England Visual Studio Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the England 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carnforth Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilkley Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Lothian Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maldon 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 Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Paisley Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pulborough Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Torfaen Torquay Truro Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	123
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	3406	3612
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.891 %	1.521 %
As % of the category below	21.83 %	18.61 %
Salaries quoted	3094	3069
Average minimum salary	£32,917	£35,017
Average salary	£35,823	£38,236
% change on same period last year	-6.30 %
Average maximum salary	£38,730	£41,455
UK excluding London average salary	£33,573	£35,312
% change on same period last year	-4.92 %
Development Applications England
Matching permanent IT job ads	15602	19409
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	8.663 %	8.176 %
Salaries quoted	13367	15642
Average minimum salary	£36,304	£37,392
Average salary	£39,596	£40,682
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
Average maximum salary	£42,888	£43,972
UK excluding London average salary	£35,089	£36,009
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
Visual Studio UK

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the England 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 England region.

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the England region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Visual Studio
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the England region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
London	0	961	£42,536	-3.17 %
South East	+1	710	£36,122	-4.20 %
East of England	+34	438	£34,364	-9.11 %
South West	+35	356	£33,313	+5.76 %
North West	+54	313	£29,840	-12.51 %
Yorkshire	+20	308	£32,703	+2.31 %
East Midlands	+2	176	£32,558	+1.27 %
West Midlands	-23	167	£30,606	-10.87 %
North East	+5	27	£31,500	-6.45 %
Midlands	+5	3	£35,000	+21.52 %

Visual Studio UK

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 5875 (82.27 %) .NET 2 4677 (65.50 %) C# 3 4579 (64.12 %) SQL Server 4 3899 (54.60 %) ASP.NET 5 2614 (36.61 %) SQL 6 2552 (35.74 %) Microsoft 7 2540 (35.57 %) XML 8 1910 (26.75 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1900 (26.61 %) Windows 10 1798 (25.18 %) HTML 11 1747 (24.46 %) VB.NET 12 1707 (23.90 %) JavaScript 13 1363 (19.09 %) C++ 14 1334 (18.68 %) WebServices 15 1264 (17.70 %) SQL Server 2000

16 1253 (17.55 %) CSS 17 1152 (16.13 %) OO 18 1111 (15.56 %) MS Excel 19 1105 (15.47 %) VB 20 1092 (15.29 %) ASP 21 1079 (15.11 %) .NET Framework 22 1067 (14.94 %) Finance 23 1024 (14.34 %) AJAX 24 906 (12.69 %) Degree 25 880 (12.32 %) IIS 26 866 (12.13 %) Transact-SQL 27 599 (8.388 %) XSLT 28 589 (8.248 %) Oracle 29 587 (8.220 %) Pensions 30 559 (7.828 %) SharePoint

