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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 30 17 23
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +6
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 7 22 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 5.833% 16.92% 1.695%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.18% 56.41% 4.167%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 0
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 39 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 14.17% 30.00% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 16 39 23
Average salary £27,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,450 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £40,000 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Manchester

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton 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 Bolton region.

Bolton Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 (90.91%) SQL
1 10 (90.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (81.82%) T-SQL
2 9 (81.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (63.64%) .NET
3 7 (63.64%) C#
3 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
3 7 (63.64%) MVC
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
4 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
4 5 (45.45%) Web Application Development
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (36.36%) ETL
5 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (36.36%) OLAP
6 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 2 (18.18%) Ajax
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (18.18%) Finance
7 2 (18.18%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) Business Objects

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 7 (63.64%) .NET
1 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Ajax
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
5 1 (9.091%) SOAP
5 1 (9.091%) Web Services
5 1 (9.091%) XHTML
5 1 (9.091%) HTML
5 1 (9.091%) LINQ
5 1 (9.091%) jQuery
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (81.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (36.36%) OLAP
4 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
3 5 (45.45%) C# Developer
3 5 (45.45%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (18.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
6 2 (18.18%) Business Developer
7 1 (9.091%) .NET Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) MVC
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) Web Application Development
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Web Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Web Development
5 1 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) T-SQL
3 7 (63.64%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.091%) Perl
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Business Objects
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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