# Companies using Microsoft Visual Studio

We found 255,578 companies that use Microsoft Visual Studio. 27,335 of them name it in their own job posts, and the rest through employees' public profiles. Hiring for it has slowed, though 20,023 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. IT teams are its most common home.

Data as of November 9, 2026. Source: Sumble.

## Which companies name Microsoft Visual Studio in the most job posts?

Microsoft, Global Payments Inc. and Lockheed Martin are among the companies with the most job posts naming Microsoft Visual Studio. Of the five companies in the table, Microsoft has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 13,313.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [Microsoft](https://sumble.com/orgs/microsoft) | 785 | 13,313 | "You will work across multiple Visual Studio and Copilot teams to drive a unified product vision that helps developers move faster while maintaining quality, control, and trust." (Product Manager 2 - CoreAI, Nov 4, 2026) |
| [Global Payments Inc.](https://sumble.com/orgs/global-payments) | 766 | 210 | "Development Tools - Eclipse, Visual Studio, Webpack, Babel, Gulp" (Software Engineer, Nov 6, 2026) |
| [Lockheed Martin](https://sumble.com/orgs/lockheed-martin) | 739 | 1,287 | "Test program development in TestStand, CVI/LabWindows, Atlas, or Visual Studio" (systems integration/test engineer sr - e3, Oct 21, 2026) |
| [EY](https://sumble.com/orgs/ey) | 680 | 2,024 | "Visual Studio, TFS, VSTS and GIT" (de-full stack backend engineer-gdsn02, Nov 3, 2026) |
| [Leidos](https://sumble.com/orgs/leidos) | 641 | 435 | "Desirable Skills: Knowledge of CNO and experience with development tools such as Visual Studio and Git." (Senior Software Engineer (SWE-4), Oct 23, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Microsoft Visual Studio growing?

Microsoft Visual Studio turned up in a shrinking share of job posts: 8.9 in every 10,000 job posts from June to August 2026, compared with 10 from March to May. From October to December 2025 it was 12.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 1,667 | 1,413,673 | 12 |
| Nov 2025 | 2,168 | 1,822,119 | 12 |
| Dec 2025 | 1,408 | 1,236,103 | 11 |
| Jan 2026 | 2,111 | 1,828,002 | 12 |
| Feb 2026 | 2,114 | 1,856,647 | 11 |
| Mar 2026 | 2,018 | 1,850,711 | 11 |
| Apr 2026 | 1,814 | 1,728,886 | 10 |
| May 2026 | 1,767 | 1,821,509 | 9.7 |
| Jun 2026 | 1,768 | 1,909,496 | 9.3 |
| Jul 2026 | 1,666 | 1,815,180 | 9.2 |
| Aug 2026 | 1,522 | 1,835,698 | 8.3 |

## How many companies named Microsoft Visual Studio in a job post for the first time in recent months?

In the three months to August 2026, 486 companies posted about Microsoft Visual Studio for the first time. From March to May, 553 did. Over the 11 months from October 2025, 2,018 companies posted their first job naming it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 553 |
| June to August 2026 | 486 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 2,018 |

Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.

## How do we know which companies use Microsoft Visual Studio?

89% of the companies here are known from employees' profiles alone, and 11% name Microsoft Visual Studio in their own job posts. 16,390 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Microsoft Visual Studio | 27,335 | 11% |
| Employees' profiles list Microsoft Visual Studio | 228,243 | 89% |

## What size are the companies that use Microsoft Visual Studio?

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are 2 times as common among Microsoft Visual Studio users as on the typical tech page. 4,802 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 44% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 47% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 7.1% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 1.9% | 23% |

## Where are Microsoft Visual Studio companies based?

30% of Microsoft Visual Studio companies are based in the United States, and 6.4% in India. Its companies are based in 215 countries and territories.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 73,167 | 30% | 43% |
| India | 15,471 | 6.4% | 6.9% |
| United Kingdom | 15,335 | 6.3% | 6.4% |
| Canada | 9,860 | 4.1% | 3.6% |
| Brazil | 8,963 | 3.7% | 2.8% |
| France | 8,938 | 3.7% | 4.6% |

## Which teams work with Microsoft Visual Studio?

Microsoft Visual Studio sits mostly with IT teams (889 companies). Development and software development teams come next, at 297 and 286 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| IT | 889 |
| Development | 297 |
| Software development | 286 |
| Engineering | 203 |
| R&D | 198 |
| Software engineering | 154 |

## Which roles mention Microsoft Visual Studio most?

Software Engineer is the role behind 48% of the job posts that mention Microsoft Visual Studio. Software Development Engineer in Test is second, at 4.6%.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Software Engineer | 48% | 9,616 | 2,558 | 2,186 |
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 4.6% | 931 | 268 | 206 |
| Business Systems | 2.7% | 550 | 145 | 116 |
| IT Support | 2.4% | 474 | 112 | 119 |
| Consultant | 1.5% | 303 | 80 | 79 |
| Embedded Engineer | 1.5% | 303 | 85 | 76 |

## Which companies started naming Microsoft Visual Studio in job posts recently?

From April to August 2026, 511 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming Microsoft Visual Studio: 359 commercial, 109 mid-market and 43 enterprise. ACTIA ITALIA has the most job posts of the new commercial companies, 15 from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| AI native | [Neo](https://sumble.com/orgs/momentumforwork1) | 2 |
| AI native | [Freeform](https://sumble.com/orgs/freeform-7) | 1 |
| AI native | [Lucky Robots](https://sumble.com/orgs/luckyrobots) | 1 |
| Commercial | [ACTIA ITALIA](https://sumble.com/orgs/actia-italia) | 15 |
| Commercial | [IMDEX](https://sumble.com/orgs/imdex) | 7 |
| Commercial | [Adentis Portugal](https://sumble.com/orgs/adentis-portugal) | 6 |
| Commercial | [IQFARMA](https://sumble.com/orgs/iqfarma) | 5 |
| Commercial | [Progressive Leasing](https://sumble.com/orgs/progressive-leasing) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [KPMG Philippines](https://sumble.com/orgs/kpmgphilippines) | 12 |
| Mid-market | [MiTek](https://sumble.com/orgs/mitek-industries) | 9 |
| Mid-market | [Kantar IBOPE Media](https://sumble.com/orgs/kantaribopemedia) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [Redcare Pharmacy](https://sumble.com/orgs/redcare-pharmacy) | 4 |
| Mid-market | [IDEMIA Public Security](https://sumble.com/orgs/idemia-north-america) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [Worldpay](https://sumble.com/orgs/worldpay) | 11 |
| Enterprise | [Inspire](https://sumble.com/orgs/inspire-brands) | 4 |
| Enterprise | [State Farm](https://sumble.com/orgs/state-farm-mutual-automobile-insurance) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Danone](https://sumble.com/orgs/danone) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [National University of Singapore](https://sumble.com/orgs/national-university-of-singapore) | 2 |

Companies that named Microsoft Visual Studio in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.

## What else do Microsoft Visual Studio companies use?

Compared with companies of the same size, Microsoft Visual Studio companies stand out for using WPF and WinForms. WCF comes third, 7.5 times as common as usual, at 12%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| WPF | 3,063 | 14% | 1.8% | 7.7 times |
| WinForms | 1,532 | 6.9% | 0.92% | 7.6 times |
| WCF | 2,635 | 12% | 1.6% | 7.5 times |
| Xamarin | 1,320 | 6% | 0.84% | 7.1 times |
| Microsoft TFS | 3,325 | 15% | 2.1% | 7 times |
| Microsoft ASP.NET MVC | 3,394 | 15% | 2.2% | 6.8 times |
| Microsoft Entity Framework | 5,737 | 26% | 3.9% | 6.7 times |
| Microsoft Blazor | 2,392 | 11% | 1.6% | 6.6 times |

Shares are out of the 22,129 companies whose job posts name Microsoft Visual Studio, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## Which project themes come up in Microsoft Visual Studio job posts?

Setting aside broad digital transformation, Data Infrastructure Migration is the theme teams hiring for Microsoft Visual Studio mention most, in 2,151 job posts. After that comes Microservices Migration, with 930.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 10,847 |
| Data Infrastructure Migration | 2,151 |
| Microservices Migration | 930 |
| Cloud Migration | 724 |

- "using with Microsoft Visual Studio, REST APIs, Microservices Architecture" (JAKSON Group, Software Developer, Nov 5, 2026)

## About this data

Sumble built this page. Sumble gives sales, marketing and other GTM teams technographics and hiring signals for the companies they sell to: the technologies each company uses, which teams are hiring and for what, and who reports to whom. That helps a team know who to contact, why now, and what to say.

Sumble covers more than 3.6 million companies, 93 million job posts collected since 2022 and 194 million employee profiles, and tracks more than 37,000 technologies. It finds which technologies a company uses by reading its job posts and its employees' public profiles.

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A company counts when its own job posts or its employees' public profiles name the technology. Hiring is that technology's share of all job posts collected each month. Quotes are copied word for word from the companies' job posts.

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