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 5875 (82.27 %) .NET 2 3899 (54.60 %) ASP.NET 3 2540 (35.57 %) XML 4 1798 (25.18 %) HTML 5 1334 (18.68 %) WebServices 6 1253 (17.55 %) CSS 7 1092 (15.29 %) ASP 8 1079 (15.11 %) .NET Framework 9 1024 (14.34 %) AJAX 10 599 (8.388 %) XSLT 11 546 (7.646 %) WinForms 12 541 (7.576 %) XHTML 13 366 (5.125 %) MFC 14 326 (4.565 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 285 (3.991 %) ADO.NET 16 280 (3.921 %) XSL 17 211 (2.955 %) WCF 18 146 (2.045 %) COM 19 135 (1.890 %) WPF 20 119 (1.666 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 880 (12.32 %) IIS 2 559 (7.828 %) SharePoint 3 279 (3.907 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 248 (3.473 %) BizTalk Server 5 158 (2.213 %) CMS 6 68 (0.952 %) ColdFusion 6 68 (0.952 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 53 (0.742 %) Apache 8 50 (0.700 %) MS Exchange 9 26 (0.364 %) Commerce Server 10 22 (0.308 %) MTS 11 21 (0.294 %) Tomcat 12 18 (0.252 %) MapXtreme 13 14 (0.196 %) Commerce Server 2007 14 13 (0.182 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 11 (0.154 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 10 (0.140 %) ColdFusion MX 16 10 (0.140 %) DotNetNuke 17 9 (0.126 %) Content Management Server 18 8 (0.112 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 1111 (15.56 %) MS Excel 2 313 (4.383 %) MS Office 3 251 (3.515 %) Photoshop 4 77 (1.078 %) MS Visio 5 52 (0.728 %) MS Project 6 41 (0.574 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 38 (0.532 %) InfoPath 8 29 (0.406 %) MS PowerPoint 9 27 (0.378 %) Fireworks 10 23 (0.322 %) MATLAB 11 20 (0.280 %) Simulink 12 10 (0.140 %) Adobe Director 13 8 (0.112 %) AutoCAD 14 6 (0.084 %) Acrobat 15 5 (0.070 %) Paint Shop Pro 15 5 (0.070 %) PrintSoft PReS 16 3 (0.042 %) InDesign 16 3 (0.042 %) ImageReady 17 2 (0.028 %) Spreadsheet 18 1 (0.014 %) DOC1	Business Applications 1 89 (1.246 %) Microsoft CRM 2 34 (0.476 %) Summit 3 21 (0.294 %) Dynamics CRM 4 14 (0.196 %) Axapta 5 11 (0.154 %) Navision 6 10 (0.140 %) Dynamics NAV 7 8 (0.112 %) CODA Dream 8 6 (0.084 %) LabWindows 9 2 (0.028 %) Dynamics AX 9 2 (0.028 %) Beauchamp 9 2 (0.028 %) Staffware 9 2 (0.028 %) Great Plains 10 1 (0.014 %) Capstone 10 1 (0.014 %) Oracle Applications 10 1 (0.014 %) Teamcenter 10 1 (0.014 %) SAP Business One 10 1 (0.014 %) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 529 (7.408 %) Internet 2 266 (3.725 %) Intranet 3 110 (1.540 %) TCP/IP 4 57 (0.798 %) HTTP 5 45 (0.630 %) LAN 6 44 (0.616 %) Extranet 7 41 (0.574 %) WAN 8 37 (0.518 %) GSM 9 33 (0.462 %) GPRS 10 32 (0.448 %) FTP 11 28 (0.392 %) Firewall 12 25 (0.350 %) SMTP 13 24 (0.336 %) Wireless 14 23 (0.322 %) SSL 15 19 (0.266 %) SSH 16 18 (0.252 %) DNS 17 17 (0.238 %) Reverse Proxy 18 15 (0.210 %) Wi-Fi 18 15 (0.210 %) HTTPS 19 14 (0.196 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4579 (64.12 %) SQL Server 2 1910 (26.