (2.57%) Public Sector
13 16 (2.42%) Automotive
14 14 (2.12%) Aerospace
14 14 (2.12%) Back Office
15 12 (1.82%) Police
15 12 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.66%) Legal
16 11 (1.66%) Publishing
17 8 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 416 (62.93%) Developer
2 156 (23.60%) .NET Developer
3 122 (18.46%) Senior
4 105 (15.89%) C# Developer
5 104 (15.73%) Software Engineer
6 98 (14.83%) Software Developer
7 74 (11.20%) 3D Developer
7 74 (11.20%) Games Developer
7 74 (11.20%) Unity 3D Developer
8 73 (11.04%) C# .NET Developer
8 73 (11.04%) Senior Developer
9 62 (9.38%) Lead
10 49 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
11 47 (7.11%) Architect
12 39 (5.90%) .NET Software Developer
12 39 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (5.45%) Applications Developer
14 35 (5.30%) C# Software Developer
15 33 (4.99%) Senior .NET Developer
16 32 (4.84%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (63.69%) .NET
2 190 (28.74%) HTML
3 168 (25.42%) .NET Framework
4 146 (22.09%) CSS
5 145 (21.94%) ASP.NET
6 78 (11.80%) .NET Core
6 78 (11.80%) XML
7 75 (11.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 74 (11.20%) AngularJS
9 73 (11.04%) Web Services
10 67 (10.14%) JSON
11 64 (9.68%) jQuery
12 61 (9.23%) ASP.NET Web API
13 59 (8.93%) RESTful
14 55 (8.32%) WPF
15 53 (8.02%) HTML5
16 48 (7.26%) Entity Framework
17 45 (6.81%) React
18 40 (6.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 39 (5.90%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.50%) Virtual Reality
2 26 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.72%) IoT
5 16 (2.42%) Robotics
6 14 (2.12%) FMCG
6 14 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.82%) Digital Media
8 12 (1.82%) GNSS
9 11 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.36%) EPoS
11 6 (0.91%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 113 (17.10%) Windows
2 65 (9.83%) Linux
3 21 (3.18%) Android
4 15 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.45%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.45%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.45%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.30%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.15%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (41.91%) Software Engineering
2 262 (39.64%) Agile
3 232 (35.10%) DevOps
4 131 (19.82%) Scrum
5 119 (18.00%) Design Patterns
6 108 (16.34%) MVC
7 103 (15.58%) UML
8 90 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (12.25%) Use Case
10 76 (11.50%) Unit Testing
11 74 (11.20%) Test Automation
12 67 (10.14%) Full Stack Development
13 64 (9.68%) Web Development
14 61 (9.23%) Software Testing
15 58 (8.77%) Multithreading
16 56 (8.47%) CI/CD
17 53 (8.02%) Computer Science
17 53 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
18 52 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
19 44 (6.66%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 516 (78.06%) C#
2 276 (41.75%) SQL
3 198 (29.95%) JavaScript
4 123 (18.61%) C++
5 83 (12.56%) C
6 66 (9.98%) Java
7 60 (9.08%) T-SQL
8 56 (8.47%) Python
9 48 (7.26%) VB.NET
10 43 (6.51%) VB
11 36 (5.45%) TypeScript
12 31 (4.69%) PowerShell
13 21 (3.18%) Fortran
14 19 (2.87%) Bash
15 16 (2.42%) Assembly Language
16 15 (2.27%) Perl
17 10 (1.51%) Delphi
17 10 (1.51%) VBA
18 9 (1.36%) PHP
18 9 (1.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 201 (30.41%) Degree
2 131 (19.82%) Security Cleared
3 99 (14.98%) SC Cleared
4 77 (11.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.97%) HNC
7 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.76%) ISEB
9 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.30%) HND
11 2 (0.30%) MCDST
11 2 (0.30%) MCITP
11 2 (0.30%) MCSA
11 2 (0.30%) MCSE
12 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.59%) QA
2 18 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 12 (1.82%) PMO
5 5 (0.76%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.76%) TickIT
6 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) MISRA
7 1 (0.15%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) HL7
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.57%) Docker
2 16 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.91%) Firmware
5 3 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (1.97%) Ansible
2 11 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.06%) MIIS
3 7 (1.06%) Terraform
4 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.30%) vRealize
5 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 325 (49.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.03%) Oracle
3 18 (2.72%) SAP
4 16 (2.42%) VMware
5 15 (2.27%) Xamarin
6 13 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.21%) DevExpress
7 8 (1.21%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.91%) Facebook
8 6 (0.91%) OutSystems
8 6 (0.91%) SYSPRO
9 5 (0.76%) Renesas
10 4 (0.61%) Adobe
10 4 (0.61%) Databricks
10 4 (0.61%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.45%) Google
11 3 (0.45%) Veeam
12 2 (0.30%) Infor
12 2 (0.30%) Pega
12 2 (0.30%) Trend Micro