The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 31 38 97
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +59
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 63 58 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 5.921% 4.243% 0.504%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.06% 31.18% 7.767%
Number of salaries quoted 39 42 8
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +29.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £29,200 £22,550
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
170 186 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 15.98% 13.61% 6.494%
Number of salaries quoted 111 130 84
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Scotland

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

1 118 (98.33%) .NET
2 111 (92.50%) C#
3 95 (79.17%) SQL Server
4 78 (65.00%) ASP.NET
5 59 (49.17%) Degree
6 55 (45.83%) Microsoft
7 48 (40.00%) .NET Framework
8 43 (35.83%) JavaScript
9 42 (35.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 36 (30.00%) MVC
10 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 35 (29.17%) Windows
12 34 (28.33%) WCF
13 32 (26.67%) Finance
14 31 (25.83%) CSS
14 31 (25.83%) SQL Server 2008
15 30 (25.00%) jQuery
15 30 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 30 (25.00%) Scrum
16 28 (23.33%) MS Excel
17 25 (20.83%) Unit Testing
17 25 (20.83%) Computer Science
18 24 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
18 24 (20.00%) HTML
19 23 (19.17%) ASP.NET MVC 3
20 21 (17.50%) Ethernet
20 21 (17.50%) TDD
21 17 (14.17%) SQL
22 16 (13.33%) Ajax
22 16 (13.33%) Wi-Fi

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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
1 118 (98.33%) .NET
2 78 (65.00%) ASP.NET
3 48 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 34 (28.33%) WCF
6 31 (25.83%) CSS
7 30 (25.00%) jQuery
7 30 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 24 (20.00%) HTML
9 23 (19.17%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 16 (13.33%) Ajax
11 15 (12.50%) Middleware
12 12 (10.00%) XML
13 9 (7.500%) NHibernate
13 9 (7.500%) CSS3
13 9 (7.500%) WinForms
14 8 (6.667%) Web Services
15 7 (5.833%) HTML5
16 6 (5.000%) JSON
16 6 (5.000%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.500%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.000%) Windows Azure
3 3 (2.500%) MSMQ
3 3 (2.500%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (2.500%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.667%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (1.667%) IIS
5 1 (0.833%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.833%) Apache
5 1 (0.833%) CMS
5 1 (0.833%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (23.33%) MS Excel
2 6 (5.000%) MS Project
3 2 (1.667%) MS Office
4 1 (0.833%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.833%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.833%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.833%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) Ethernet
2 16 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (79.17%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (7.500%) SQL Server 2012
3 9 (7.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (5.833%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (3.333%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (2.500%) SQLite
7 2 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.833%) MS Access
8 1 (0.833%) TOAD
8 1 (0.833%) GIS
Development Applications
1 42 (35.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (9.167%) Subversion
3 7 (5.833%) MSTest
4 5 (4.167%) Selenium
5 4 (3.333%) Git (software)
6 3 (2.500%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.500%) JUnit
6 3 (2.500%) Xcode
7 1 (0.833%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.833%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.833%) CruiseControl
7 1 (0.833%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.833%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.833%) WatiN
7 1 (0.833%) MSBuild
General
1 32 (26.67%) Finance
2 5 (4.167%) Electronics
3 3 (2.500%) Publishing
4 2 (1.667%) Banking
5 1 (0.833%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (84.17%) Developer
2 45 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 38 (31.67%) C# Developer
4 21 (17.50%) Senior Developer
5 20 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 16 (13.33%) Software Developer
7 13 (10.83%) Analyst
8 12 (10.00%) Junior Developer
8 12 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
8 12 (10.00%) Programmer
8 12 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
8 12 (10.00%) Junior
8 12 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 11 (9.167%) .NET Analyst Programmer
9 11 (9.167%) .NET Programmer
9 11 (9.167%) C# Analyst Programmer
9 11 (9.167%) C# Programmer
10 10 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 9 (7.500%) ASP.NET Programmer
11 9 (7.500%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.83%) Computer Science
2 16 (13.33%) Mobile Computing
3 9 (7.500%) Mathematics
3 9 (7.500%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.000%) Web 2.0
5 5 (4.167%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.167%) Visualisation
5 5 (4.167%) CUDA
6 1 (0.833%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.833%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.833%) iPhone
6 1 (0.833%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.17%) Windows
2 5 (4.167%) UNIX
2 5 (4.167%) Android
3 3 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.833%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) MVC
2 30 (25.00%) Scrum
3 25 (20.83%) Unit Testing
4 24 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (17.50%) TDD
6 13 (10.83%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (7.500%) Project Management
8 8 (6.667%) Software Engineering
9 6 (5.000%) PRINCE2
10 5 (4.167%) Performance Testing
10 5 (4.167%) Web Development
11 4 (3.333%) Web Application Development
11 4 (3.333%) Analytics
11 4 (3.333%) Investment Management
11 4 (3.333%) Data Modelling
11 4 (3.333%) SOA
12 3 (2.500%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (2.500%) Software Testing
12 3 (2.500%) Time Management
12 3 (2.500%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 111 (92.50%) C#
2 43 (35.83%) JavaScript
3 17 (14.17%) SQL
4 14 (11.67%) VB.NET
5 5 (4.167%) VC++
5 5 (4.167%) C
5 5 (4.167%) C++
6 4 (3.333%) Objective-C
6 4 (3.333%) VBA
6 4 (3.333%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.500%) Java
8 1 (0.833%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (49.17%) Degree
2 8 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.333%) MCPD
3 4 (3.333%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.833%) ISEB
Vendors
1 55 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.667%) Oracle
3 2 (1.667%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.667%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.833%) Sun
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