The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio Team System skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio Team System over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)
Rank 29 37 37
Rank change year-on-year
+8 0
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio Team System 21 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 8.333% 1.942% 1.176%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.43% 6.349% 7.407%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 2
Average salary £41,000 £30,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.66% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Development Applications
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
69 63 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 27.38% 30.58% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 69 58 27
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio Team System
Bedfordshire

Visual Studio Team System
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford Visual Studio Team System Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Salary Trend

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

Bedford Visual Studio Team System Salary Trend

Visual Studio Team System
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio Team System across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedford Visual Studio Team System Salary Histogram

Visual Studio Team System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Visual Studio Team System 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 Team System.

1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (91.30%) MS Excel
2 21 (91.30%) Crystal Reports
2 21 (91.30%) XML
3 20 (86.96%) .NET
4 17 (73.91%) CSS
4 17 (73.91%) Web Services
4 17 (73.91%) C#
4 17 (73.91%) SQL
4 17 (73.91%) T-SQL
4 17 (73.91%) MVC
4 17 (73.91%) WinForms
4 17 (73.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (73.91%) WPF
4 17 (73.91%) WF
4 17 (73.91%) Silverlight
4 17 (73.91%) MSTest
5 14 (60.87%) Scrum
6 13 (56.52%) NUnit
6 13 (56.52%) Project Management
6 13 (56.52%) HTML
6 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
7 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
7 8 (34.78%) PowerBuilder
7 8 (34.78%) JIRA
7 8 (34.78%) Wiki
8 7 (30.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
10 5 (21.74%) Software Testing

Visual Studio Team System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Visual Studio Team System 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 Team System. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (91.30%) XML
2 20 (86.96%) .NET
3 17 (73.91%) CSS
3 17 (73.91%) Web Services
3 17 (73.91%) WinForms
3 17 (73.91%) WPF
3 17 (73.91%) WF
3 17 (73.91%) Silverlight
4 13 (56.52%) HTML
5 4 (17.39%) WCF
5 4 (17.39%) ASP
Applications
1 21 (91.30%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (91.30%) Crystal Reports
2 17 (73.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) MSTest
2 13 (56.52%) NUnit
3 8 (34.78%) JIRA
3 8 (34.78%) PowerBuilder
4 7 (30.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
6 4 (17.39%) TestComplete
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) C# Developer
2 8 (34.78%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (21.74%) .NET Team Leader
3 5 (21.74%) Team Leader
3 5 (21.74%) Development Team Leader
4 4 (17.39%) QA Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Web Team Leader
4 4 (17.39%) Test Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Test Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior
5 2 (8.696%) Test Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior C# Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Wiki
2 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) MVC
2 14 (60.87%) Scrum
3 13 (56.52%) Project Management
4 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (21.74%) Software Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
6 4 (17.39%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) CRM
6 4 (17.39%) SOA
6 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Automation Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Automated Testing
8 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.696%) Performance Management
8 2 (8.696%) Resource Management
8 2 (8.696%) Matrix Management
8 2 (8.696%) Test Strategy
9 1 (4.348%) Test Management
9 1 (4.348%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) SQL
1 17 (73.91%) T-SQL
1 17 (73.91%) C#
2 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
3 4 (17.39%) VBScript
3 4 (17.39%) VB
3 4 (17.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) ISEB
1 4 (17.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Telerik
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Using the following technology: C#.Net, SQL, Win Forms, Web Forms, T-SQL, nUnit, MSTest, XML, Web Services, Crystal Reports, SSRS, WWF, WPF, Silverlight, MVC, VSTS, HTML, CSS...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £27000 - £32000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013