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1264 (17.70 %) SQL Server 2000 4 357 (4.999 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 258 (3.613 %) Crystal Reports 6 221 (3.095 %) MySQL 7 216 (3.025 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 153 (2.143 %) DTS 9 141 (1.975 %) MS Access 10 139 (1.947 %) RDBMS 11 82 (1.148 %) Datawarehouse 12 81 (1.134 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 77 (1.078 %) SQL Server 2008 14 66 (0.924 %) Oracle 9i 15 65 (0.910 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 16 50 (0.700 %) ETL 17 48 (0.672 %) Oracle 10g 18 47 (0.658 %) OLAP 19 43 (0.602 %) GIS 20 33 (0.462 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 362 (5.069 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 235 (3.291 %) Flash 3 219 (3.067 %) NUnit 4 149 (2.087 %) Subversion 5 139 (1.947 %) Visual Studio Team System 6 132 (1.848 %) Dreamweaver 7 58 (0.812 %) ClearCase 8 51 (0.714 %) CruiseControl 9 48 (0.672 %) MSI 10 41 (0.574 %) InstallShield 11 35 (0.490 %) Eclipse 11 35 (0.490 %) TestDirector 12 30 (0.420 %) QuickTest Pro 12 30 (0.420 %) C++Builder 13 29 (0.406 %) WinRunner 14 28 (0.392 %) Rational Rose 15 25 (0.350 %) PVCS 16 16 (0.224 %) Ant 17 15 (0.210 %) Bugzilla 18 12 (0.168 %) SilkTest	General 1 1067 (14.94 %) Finance 2 587 (8.220 %) Pensions 3 371 (5.195 %) Insurance 4 317 (4.439 %) Health 5 261 (3.655 %) Marketing 6 177 (2.479 %) Retail 7 154 (2.157 %) Banking 8 146 (2.045 %) Education 9 143 (2.003 %) Games 10 99 (1.386 %) Telecoms 11 93 (1.302 %) Back Office 12 92 (1.288 %) Graphic Design 13 89 (1.246 %) Government 14 75 (1.050 %) Automotive 15 65 (0.910 %) Front Office 16 59 (0.826 %) 3D Graphics 17 57 (0.798 %) Legal 18 56 (0.784 %) Construction 19 50 (0.700 %) Publishing 20 47 (0.658 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 4918 (68.87 %) Developer 2 2252 (31.54 %) .NET Developer 3 1488 (20.84 %) C# Developer 4 985 (13.79 %) Web Developer 5 741 (10.38 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 674 (9.438 %) Software Engineer 7 608 (8.514 %) Software Developer 8 546 (7.646 %) Senior Developer 9 545 (7.632 %) Analyst 10 527 (7.380 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 402 (5.629 %) Programmer 12 330 (4.621 %) .NET Web Developer 13 322 (4.509 %) VB.NET Developer 14 301 (4.215 %) C++ Developer 15 280 (3.921 %) Applications Developer 16 276 (3.865 %) Junior 17 253 (3.543 %) Senior .NET Developer 18 244 (3.417 %) Junior Developer 19 216 (3.025 %) Analyst Programmer 20 211 (2.955 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 316 (4.425 %) N-Tier 2 188 (2.633 %) Computer Science 3 162 (2.269 %) Client/Server 4 92 (1.288 %) Mathematics 5 82 (1.148 %) Web 2.0 6 77 (1.078 %) W3C 7 47 (0.658 %) Device Driver 8 40 (0.560 %) Management Information System 9 36 (0.504 %) Derivative 10 35 (0.490 %) Physics 11 34 (0.476 %) PDA 12 33 (0.462 %) Social Network 13 28 (0.392 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 13 28 (0.392 %) Multithreading 14 25 (0.350 %) Handset 14 25 (0.350 %) Artificial Intelligence 15 21 (0.294 %) PKI 16 20 (0.280 %) Replication 16 20 (0.280 %) Fixed Income 17 17 (0.238 %) Equities
