The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 28 9 19
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +10
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 10 17 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 6.757% 16.04% 8.633%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.45% 65.38% 70.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 12
Average salary £46,250 £41,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.44% +36.06%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
22 26 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 14.86% 24.53% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16 26 17
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +31.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £37,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Oxfordshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Abingdon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Abingdon Visual Studio Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing Visual Studio also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Visual Studio.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) Internet
1 10 (100.00%) Extranet
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Vista
2 8 (80.00%) Project Management
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) XHTML
2 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
2 8 (80.00%) IIS
2 8 (80.00%) MS Office
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Web Application Development
4 3 (30.00%) Business Development
5 2 (20.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 2 (20.00%) CSS
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
5 2 (20.00%) MVC

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing Visual Studio also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Visual Studio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (80.00%) XHTML
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
1 8 (80.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Internet
1 10 (100.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
1 10 (100.00%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Vista
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 3 (30.00%) Business Development
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft