The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brentwood region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 23 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 Brentwood region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 3.061% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 13.04% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Brentwood
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
23 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 23.47% 40.00% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 1
Average salary £42,500 £27,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+54.54% -31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Essex

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentwood 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 Brentwood region.

Brentwood Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) IIS
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
2 8 (88.89%) MVC
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) WinForms
3 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 6 (66.67%) Financial Institution
3 6 (66.67%) DevExpress
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) jQuery
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (33.33%) NHibernate
4 3 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
4 3 (33.33%) Change Control
4 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 3 (33.33%) VB
4 3 (33.33%) .NET
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle
4 3 (33.33%) HTML
4 3 (33.33%) Tcl
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (33.33%) Code Coverage
5 2 (22.22%) VXML

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 9 (100.00%) WCF
2 8 (88.89%) WinForms
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 3 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) VXML
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) XSL
4 2 (22.22%) Autofac
4 2 (22.22%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) IIS
2 2 (22.22%) MSMQ
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) FTP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco ICM
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) NUnit
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
1 6 (66.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Junior Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Junior C# Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Change Control
2 3 (33.33%) Code Coverage
3 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) VB
3 3 (33.33%) Tcl
4 2 (22.22%) VB6
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
4 2 (22.22%) XPath
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) DevExpress
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco