Leeds Visual Studio Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Studio skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Studio
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carnforth Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilkley Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pulborough Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Rutland Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Torfaen Torquay Truro Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	72
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	81	102
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	30.00 %	24.94 %
Salaries quoted	70	94
Average minimum salary	£30,829	£29,543
Average salary	£33,129	£30,484
% change on same period last year	+8.67 %
Average maximum salary	£35,429	£31,426
UK excluding London average salary	£33,561	£35,260
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Development Applications Leeds
Matching permanent IT job ads	270	409
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.170 %
Salaries quoted	239	331
Average minimum salary	£29,350	£29,987
Average salary	£31,358	£32,323
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Average maximum salary	£33,366	£34,659
UK excluding London average salary	£34,999	£36,000
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Visual Studio West Yorkshire

Visual Studio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Visual Studio
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Leeds region.

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 190 (94.06 %) .NET 2 173 (85.64 %) SQL Server 3 159 (78.71 %) ASP.NET 4 158 (78.22 %) C# 5 82 (40.59 %) Microsoft 6 78 (38.61 %) HTML 7 74 (36.63 %) SQL Server 2005 8 71 (35.15 %) XML 9 70 (34.65 %) SQL 10 67 (33.17 %) JavaScript 11 64 (31.68 %) SQL Server 2000 12 60 (29.70 %) CSS 13 59 (29.21 %) Windows 14 51 (25.25 %) VB.NET 15 39 (19.31 %) Finance

16 38 (18.81 %) ASP 17 36 (17.82 %) XSLT 18 33 (16.34 %) XHTML 19 32 (15.84 %) MS Excel 19 32 (15.84 %) Transact-SQL 20 29 (14.36 %) E-Commerce 21 28 (13.86 %) ADO.NET 22 23 (11.39 %) VB 23 22 (10.89 %) IIS 23 22 (10.89 %) WebServices 23 22 (10.89 %) .NET Framework 24 20 (9.901 %) Asset Management 24 20 (9.901 %) Photoshop 25 18 (8.911 %) WinForms 25 18 (8.911 %) OO

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 1 190 (94.06 %) .NET 2 159 (78.71 %) ASP.NET 3 78 (38.61 %) HTML 4 71 (35.15 %) XML 5 60 (29.70 %) CSS 6 38 (18.81 %) ASP 7 36 (17.82 %) XSLT 8 33 (16.34 %) XHTML 9 28 (13.86 %) ADO.NET 10 22 (10.89 %) WebServices 10 22 (10.89 %) .NET Framework 11 18 (8.911 %) WinForms 12 13 (6.436 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 12 (5.941 %) AJAX 13 12 (5.941 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 14 8 (3.960 %) XSL 15 5 (2.475 %) SOAP 16 3 (1.485 %) Java RMI 16 3 (1.485 %) XML Messaging 17 2 (0.990 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 22 (10.89 %) IIS 2 7 (3.465 %) SharePoint 3 4 (1.980 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (1.980 %) CMS 3 4 (1.980 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (1.980 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 32 (15.84 %) MS Excel 2 20 (9.901 %) Photoshop 3 4 (1.980 %) MS Office 4 2 (0.990 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (0.495 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 3 (1.485 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 8 (3.960 %) Internet 2 3 (1.485 %) LAN 2 3 (1.485 %) WAN 2 3 (1.485 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (1.485 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 173 (85.64 %) SQL Server 2 74 (36.63 %) SQL Server 2005 3 64 (31.68 %) SQL Server 2000 4 12 (5.941 %) Crystal Reports 5 9 (4.455 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 9 (4.455 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 6 (2.970 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 6 (2.970 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 5 (2.475 %) Datawarehouse 8 4 (1.980 %) RDBMS 8 4 (1.980 %) MySQL 9 3 (1.485 %) Oracle 10g 9 3 (1.485 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.495 %) MS Access 10 1 (0.495 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 16 (7.921 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 7 (3.465 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (2.475 %) Flash 4 4 (1.980 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 3 (1.485 %) NUnit 6 2 (0.990 %) Subversion	General 1 39 (19.31 %) Finance 2 10 (4.950 %) Automotive 2 10 (4.950 %) Marketing 3 8 (3.960 %) Health 4 7 (3.465 %) Insurance 5 5 (2.475 %) Back Office 6 4 (1.980 %) Pensions 7 2 (0.990 %) Law 8 1 (0.495 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (0.495 %) Games 8 1 (0.495 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 187 (92.57 %) Developer 2 104 (51.49 %) .NET Developer 3 61 (30.20 %) C# Developer 4 45 (22.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 39 (19.31 %) Web Developer 6 37 (18.32 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 20 (9.901 %) Software Developer 8 19 (9.406 %) .NET Web Developer 9 17 (8.416 %) VB.NET Developer 10 15 (7.426 %) Senior Developer 11 13 (6.436 %) Junior 11 13 (6.436 %) C# Web Developer 11 13 (6.436 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 12 12 (5.941 %) Junior Developer 13 9 (4.455 %) Senior .NET Developer 14 8 (3.960 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 15 7 (3.465 %) .NET Programmer 15 7 (3.465 %) Programmer 15 7 (3.465 %) Website Developer 16 6 (2.970 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 18 (8.911 %) N-Tier 2 3 (1.485 %) Mathematics 3 2 (0.990 %) W3C 3 2 (0.990 %) E-Learning 3 2 (0.990 %) Informatics 4 1 (0.495 %) BBC 4 1 (0.495 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.495 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 59 (29.21 %) Windows 2 8 (3.960 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (2.475 %) Windows XP 4 4 (1.980 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (0.990 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (0.990 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (14.36 %) E-Commerce 2 20 (9.901 %) Asset Management 3 18 (8.911 %) OO 4 12 (5.941 %) Web Development 5 10 (4.950 %) Time Management 6 9 (4.455 %) UML 7 6 (2.970 %) Web Design 8 5 (2.475 %) Agile Software Development 8 5 (2.475 %) CRM 8 5 (2.475 %) Data Analysis 8 5 (2.475 %) SOA 9 3 (1.485 %) Project Management 9 3 (1.485 %) Requirements Analysis 9 3 (1.485 %) Migration 10 2 (0.990 %) Workflow 10 2 (0.990 %) Business Intelligence 10 2 (0.990 %) OOP 10 2 (0.990 %) RAD 10 2 (0.990 %) Document Management 10 2 (0.990 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 158 (78.22 %) C# 2 70 (34.65 %) SQL 3 67 (33.17 %) JavaScript 4 51 (25.25 %) VB.NET 5 32 (15.84 %) Transact-SQL 6 23 (11.39 %) VB 7 13 (6.436 %) VB6 8 7 (3.465 %) PHP 9 5 (2.475 %) VBScript 9 5 (2.475 %) ActionScript 10 3 (1.485 %) DHTML 10 3 (1.485 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (0.990 %) C++ 12 1 (0.495 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 11 (5.446 %) Degree 2 7 (3.465 %) MCP 2 7 (3.465 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 3 (1.485 %) Active Directory 1 3 (1.485 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 82 (40.59 %) Microsoft 2 11 (5.446 %) Oracle 3 3 (1.485 %) Symantec 4 1 (0.495 %) Google 4 1 (0.495 %) Altova 4 1 (0.495 %) Macromedia