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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 391 259
Rank change year-on-year +102 -132 -27
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 658 425 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.72% 1.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.88% 5.43% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 548 298 728
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £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 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +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 6,660 7,825 12,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.30% 13.23% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 4,385 7,652
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,350 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,485 £46,250 £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 20 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 20 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 +62 189 £54,000 -10.00% 31
South West +72 153 £47,500 -5.00% 19
Midlands +17 100 £45,000 -5.26% 27
North of England +37 85 £47,500 -5.00% 22
East of England +25 68 £35,500 -29.00% 6
North West +20 65 £45,625 -8.75% 15
West Midlands +17 61 £48,500 +2.11% 18
Scotland -56 43 £61,500 +44.71% 7
East Midlands +2 39 £41,250 -13.16% 9
Wales +16 14 £58,750 +24.34% 3
Yorkshire +60 13 £50,000 - 2
North East +1 7 £55,000 - 5
Northern Ireland +36 6 £42,500 +6.25% 1
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 93 (14.13%) Confluence
2 19 (2.89%) IIS
3 17 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.67%) CMS
5 7 (1.06%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.30%) Liferay
8 2 (0.30%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 34 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.28%) Payment Gateway
2 13 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.37%) Shopify
4 5 (0.76%) 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
1 207 (31.46%) Azure
2 114 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (8.05%) Power Platform
4 42 (6.38%) AWS
5 38 (5.78%) GitHub
6 20 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (2.58%) SaaS
8 9 (1.37%) PaaS
8 9 (1.37%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.22%) Figma
9 8 (1.22%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.06%) Pulumi
11 6 (0.91%) Azure Functions
11 6 (0.91%) Serverless
12 5 (0.76%) npm
12 5 (0.76%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.61%) TestFlight
14 3 (0.46%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.19%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.13%) Network Security
3 13 (1.98%) Modbus
4 9 (1.37%) CTI
5 8 (1.22%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.06%) Firewall
7 6 (0.91%) Ethernet
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 (0.46%) NAS
9 3 (0.46%) 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
1 188 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 39 (5.93%) Power BI
4 35 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 32 (4.86%) MS Access
6 23 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.74%) MySQL
9 16 (2.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.06%) SQLite
12 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.61%) Big Data
13 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.61%) Redis
14 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 216 (32.83%) Git
2 119 (18.09%) JIRA
3 90 (13.68%) Bitbucket
4 72 (10.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 60 (9.12%) Sourcetree
6 47 (7.14%) NUnit
6 47 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 36 (5.47%) Selenium
8 27 (4.10%) GitLab
9 23 (3.50%) Subversion
10 20 (3.04%) Postman
11 18 (2.74%) Eclipse
12 14 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 14 (2.13%) TeamCity
13 13 (1.98%) Jasmine
13 13 (1.98%) SoapUI
13 13 (1.98%) WebDriver
14 12 (1.82%) Jenkins
15 11 (1.67%) Cypress.io
15 11 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 117 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 80 (12.16%) Games
3 77 (11.70%) Presentation Skills
4 73 (11.09%) Finance
5 40 (6.08%) Manufacturing
6 35 (5.32%) Marketing
7 32 (4.86%) Electronics
8 30 (4.56%) Retail
9 28 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (3.34%) Law
11 18 (2.74%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.28%) Automotive
14 14 (2.13%) Back Office
15 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.82%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.82%) Police
17 11 (1.67%) Legal
17 11 (1.67%) Publishing
18 8 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 416 (63.22%) Developer
2 153 (23.25%) .NET Developer
3 121 (18.39%) Senior
4 104 (15.81%) Software Engineer
5 103 (15.65%) C# Developer
6 96 (14.59%) Software Developer
7 77 (11.70%) 3D Developer
7 77 (11.70%) Games Developer
7 77 (11.70%) Unity 3D Developer
8 72 (10.94%) Senior Developer
9 70 (10.64%) C# .NET Developer
10 61 (9.27%) Lead
11 49 (7.45%) Full Stack Developer
12 45 (6.84%) Architect
13 39 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (5.62%) .NET Software Developer
15 36 (5.47%) Applications Developer
16 33 (5.02%) C# Software Developer
17 32 (4.86%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 30 (4.56%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (63.22%) .NET
2 194 (29.48%) HTML
3 165 (25.08%) .NET Framework
4 147 (22.34%) CSS
5 144 (21.88%) ASP.NET
6 78 (11.85%) XML
7 77 (11.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 74 (11.25%) .NET Core
8 74 (11.25%) AngularJS
9 73 (11.09%) Web Services
10 67 (10.18%) JSON
11 66 (10.03%) jQuery
12 59 (8.97%) ASP.NET Web API
13 56 (8.51%) RESTful
13 56 (8.51%) WPF
14 55 (8.36%) HTML5
15 46 (6.99%) React
16 45 (6.84%) Entity Framework
17 41 (6.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 39 (5.93%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.85%) Virtual Reality
2 26 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.74%) IoT
5 16 (2.43%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.43%) Robotics
6 14 (2.13%) FMCG
7 13 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.82%) Digital Media
8 12 (1.82%) GNSS
9 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.37%) EPoS
12 7 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 113 (17.17%) Windows
2 64 (9.73%) Linux
3 22 (3.34%) Android
4 15 (2.28%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.46%) FreeBSD
8 3 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.30%) 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
1 276 (41.95%) Software Engineering
2 257 (39.06%) Agile
3 229 (34.80%) DevOps
4 133 (20.21%) Scrum
5 120 (18.24%) Design Patterns
6 110 (16.72%) MVC
7 105 (15.96%) UML
8 89 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (12.61%) Use Case
10 74 (11.25%) Unit Testing
11 73 (11.09%) Test Automation
12 67 (10.18%) Full Stack Development
13 65 (9.88%) Web Development
14 59 (8.97%) Software Testing
15 58 (8.81%) Multithreading
16 55 (8.36%) CI/CD
17 53 (8.05%) Continuous Integration
18 52 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
19 51 (7.75%) Computer Science
20 43 (6.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 511 (77.66%) C#
2 278 (42.25%) SQL
3 200 (30.40%) JavaScript
4 120 (18.24%) C++
5 83 (12.61%) C
6 67 (10.18%) Java
7 60 (9.12%) T-SQL
8 55 (8.36%) Python
9 47 (7.14%) VB.NET
10 42 (6.38%) VB
11 35 (5.32%) TypeScript
12 30 (4.56%) PowerShell
13 20 (3.04%) Bash
14 19 (2.89%) Fortran
15 16 (2.43%) Perl
16 15 (2.28%) Assembly Language
17 10 (1.52%) Delphi
17 10 (1.52%) PHP
17 10 (1.52%) VBA
17 10 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 201 (30.55%) Degree
2 132 (20.06%) Security Cleared
3 102 (15.50%) SC Cleared
4 80 (12.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.98%) HNC
7 5 (0.76%) ISEB
7 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.30%) HND
10 2 (0.30%) MCDST
10 2 (0.30%) MCITP
10 2 (0.30%) MCSA
10 2 (0.30%) MCSE
11 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.94%) QA
2 18 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (1.82%) PMO
4 7 (1.06%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.76%) MISRA
5 5 (0.76%) TickIT
6 1 (0.15%) GDPR
6 1 (0.15%) HL7
6 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.58%) Docker
2 15 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.91%) Firmware
5 3 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.30%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (1.67%) Ansible
1 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.06%) MIIS
2 7 (1.06%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (0.30%) vRealize
4 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 327 (49.70%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.89%) SAP
3 18 (2.74%) Oracle
4 16 (2.43%) Xamarin
5 15 (2.28%) VMware
6 13 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.22%) DevExpress
7 8 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.06%) SYSPRO
9 6 (0.91%) Facebook
9 6 (0.91%) 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 (0.30%) Jitterbit
13 2 (0.30%) LogRhythm
13 2 (0.30%) ServiceNow