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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 21 35 22
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 14 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 8.642% 0.500% 2.586%
As % of the Development Applications category 82.35% 4.000% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 3
Average salary £22,500 £30,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 25 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 10.49% 12.50% 8.621%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 10
Average salary £22,500 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.82% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £27,500 £27,450
10% offered a salary of more than £27,450 £35,250 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
West Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 25 (100.00%) C#
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (96.00%) SQL Server
3 18 (72.00%) ASP.NET
3 18 (72.00%) VB
4 17 (68.00%) Web Services
4 17 (68.00%) MVC
5 12 (48.00%) SQL
5 12 (48.00%) Oracle
5 12 (48.00%) ASP
6 11 (44.00%) MySQL
7 10 (40.00%) Subversion
8 7 (28.00%) T-SQL
9 6 (24.00%) C++
9 6 (24.00%) HTML
9 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (24.00%) IIS
9 6 (24.00%) CSS
9 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
9 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (24.00%) Infragistics
9 6 (24.00%) WinForms
10 5 (20.00%) Back Office
10 5 (20.00%) VB6
10 5 (20.00%) Ajax
10 5 (20.00%) Marketing
10 5 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (20.00%) WordPress
10 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
10 5 (20.00%) N-Tier

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (72.00%) ASP.NET
3 17 (68.00%) Web Services
4 12 (48.00%) ASP
5 6 (24.00%) HTML
5 6 (24.00%) CSS
5 6 (24.00%) WinForms
6 5 (20.00%) Ajax
6 5 (20.00%) XML
7 4 (16.00%) CSLA
8 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
9 1 (4.000%) CSLA.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) IIS
2 5 (20.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (96.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (44.00%) MySQL
3 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Subversion
2 5 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (20.00%) Back Office
1 5 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Developer
2 16 (64.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.000%) WinForms Developer
5 1 (4.000%) CRM Developer
5 1 (4.000%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) MVC
2 5 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (16.00%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (16.00%) OOD
4 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.000%) OO
4 1 (4.000%) ERP
4 1 (4.000%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) C#
2 18 (72.00%) VB
3 12 (48.00%) SQL
4 7 (28.00%) T-SQL
5 6 (24.00%) C++
5 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (20.00%) VB6
6 5 (20.00%) PHP
6 5 (20.00%) VB.NET
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Infragistics
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft