The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 22 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 Fife region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 14 12 16
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 2 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 4.878% 6.667% 4.545%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 50.00% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 3
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -21.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
8 8 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 19.51% 13.33% 6.061%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 4
Average salary £150,000 £37,500 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+300.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
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 Fife region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Fife 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 Fife region.

Fife Visual Studio Salary Trend

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 Fife region over the 3 months to 22 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
Dunfermline -1 1 £35,000 -
Visual Studio
Scotland

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Testing
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MSMQ
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) InstallShield
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCSD
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft