The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 31 26 23
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 19 22 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 5.523% 9.244% 7.884%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.65% 35.48% 46.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19 16 18
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -23.52%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
62 62 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 18.02% 26.05% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 61 56 37
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Somerset

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Bath region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Bath Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 24 (72.73%) C#
2 22 (66.67%) .NET
2 22 (66.67%) XML
2 22 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 18 (54.55%) Windows
4 17 (51.52%) VB.NET
5 14 (42.42%) MS Excel
5 14 (42.42%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (42.42%) Business Analysis
5 14 (42.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (42.42%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (39.39%) Release Management
6 13 (39.39%) Degree
7 10 (30.30%) Finance
7 10 (30.30%) Service Delivery
7 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
8 9 (27.27%) Web Services
8 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
9 8 (24.24%) C++
10 7 (21.21%) SQL
10 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
11 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (18.18%) Trapeze
11 6 (18.18%) Hudson
11 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
11 6 (18.18%) Ant
11 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET
11 6 (18.18%) SOAP
11 6 (18.18%) XML Schema
11 6 (18.18%) QA

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 22 (66.67%) .NET
1 22 (66.67%) XML
2 9 (27.27%) Web Services
3 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 6 (18.18%) SOAP
3 6 (18.18%) XML Schema
4 3 (9.091%) HTML
5 2 (6.061%) MFC
5 2 (6.061%) STL
5 2 (6.061%) XSD
5 2 (6.061%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.030%) WCF
6 1 (3.030%) Ajax
6 1 (3.030%) CSS
6 1 (3.030%) ASP
6 1 (3.030%) jQuery
6 1 (3.030%) Ext JS
6 1 (3.030%) CSS3
6 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (42.42%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (18.18%) Hudson
2 6 (18.18%) Ant
3 2 (6.061%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Configuration Manager
2 13 (39.39%) Release Manager
3 12 (36.36%) Software Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Graduate
5 3 (9.091%) DBA
5 3 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server DBA
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Developer
5 3 (9.091%) SQL DBA
5 3 (9.091%) Junior Developer
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server Developer
5 3 (9.091%) Junior
6 2 (6.061%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) C++/C# Developer
6 2 (6.061%) C++ Software Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Graduate Software Developer
6 2 (6.061%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.061%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (54.55%) Windows
2 14 (42.42%) Windows Server 2003
2 14 (42.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Business Analysis
2 13 (39.39%) Release Management
3 10 (30.30%) Service Delivery
4 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 6 (18.18%) TDD
6 3 (9.091%) OO
7 2 (6.061%) UML
7 2 (6.061%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.030%) MVC
8 1 (3.030%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) C#
2 17 (51.52%) VB.NET
3 8 (24.24%) C++
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
5 3 (9.091%) Tcl
5 3 (9.091%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.091%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.061%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Trapeze
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle