The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Developer
Rank 137 127 108
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 8 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.303% 0.516% 0.277%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.317% 0.530% 0.285%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 5
Average salary £33,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.35% +6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +13.33%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2527 2077 1753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.79% 97.42% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2052 1793 1487
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Microsoft Developer
West Yorkshire

Microsoft Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Leeds Microsoft Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer across the Leeds region.

Leeds Microsoft Developer Salary Trend

Microsoft Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region that cited Microsoft Developer in their job title 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 with Microsoft Developer in their job title.

1 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (81.25%) MS Excel
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 9 (56.25%) T-SQL
4 8 (50.00%) C#
4 8 (50.00%) .NET
4 8 (50.00%) Finance
4 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (43.75%) Windows
5 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET
5 7 (43.75%) OO
5 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
6 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (37.50%) OLAP
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (31.25%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (31.25%) JIRA
7 5 (31.25%) Perforce
7 5 (31.25%) WinForms
7 5 (31.25%) Middleware
7 5 (31.25%) CMMI
7 5 (31.25%) MVC
7 5 (31.25%) OOD
7 5 (31.25%) SOA

Microsoft Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region that cited Microsoft Developer in their job title 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 with Microsoft Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET
3 5 (31.25%) WinForms
3 5 (31.25%) Middleware
3 5 (31.25%) WCF
3 5 (31.25%) WPF
3 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (31.25%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) Ajax
4 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 2 (12.50%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) XSL
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (6.250%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 13 (81.25%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (25.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (37.50%) OLAP
4 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
7 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (6.250%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (43.75%) OO
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (31.25%) CMMI
3 5 (31.25%) MVC
3 5 (31.25%) OOD
3 5 (31.25%) SOA
3 5 (31.25%) UML
3 5 (31.25%) RUP
3 5 (31.25%) CRM
3 5 (31.25%) Multithreading
4 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (25.00%) ETL
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Web Development
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Web Application Development
6 1 (6.250%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
1 9 (56.25%) T-SQL
2 8 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Perforce
3 4 (25.00%) Cognos