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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 47 45 46
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 38 71 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 3.838% 5.156% 4.848%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.23% 23.51% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 33 69 61
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
130 302 197
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 13.13% 21.93% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 111 260 171
Average salary £42,750 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.87% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
East of England

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

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

Essex Visual Studio Salary Histogram

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Colchester -4 5 £55,000 +46.66%
Basildon -18 3 £24,500 -24.61%
Brentwood - 3 - -
Billericay +5 2 £32,500 +58.53%
Waltham Abbey - 2 £34,750 -
Visual Studio
East of England

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 64 (70.33%) .NET
2 56 (61.54%) C#
2 56 (61.54%) ASP.NET
3 55 (60.44%) SQL
3 55 (60.44%) SQL Server
4 45 (49.45%) Windows
5 37 (40.66%) Finance
6 34 (37.36%) VB.NET
7 32 (35.16%) IIS
7 32 (35.16%) JavaScript
7 32 (35.16%) HTML
8 30 (32.97%) CSS
9 29 (31.87%) MVC
10 28 (30.77%) jQuery
11 27 (29.67%) Microsoft
12 24 (26.37%) Degree
13 23 (25.27%) WCF
14 21 (23.08%) WinForms
15 20 (21.98%) XML
16 19 (20.88%) MySQL
17 18 (19.78%) MS Excel
18 15 (16.48%) Web Services
18 15 (16.48%) Delphi
19 14 (15.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
20 12 (13.19%) WPF
20 12 (13.19%) Java
20 12 (13.19%) SQL Server 2008
21 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET MVC
21 11 (12.09%) MVVM
21 11 (12.09%) Subversion

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 64 (70.33%) .NET
2 56 (61.54%) ASP.NET
3 32 (35.16%) HTML
4 30 (32.97%) CSS
5 28 (30.77%) jQuery
6 23 (25.27%) WCF
7 21 (23.08%) WinForms
8 20 (21.98%) XML
9 15 (16.48%) Web Services
10 12 (13.19%) WPF
11 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (10.99%) Ajax
12 10 (10.99%) .NET Framework
13 9 (9.890%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 9 (9.890%) LINQ
14 7 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 7 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 2
15 5 (5.495%) Node.js
16 3 (3.297%) SOAP
16 3 (3.297%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 32 (35.16%) IIS
2 6 (6.593%) Umbraco
2 6 (6.593%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.198%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.198%) MSMQ
4 1 (1.099%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.099%) CMS
4 1 (1.099%) Liferay
Applications
1 18 (19.78%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.396%) MS Office
3 2 (2.198%) InfoPath
3 2 (2.198%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.099%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.099%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.396%) VoIP
2 2 (2.198%) Cisco ICM
2 2 (2.198%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (2.198%) Intranet
2 2 (2.198%) Extranet
2 2 (2.198%) FTP
3 1 (1.099%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (60.44%) SQL Server
2 19 (20.88%) MySQL
3 12 (13.19%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (10.99%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (4.396%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.297%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.099%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.099%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.099%) MS Access
7 1 (1.099%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.099%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 1 (1.099%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.099%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 11 (12.09%) Subversion
3 5 (5.495%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (4.396%) NUnit
5 1 (1.099%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.099%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.099%) Redmine
5 1 (1.099%) MSTest
5 1 (1.099%) TortoiseSVN
5 1 (1.099%) PROIV
5 1 (1.099%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (1.099%) Git (software)
General
1 37 (40.66%) Finance
2 8 (8.791%) Financial Institution
3 6 (6.593%) Back Office
4 2 (2.198%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.099%) Advertising
5 1 (1.099%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (90.11%) Developer
2 34 (37.36%) .NET Developer
3 22 (24.18%) Junior Developer
3 22 (24.18%) Junior
4 19 (20.88%) C# Developer
5 14 (15.38%) Analyst
6 13 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 13 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
6 13 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
6 13 (14.29%) Junior Analyst Developer
7 12 (13.19%) VB.NET Developer
8 10 (10.99%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (8.791%) SQL Developer
9 8 (8.791%) Junior C# Developer
10 7 (7.692%) Applications Developer
11 6 (6.593%) .NET Applications Developer
11 6 (6.593%) Software Manager
12 5 (5.495%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
13 3 (3.297%) Software Engineer
14 2 (2.198%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.692%) N-Tier
2 3 (3.297%) Blog
3 2 (2.198%) RIA
3 2 (2.198%) CUDA
3 2 (2.198%) Social Media
4 1 (1.099%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.099%) Physics
4 1 (1.099%) PDA
4 1 (1.099%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 45 (49.45%) Windows
2 3 (3.297%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (3.297%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (2.198%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.099%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) MVC
2 11 (12.09%) MVVM
3 9 (9.890%) Web Development
4 8 (8.791%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (7.692%) Change Control
6 6 (6.593%) OOD
7 4 (4.396%) Software Testing
7 4 (4.396%) Unit Testing
8 3 (3.297%) Project Management
8 3 (3.297%) Code Coverage
8 3 (3.297%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (3.297%) Dependency Injection
9 2 (2.198%) Image Processing
9 2 (2.198%) Multithreading
9 2 (2.198%) Software Engineering
9 2 (2.198%) Systems Analysis
9 2 (2.198%) TDD
9 2 (2.198%) OO
10 1 (1.099%) EAI
10 1 (1.099%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 56 (61.54%) C#
2 55 (60.44%) SQL
3 34 (37.36%) VB.NET
4 32 (35.16%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.48%) Delphi
6 12 (13.19%) Java
7 10 (10.99%) C++
8 7 (7.692%) PHP
8 7 (7.692%) XAML
9 6 (6.593%) VB
10 5 (5.495%) T-SQL
10 5 (5.495%) Objective-C
11 3 (3.297%) Tcl
12 2 (2.198%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.198%) XPath
12 2 (2.198%) VB6
13 1 (1.099%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.099%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.198%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.198%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.692%) DevExpress
3 4 (4.396%) Oracle
4 2 (2.198%) Cisco
5 1 (1.099%) IBM
5 1 (1.099%) Informatica
5 1 (1.099%) Google
5 1 (1.099%) Talend
Billericay, Essex
30k-£35K plus bonus and stock options An established company are looking for an outstanding Software Developer with strong .NET skills to join their growing team. As the...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 to £35000 per annum - plus Bonus and Stock Options
Posted: 19 May 2013
Waltham Abbey, Essex
Knowledge of SQL, CAML or SSRS. Exposure to Microsoft technologies including; Visual Studio, Visio or InfoPath. Exposure to web technologies including; XML, SOAP, Web Services, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £34000 - £38000 per annum + Exc. Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Waltham Abbey, Essex
d) C# and ASP.Net development experience. e) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, Microsoft InfoPath 2010 experience... g) WCF, WPF and BDC experience... i) SQL, CAML,...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 30000 - 35000
Posted: 21 May 2013
Colchester, Essex
Strong C#/C++ programming using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows... As well as strong C# / C++ skills you will ideally have some experience of WPF / XAML for developing...
Technical Futures
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
C#, WPF and Python development. STL and/or Boost... Qualifications: The candidate should have a good university degree in a technical subject (Software Engineering, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Mathematics,...
Illumina
Salary: From £28,000 to £38,000 per annum + pension, company shares, private h
Posted: 9 May 2013
Essex, South East
Key skills: Good understanding and experience of image processing and analysis C++ development in a multithreaded environment Use of appropriate code management and issue tracking tools Good numerical...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013