Visual Studio Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Visual Studio
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 209 233
Rank change year-on-year +45 +24 -31
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 139 46 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.32% 0.71% 1.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.85% 4.85% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 112 31 75
10th Percentile - £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £47,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,250 £67,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 requiring development application skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,082 948 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.24% 14.70% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 808 552 953
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,614 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £58,700 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio in the South West.

Salary trend for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Visual Studio in the South West

Visual Studio
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Gloucestershire +29 62 £33,000 -49.23% 1
Bristol +15 37 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Devon -3 12 - - 2
Dorset -30 11 - - 2
Wiltshire -7 10 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Somerset - 7 £53,750 - 6
Visual Studio
England

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 59 (42.45%) Confluence
2 4 (2.88%) CMS
2 4 (2.88%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.58%) Azure
2 22 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (8.63%) AWS
4 3 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.44%) DHCP
1 2 (1.44%) Firewall
1 2 (1.44%) Internet
1 2 (1.44%) Multicast
1 2 (1.44%) RS-232
1 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.44%) VoIP
1 2 (1.44%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.72%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.04%) SQLite
3 1 (0.72%) Power BI
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (51.80%) Git
2 62 (44.60%) JIRA
3 59 (42.45%) Bitbucket
3 59 (42.45%) Sourcetree
4 11 (7.91%) Eclipse
4 11 (7.91%) NetBeans
5 8 (5.76%) LabVIEW
5 8 (5.76%) Subversion
6 6 (4.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.72%) CppUnit
7 1 (0.72%) JUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
General
1 60 (43.17%) Games
2 59 (42.45%) Presentation Skills
3 19 (13.67%) Marketing
4 11 (7.91%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Electronics
6 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.76%) Finance
7 7 (5.04%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.04%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.32%) Legal
8 6 (4.32%) Publishing
9 3 (2.16%) Military
10 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 89 (64.03%) Developer
2 59 (42.45%) 3D Developer
2 59 (42.45%) Games Developer
2 59 (42.45%) Unity 3D Developer
3 52 (37.41%) Senior
4 38 (27.34%) Software Engineer
5 36 (25.90%) Senior Developer
6 30 (21.58%) Senior Games Developer
7 22 (15.83%) .NET Developer
8 15 (10.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (9.35%) Software Developer
10 9 (6.47%) C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) .NET Software Developer
11 7 (5.04%) Lead
11 7 (5.04%) Software Team Leader
11 7 (5.04%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.32%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (4.32%) Senior .NET Software Developer
12 6 (4.32%) Senior Software Developer
13 3 (2.16%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (43.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 33 (23.74%) .NET
3 30 (21.58%) HTML
4 22 (15.83%) CSS
5 21 (15.11%) AngularJS
6 17 (12.23%) WPF
7 16 (11.51%) .NET Framework
7 16 (11.51%) ASP.NET
8 15 (10.79%) ASP.NET MVC
9 14 (10.07%) jQuery
9 14 (10.07%) KnockoutJS
10 13 (9.35%) React
10 13 (9.35%) Vue
11 8 (5.76%) JavaFX
11 8 (5.76%) XML
12 7 (5.04%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.04%) Qt
13 6 (4.32%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 6 (4.32%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 60 (43.17%) Virtual Reality
2 12 (8.63%) GNSS
3 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.60%) PMI
5 3 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.16%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.72%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.72%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.42%) Windows
2 20 (14.39%) Linux
3 4 (2.88%) Android
4 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.44%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.44%) Windows 2000
4 2 (1.44%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.44%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.72%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.72%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (74.82%) Software Engineering
2 85 (61.15%) DevOps
3 78 (56.12%) Scrum
4 75 (53.96%) Design Patterns
5 73 (52.52%) UML
6 59 (42.45%) Use Case
7 34 (24.46%) Agile
8 25 (17.99%) MVC
8 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (16.55%) SDLC
10 18 (12.95%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.95%) Unit Testing
11 14 (10.07%) Multithreading
11 14 (10.07%) Requirements Analysis
11 14 (10.07%) Validation
12 13 (9.35%) Clean Code
12 13 (9.35%) OO
12 13 (9.35%) Secure Coding
13 12 (8.63%) Configuration Management
13 12 (8.63%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (71.94%) C#
2 35 (25.18%) C++
3 28 (20.14%) Python
4 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.67%) Bash
5 19 (13.67%) Java
5 19 (13.67%) SQL
6 14 (10.07%) C
7 13 (9.35%) Perl
8 8 (5.76%) Fortran
8 8 (5.76%) MATLAB
9 7 (5.04%) PHP
9 7 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.44%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.44%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (66.19%) Degree
2 71 (51.08%) Security Cleared
3 69 (49.64%) SC Cleared
4 59 (42.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.44%) MCDST
8 2 (1.44%) MCITP
8 2 (1.44%) MCSA
8 2 (1.44%) MCSE
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) QA
2 12 (8.63%) PMO
3 8 (5.76%) ISO 9001
4 7 (5.04%) TickIT
5 1 (0.72%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.72%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (2.16%) Firmware
2 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 91 (65.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.91%) Atlassian
3 7 (5.04%) SAP
4 2 (1.44%) VMware
5 1 (0.72%) Apple
5 1 (0.72%) Citrix