Operating Systems 1 1900 (26.61 %) Windows 2 429 (6.008 %) Windows Server 2003 3 251 (3.515 %) Windows XP 4 232 (3.249 %) Linux 5 154 (2.157 %) Windows Vista 6 126 (1.764 %) Windows 2000 7 123 (1.722 %) UNIX 8 59 (0.826 %) Windows Mobile 9 58 (0.812 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 35 (0.490 %) VxWorks 11 33 (0.462 %) Windows NT 12 32 (0.448 %) Windows CE 13 15 (0.210 %) Windows XP Embedded 14 14 (0.196 %) pSOS 14 14 (0.196 %) Solaris 15 13 (0.182 %) Windows Server 2008 16 12 (0.168 %) ThreadX 17 8 (0.112 %) AIX 17 8 (0.112 %) Mac OS X 18 6 (0.084 %) Symbian OS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1152 (16.13 %) OO 2 559 (7.828 %) Web Development 3 548 (7.674 %) UML 4 314 (4.397 %) E-Commerce 5 286 (4.005 %) Agile Software Development 6 241 (3.375 %) Project Management 7 239 (3.347 %) Unit Testing 8 227 (3.179 %) OOP 9 207 (2.899 %) CRM 10 189 (2.647 %) OOD 11 174 (2.437 %) Software Engineering 12 158 (2.213 %) Scrum 13 138 (1.933 %) Content Management 14 134 (1.876 %) Web Design 15 118 (1.652 %) SOA 16 113 (1.582 %) Business Intelligence 17 98 (1.372 %) Configuration Management 18 86 (1.204 %) SEO 18 86 (1.204 %) Migration 19 80 (1.120 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 4677 (65.50 %) C# 2 2614 (36.61 %) SQL 3 1747 (24.46 %) VB.NET 4 1707 (23.90 %) JavaScript 5 1363 (19.09 %) C++ 6 1105 (15.47 %) VB 7 866 (12.13 %) Transact-SQL 8 525 (7.352 %) C 9 510 (7.142 %) VB6 10 387 (5.419 %) VBScript 11 345 (4.831 %) Java 12 239 (3.347 %) VC++ 13 207 (2.899 %) PHP 14 197 (2.759 %) VBA 15 185 (2.591 %) DHTML 16 183 (2.563 %) PL/SQL 17 120 (1.680 %) Delphi 18 115 (1.610 %) ActionScript 19 87 (1.218 %) Perl 20 52 (0.728 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 906 (12.69 %) Degree 2 384 (5.377 %) Microsoft Certification 3 152 (2.129 %) MCSD 4 101 (1.414 %) MCAD 5 87 (1.218 %) MCP 6 73 (1.022 %) MCPD 7 67 (0.938 %) MCTS 8 40 (0.560 %) HNC 9 33 (0.462 %) MCDBA 10 30 (0.420 %) ISEB 11 28 (0.392 %) MCITP 12 18 (0.252 %) MCSE 13 17 (0.238 %) HND 14 15 (0.210 %) MCSA 15 11 (0.154 %) PhD 16 10 (0.140 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 7 (0.098 %) MCT 18 6 (0.084 %) Postgraduate 19 4 (0.056 %) ITIL Certification 19 4 (0.056 %) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 116 (1.624 %) QA 2 39 (0.546 %) SLA 3 31 (0.434 %) ISO9001 4 8 (0.112 %) 21 CFR Part 11 4 8 (0.112 %) HL7 5 7 (0.098 %) WCAG 6 6 (0.084 %) WAI 7 5 (0.070 %) DICOM 8 2 (0.028 %) JTAG 9 1 (0.014 %) ISO9000 9 1 (0.014 %) Basel II 9 1 (0.014 %) ISO12207	System Software 1 87 (1.218 %) Active Directory 2 42 (0.588 %) MSMQ 3 15 (0.210 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 13 (0.182 %) Terminal Services 5 2 (0.028 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.028 %) Terminal Server 5 2 (0.028 %) AquaLogic 6 1 (0.014 %) Xen 6 1 (0.014 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 11 (0.154 %) MIIS 1 11 (0.154 %) MOM 2 7 (0.098 %) OpenView 2 7 (0.098 %) OVSD 3 1 (0.014 %) ServiceCenter 3 1 (0.014 %) SCOM 3 1 (0.014 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 2552 (35.74 %) Microsoft 2 589 (8.248 %) Oracle 3 105 (1.470 %) Adobe 4 56 (0.784 %) Borland 5 48 (0.672 %) Citrix 6 45 (0.630 %) Macromedia 7 40 (0.560 %) Perforce 8 39 (0.546 %) Sybase 9 30 (0.420 %) IBM 9 30 (0.420 %) Reuters 10 27 (0.378 %) Bloomberg 11 26 (0.364 %) Business Objects 12 25 (0.350 %) SAP 12 25 (0.350 %) Google 13 23 (0.322 %) Symbian 14 21 (0.294 %) Siebel 15 19 (0.266 %) HP 16 17 (0.238 %) Intel 17 16 (0.224 %) Cognos 18 15 (0.210 %) ESRI