Buckinghamshire Visual Studio Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilkley Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Towcester Truro Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	73
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	108	116
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	35.76 %	25.95 %
Salaries quoted	104	98
Average minimum salary	£32,110	£32,898
Average salary	£35,752	£36,026
% change on same period last year	-0.75 %
Average maximum salary	£39,394	£39,153
UK excluding London average salary	£33,552	£35,196
% change on same period last year	-4.67 %
Development Applications Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	302	447
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.159 %	0.183 %
Salaries quoted	260	356
Average minimum salary	£34,389	£33,612
Average salary	£37,076	£36,516
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Average maximum salary	£39,763	£39,420
UK excluding London average salary	£34,829	£35,862
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Visual Studio South East

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Visual Studio
Salary Trend

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

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Visual Studio
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+5	37	£31,559	-9.78 %
High Wycombe	+2	11	£38,409	+13.17 %
Chesham	-	10	£32,650	-
Aylesbury	-11	8	£38,000	+1.74 %
Amersham	-	4	£39,500	-
Gerrards Cross	-5	3	£40,000	+23.07 %
Marlow	-6	1	£40,000	+20.40 %
Newport Pagnell	-	1	£32,500	-

Visual Studio South East

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

1 166 (89.73 %) .NET 2 148 (80.00 %) SQL Server 3 143 (77.30 %) C# 4 139 (75.14 %) ASP.NET 5 88 (47.57 %) SQL 6 82 (44.32 %) SQL Server 2005 7 77 (41.62 %) XML 8 74 (40.00 %) JavaScript 9 73 (39.46 %) HTML 10 71 (38.38 %) Windows 11 56 (30.27 %) ASP 12 55 (29.73 %) VB 12 55 (29.73 %) Microsoft 13 45 (24.32 %) VB.NET 14 44 (23.78 %) CSS

15 41 (22.16 %) SQL Server 2000 16 34 (18.38 %) Web Development 17 33 (17.84 %) IIS 18 31 (16.76 %) AJAX 18 31 (16.76 %) VB6 19 27 (14.59 %) ADO.NET 20 26 (14.05 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 21 25 (13.51 %) MS Excel 22 23 (12.43 %) Flash 22 23 (12.43 %) VBScript 22 23 (12.43 %) ASP.NET 2.0 23 22 (11.89 %) XHTML 24 21 (11.35 %) SQL Server 7 25 20 (10.81 %) Windows Server 2003 25 20 (10.81 %) Finance

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 1 166 (89.73 %) .NET 2 139 (75.14 %) ASP.NET 3 77 (41.62 %) XML 4 73 (39.46 %) HTML 5 56 (30.27 %) ASP 6 44 (23.78 %) CSS 7 31 (16.76 %) AJAX 8 27 (14.59 %) ADO.NET 9 23 (12.43 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 22 (11.89 %) XHTML 11 19 (10.27 %) WebServices 12 15 (8.108 %) ATL 12 15 (8.108 %) ADO 12 15 (8.108 %) WinForms 12 15 (8.108 %) .NET Framework 13 10 (5.405 %) WF 13 10 (5.405 %) XSLT 14 7 (3.784 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 6 (3.243 %) Silverlight 15 6 (3.243 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 33 (17.84 %) IIS 2 11 (5.946 %) SharePoint 3 6 (3.243 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 4 (2.162 %) MS Exchange 5 2 (1.081 %) Commerce Server 6 1 (0.541 %) CMS
Applications 1 25 (13.51 %) MS Excel 2 16 (8.649 %) Photoshop 3 8 (4.324 %) MS Office 4 4 (2.162 %) Fireworks 5 2 (1.081 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (0.541 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (0.541 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 11 (5.946 %) Internet 2 6 (3.243 %) Wireless 2 6 (3.243 %) Bluetooth 2 6 (3.243 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (2.162 %) LAN 3 4 (2.162 %) WLAN 3 4 (2.162 %) ZigBee 4 2 (1.081 %) WEP 4 2 (1.081 %) WPA 4 2 (1.081 %) Wi-Fi 4 2 (1.081 %) SSL 4 2 (1.081 %) Intranet 5 1 (0.541 %) DNS 5 1 (0.541 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 148 (80.00 %) SQL Server 2 82 (44.32 %) SQL Server 2005 3 41 (22.16 %) SQL Server 2000 4 26 (14.05 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 21 (11.35 %) SQL Server 7 6 13 (7.027 %) RDBMS 7 6 (3.243 %) MySQL 8 5 (2.703 %) MS Access 8 5 (2.703 %) Datawarehouse 9 3 (1.622 %) OLAP 10 1 (0.541 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 23 (12.43 %) Flash 2 9 (4.865 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 6 (3.243 %) NUnit 4 4 (2.162 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.541 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 20 (10.81 %) Finance 2 18 (9.730 %) Pensions 3 12 (6.486 %) Marketing 4 9 (4.865 %) Health 5 3 (1.622 %) 3D Graphics 5 3 (1.622 %) Electronics 5 3 (1.622 %) Education 6 2 (1.081 %) Construction 6 2 (1.081 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.541 %) Games 7 1 (0.541 %) Multimedia 7 1 (0.541 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 153 (82.70 %) Developer 2 85 (45.95 %) .NET Developer 3 73 (39.46 %) Web Developer 4 66 (35.68 %) C# Developer 5 42 (22.70 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 35 (18.92 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 32 (17.30 %) .NET Web Developer 8 30 (16.22 %) C# Web Developer 9 22 (11.89 %) Senior Developer 10 18 (9.730 %) Senior Web Developer 11 17 (9.189 %) Junior 12 15 (8.108 %) Junior Developer 13 11 (5.946 %) Software Developer 13 11 (5.946 %) Junior C# Developer 14 10 (5.405 %) Applications Developer 14 10 (5.405 %) Lead Developer 14 10 (5.405 %) VB.NET Developer 15 8 (4.324 %) Senior .NET Developer 15 8 (4.324 %) Junior .NET Developer 15 8 (4.324 %) C# Application Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (3.784 %) Social Network 2 5 (2.703 %) N-Tier 3 4 (2.162 %) Firmware 3 4 (2.162 %) Computer Science 4 3 (1.622 %) Physics 5 2 (1.081 %) Blog 6 1 (0.541 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.541 %) Robotics
Operating Systems 1 71 (38.38 %) Windows 2 20 (10.81 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (2.703 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (2.162 %) Windows NT 4 4 (2.162 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (1.081 %) Windows CE 5 2 (1.081 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (18.38 %) Web Development 2 16 (8.649 %) Requirements Analysis 2 16 (8.649 %) Web Design 3 14 (7.568 %) Content Management 4 13 (7.027 %) Project Management 5 10 (5.405 %) DSDM 6 9 (4.865 %) Workflow 7 8 (4.324 %) Digital Marketing 8 7 (3.784 %) Migration 9 6 (3.243 %) CRM 9 6 (3.243 %) Unit Testing 10 5 (2.703 %) Business Intelligence 10 5 (2.703 %) OOP 10 5 (2.703 %) OO 11 4 (2.162 %) Software Testing 12 3 (1.622 %) Internet Marketing 13 2 (1.081 %) Network Load Balancing 13 2 (1.081 %) OOD 13 2 (1.081 %) Agile Software Development 13 2 (1.081 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 143 (77.30 %) C# 2 88 (47.57 %) SQL 3 74 (40.00 %) JavaScript 4 55 (29.73 %) VB 5 45 (24.32 %) VB.NET 6 31 (16.76 %) VB6 7 23 (12.43 %) VBScript 8 18 (9.730 %) DHTML 9 15 (8.108 %) C++ 9 15 (8.108 %) VBA 10 13 (7.027 %) ActionScript 11 11 (5.946 %) Transact-SQL 12 8 (4.324 %) C 13 5 (2.703 %) Java 14 4 (2.162 %) Embedded C 14 4 (2.162 %) Embedded C++ 15 3 (1.622 %) VC++ 16 2 (1.081 %) XPath 16 2 (1.081 %) PowerShell 17 1 (0.541 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 18 (9.730 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (9.189 %) Degree 3 10 (5.405 %) MCSD 4 5 (2.703 %) MCAD 5 1 (0.541 %) MOS
Vendors 1 55 (29.73 %) Microsoft 2 6 (3.243 %) Adobe 3 4 (2.162 %) Macromedia 4 2 (1.081 %) Progress 5 1 (0.541 %) Oracle 5 1 (0.541 %) UGS