The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 20 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 30 15 21
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +6
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 5 27 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 2.315% 12.16% 6.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.41% 61.36% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5 24 10
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £46,400 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 44 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 7.870% 19.82% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 41
Average salary £32,500 £33,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.51% -10.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Hertfordshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Hemel Hempstead region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Hemel Hempstead Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 20 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (90.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (75.00%) C#
4 14 (70.00%) SQL
5 13 (65.00%) CSS
5 13 (65.00%) jQuery
6 12 (60.00%) .NET Framework
6 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (55.00%) Ajax
8 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
9 9 (45.00%) HTML
9 9 (45.00%) Windows
10 8 (40.00%) OO
10 8 (40.00%) XML
11 7 (35.00%) Web Services
11 7 (35.00%) REST
12 6 (30.00%) COBOL
12 6 (30.00%) VB
12 6 (30.00%) Retail
12 6 (30.00%) Migration
13 5 (25.00%) MVC
13 5 (25.00%) Web Design
13 5 (25.00%) TDD
13 5 (25.00%) Oracle
13 5 (25.00%) XHTML
13 5 (25.00%) CSS3
13 5 (25.00%) WCF
13 5 (25.00%) JSON
13 5 (25.00%) HTML5
14 4 (20.00%) BDD

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 20 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (90.00%) ASP.NET
3 13 (65.00%) CSS
3 13 (65.00%) jQuery
4 12 (60.00%) .NET Framework
5 11 (55.00%) Ajax
6 9 (45.00%) HTML
7 8 (40.00%) XML
8 7 (35.00%) Web Services
8 7 (35.00%) REST
9 5 (25.00%) CSS3
9 5 (25.00%) JSON
9 5 (25.00%) WCF
9 5 (25.00%) HTML5
9 5 (25.00%) XHTML
10 4 (20.00%) WinForms
10 4 (20.00%) WPF
11 2 (10.00%) WSDL
11 2 (10.00%) VXML
11 2 (10.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Subversion
1 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.000%) QUnit
2 1 (5.000%) Jasmine
General
1 6 (30.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) C# Developer
2 9 (45.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 7 (35.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (25.00%) .NET Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
6 2 (10.00%) Lead .NET Developer
6 2 (10.00%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (5.000%) Software Development Team Leader
7 1 (5.000%) .NET Applications Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Software Manager
7 1 (5.000%) Software Team Leader
7 1 (5.000%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (5.000%) Software Development Manager
7 1 (5.000%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) IVR
1 2 (10.00%) Speech Recognition
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (10.00%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.000%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Solaris
2 4 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) OO
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Web Design
3 5 (25.00%) TDD
3 5 (25.00%) MVC
4 4 (20.00%) SOA
4 4 (20.00%) Web Development
4 4 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) OOD
6 2 (10.00%) WFM
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (5.000%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (5.000%) TOGAF
7 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (5.000%) SEO
7 1 (5.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) C#
2 14 (70.00%) SQL
3 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (30.00%) COBOL
4 6 (30.00%) VB
5 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (20.00%) Korn
5 4 (20.00%) Bourne shell
5 4 (20.00%) Bash shell
5 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (20.00%) Perl
6 2 (10.00%) PHP
6 2 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) BT