Visual Studio Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 357 356
Rank change year-on-year +52 -1 -124
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 318 348 670
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 0.84% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.22% 5.54% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 282 253 475
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,198 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +0.36% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,867 6,279 16,694
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.47% 15.19% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 4,456 8,394
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,085 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +6.81% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £78,688
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Visual Studio
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Visual Studio trend for jobs with a WFH option

Visual Studio
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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 27 (8.49%) IIS
1 27 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.03%) CMS
3 4 (1.26%) EPiServer
3 4 (1.26%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.31%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.63%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (5.03%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.26%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.31%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 168 (52.83%) Azure
2 101 (31.76%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (12.26%) Power Platform
4 35 (11.01%) GitHub
5 26 (8.18%) AWS
6 21 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.83%) Google Analytics
7 9 (2.83%) SaaS
8 7 (2.20%) Figma
8 7 (2.20%) Pulumi
9 6 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.89%) Serverless
10 5 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.57%) PaaS
11 3 (0.94%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.94%) Azure Storage
11 3 (0.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.09%) Modbus
1 13 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.83%) CTI
3 7 (2.20%) Network Security
4 6 (1.89%) Internet
5 2 (0.63%) 5G
5 2 (0.63%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.63%) RS-232
5 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.63%) WAN
5 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.31%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (34.91%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (5.97%) Power BI
5 14 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (2.20%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 7 (2.20%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.20%) Semantic Layer
7 7 (2.20%) SQLite
8 4 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.26%) Redis
9 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.94%) DBAmp
9 3 (0.94%) MySQL
10 2 (0.63%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 66 (20.75%) Git
2 42 (13.21%) Team Foundation Server
3 38 (11.95%) Visual Studio Code
4 21 (6.60%) Postman
4 21 (6.60%) Selenium
5 20 (6.29%) NUnit
6 19 (5.97%) JIRA
7 14 (4.40%) SoapUI
8 13 (4.09%) GitLab
9 12 (3.77%) TeamCity
10 11 (3.46%) Eclipse
11 10 (3.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (2.52%) Subversion
13 7 (2.20%) Jasmine
14 6 (1.89%) JMeter
14 6 (1.89%) SpecFlow
15 5 (1.57%) Android Studio
15 5 (1.57%) Cypress.io
16 3 (0.94%) Moq
17 2 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (24.53%) Finance
2 63 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.75%) Manufacturing
4 26 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.55%) Retail
6 23 (7.23%) Marketing
7 22 (6.92%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.66%) Electronics
9 16 (5.03%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.40%) Legal
11 13 (4.09%) Law
12 12 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (3.46%) Police
13 11 (3.46%) Publishing
14 10 (3.14%) Automotive
15 7 (2.20%) Local Government
16 5 (1.57%) Military
17 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
18 2 (0.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 185 (58.18%) Developer
2 113 (35.53%) .NET Developer
3 60 (18.87%) C# Developer
4 53 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 47 (14.78%) Software Developer
6 46 (14.47%) Lead
7 43 (13.52%) Senior
8 37 (11.64%) Architect
9 34 (10.69%) Applications Developer
10 31 (9.75%) Software Engineer
11 25 (7.86%) .NET Applications Developer
12 23 (7.23%) C# Application Developer
13 22 (6.92%) Full Stack Developer
14 20 (6.29%) .NET Software Developer
14 20 (6.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 18 (5.66%) Lead Developer
15 18 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
16 16 (5.03%) Full Stack .NET Developer
16 16 (5.03%) Lead .NET Developer
17 15 (4.72%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (71.38%) .NET
2 107 (33.65%) .NET Framework
2 107 (33.65%) HTML
3 80 (25.16%) CSS
4 75 (23.58%) ASP.NET
5 56 (17.61%) AngularJS
6 47 (14.78%) HTML5
7 42 (13.21%) .NET Core
8 38 (11.95%) XML
9 37 (11.64%) Web Services
9 37 (11.64%) WPF
10 36 (11.32%) REST
11 35 (11.01%) SOAP
12 33 (10.38%) RESTful
13 32 (10.06%) JSON
14 31 (9.75%) Blazor
15 27 (8.49%) jQuery
16 26 (8.18%) React
16 26 (8.18%) WinForms
17 22 (6.92%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.18%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (5.66%) FMCG
3 12 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.94%) Hackathon
8 3 (0.94%) W3C
9 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.63%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.63%) GNSS
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.63%) NHS
9 2 (0.63%) Tandem
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.31%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.41%) Windows
2 16 (5.03%) Linux
3 10 (3.14%) Android
4 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (48.43%) Agile
2 120 (37.74%) DevOps
3 86 (27.04%) Software Engineering
4 73 (22.96%) MVC
5 55 (17.30%) Continuous Integration
6 52 (16.35%) Scrum
7 51 (16.04%) CI/CD
8 46 (14.47%) Test Automation
9 45 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (14.15%) Web Development
10 43 (13.52%) TDD
11 42 (13.21%) Unit Testing
12 39 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (9.75%) Microservices
14 30 (9.43%) OO
15 29 (9.12%) Multithreading
16 27 (8.49%) Design Patterns
16 27 (8.49%) Full Stack Development
16 27 (8.49%) User Stories
17 26 (8.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 241 (75.79%) C#
2 126 (39.62%) SQL
3 115 (36.16%) JavaScript
4 41 (12.89%) Java
5 39 (12.26%) T-SQL
6 35 (11.01%) C++
7 19 (5.97%) C
7 19 (5.97%) Python
7 19 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.97%) VB.NET
7 19 (5.97%) XPath
8 9 (2.83%) Bash
9 8 (2.52%) PHP
9 8 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.20%) Bicep
10 7 (2.20%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.94%) Perl
12 2 (0.63%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.63%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (15.41%) Degree
2 21 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.57%) HNC
5 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.78%) QA
2 21 (6.60%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.26%) WCAG
5 2 (0.63%) HL7
5 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (3.46%) Docker
2 5 (1.57%) Firmware
3 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.20%) MIIS
2 7 (2.20%) Terraform
3 2 (0.63%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 118 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.03%) SAP
3 9 (2.83%) Google
4 7 (2.20%) Oracle
5 6 (1.89%) Facebook
5 6 (1.89%) MuleSoft
5 6 (1.89%) OutSystems
6 4 (1.26%) Aderant
6 4 (1.26%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.94%) Adobe
7 3 (0.94%) DevExpress
7 3 (0.94%) Pardot
7 3 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.63%) Cerner
8 2 (0.63%) Epicor
9 1 (0.31%) Lotus
9 1 (0.31%) Sage