The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 46 50 31
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 4 8 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 1.653% 1.970% 3.226%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.524% 13.56% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 7
Average salary £26,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.82% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
42 59 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 17.36% 14.53% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 27 45 21
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,400 £32,500 £28,800
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Gloucestershire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 11 (73.33%) C#
1 11 (73.33%) .NET
1 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) HTML
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle
3 7 (46.67%) CSS
4 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (33.33%) XML
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (26.67%) XSD
6 4 (26.67%) XSLT
6 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 4 (26.67%) Automated Testing
6 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
6 4 (26.67%) V-Model
6 4 (26.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (20.00%) jQuery
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (20.00%) VB.NET
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (20.00%) DTS
7 3 (20.00%) MS Visio

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 11 (73.33%) .NET
1 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
2 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 7 (46.67%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) XML
4 4 (26.67%) XSD
4 4 (26.67%) XSLT
5 3 (20.00%) jQuery
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.667%) XHTML
6 1 (6.667%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) CMS
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
1 3 (20.00%) MS Project
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Intranet
1 2 (13.33%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (20.00%) DTS
2 1 (6.667%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Test Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Graduate
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Team Leader
6 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (6.667%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Business Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (26.67%) TDD
2 4 (26.67%) Automated Testing
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (26.67%) V-Model
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
5 1 (6.667%) Test Management
5 1 (6.667%) System Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Change Control
5 1 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (6.667%) VBScript
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) LogiXML
3 1 (6.667%) Business Objects