The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 10 36 27
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -9
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 70 21 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 17.59% 5.753% 5.822%
As % of the Development Applications category 72.16% 28.00% 34.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59 19 17
Average salary £38,048 £37,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.46% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
97 75 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 24.37% 20.55% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 86 71 47
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £27,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +35.13%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,000 £19,200
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £41,256 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Leicestershire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leicester Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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.

1 114 (98.28%) .NET
2 112 (96.55%) C#
3 103 (88.79%) ASP.NET
4 79 (68.10%) SQL Server
5 71 (61.21%) Microsoft
6 66 (56.90%) jQuery
7 65 (56.03%) Ajax
8 60 (51.72%) SQL
9 51 (43.97%) UML
10 49 (42.24%) NUnit
11 48 (41.38%) E-Commerce
12 47 (40.52%) CSS
13 46 (39.66%) OWASP
14 42 (36.21%) MVC
15 39 (33.62%) Scrum
16 38 (32.76%) XHTML
17 37 (31.90%) N-Tier
17 37 (31.90%) XML
17 37 (31.90%) Internet
18 36 (31.03%) Extreme Programming
18 36 (31.03%) Marketing
18 36 (31.03%) Web Accessibility
18 36 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
19 35 (30.17%) XSLT
20 34 (29.31%) JavaScript
20 34 (29.31%) ASP.NET MVC
21 33 (28.45%) HTML5
22 32 (27.59%) OO
23 31 (26.72%) CSS3
24 29 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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
1 114 (98.28%) .NET
2 103 (88.79%) ASP.NET
3 66 (56.90%) jQuery
4 65 (56.03%) Ajax
5 47 (40.52%) CSS
6 38 (32.76%) XHTML
7 37 (31.90%) XML
8 35 (30.17%) XSLT
9 34 (29.31%) ASP.NET MVC
10 33 (28.45%) HTML5
11 31 (26.72%) CSS3
12 29 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 29 (25.00%) WCF
13 25 (21.55%) RESTful
13 25 (21.55%) .NET Framework
14 20 (17.24%) Web Services
14 20 (17.24%) HTML
15 9 (7.759%) ASP
16 8 (6.897%) Silverlight
17 3 (2.586%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 28 (24.14%) IIS
2 1 (0.862%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.862%) CMS
2 1 (0.862%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.862%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.862%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 13 (11.21%) MS Excel
2 12 (10.34%) MS Office
3 11 (9.483%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.862%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 37 (31.90%) Internet
2 1 (0.862%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (68.10%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.759%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (5.172%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.586%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.862%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.862%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 49 (42.24%) NUnit
2 9 (7.759%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.862%) NCover
3 1 (0.862%) GitHub
3 1 (0.862%) MorphX
3 1 (0.862%) JIRA
3 1 (0.862%) ReSharper
3 1 (0.862%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (31.03%) Marketing
2 21 (18.10%) Retail
3 10 (8.621%) Finance
4 1 (0.862%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 90 (77.59%) Developer
2 52 (44.83%) .NET Developer
3 29 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 24 (20.69%) ASP.NET Developer
5 23 (19.83%) C# Developer
6 22 (18.97%) C# .NET Developer
7 15 (12.93%) Software Manager
7 15 (12.93%) Software Development Manager
7 15 (12.93%) Development Manager
8 14 (12.07%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 11 (9.483%) Team Leader
10 10 (8.621%) .NET Team Leader
11 8 (6.897%) Senior C# Developer
12 7 (6.034%) Analyst
13 6 (5.172%) Development Team Leader
14 5 (4.310%) Software Developer
14 5 (4.310%) Analyst Developer
14 5 (4.310%) Senior .NET Developer
14 5 (4.310%) Agile C# Developer
15 4 (3.448%) CSS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (31.90%) N-Tier
2 14 (12.07%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.862%) Blog
3 1 (0.862%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (0.862%) W3C
3 1 (0.862%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.862%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.034%) Windows
2 1 (0.862%) Linux
2 1 (0.862%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.862%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.97%) UML
2 48 (41.38%) E-Commerce
3 46 (39.66%) OWASP
4 42 (36.21%) MVC
5 39 (33.62%) Scrum
6 36 (31.03%) Extreme Programming
6 36 (31.03%) Web Accessibility
6 36 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (27.59%) OO
8 18 (15.52%) Web Development
9 14 (12.07%) ITIL
10 11 (9.483%) Project Management
11 10 (8.621%) Regression Testing
11 10 (8.621%) E-business
11 10 (8.621%) Enterprise Architecture
12 7 (6.034%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (5.172%) TDD
13 6 (5.172%) Logistics
14 5 (4.310%) Software Architecture
15 2 (1.724%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 112 (96.55%) C#
2 60 (51.72%) SQL
3 34 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.621%) VB.NET
5 3 (2.586%) VB6
5 3 (2.586%) VB
6 1 (0.862%) X++
6 1 (0.862%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.862%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) Degree
2 6 (5.172%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.862%) MCSD
3 1 (0.862%) ISEB
3 1 (0.862%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) ISO 9001
1 14 (12.07%) TickIT
2 1 (0.862%) QA
Vendors
1 71 (61.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.10%) Telerik
2 21 (18.10%) DevExpress
3 1 (0.862%) Sitecore
3 1 (0.862%) Perforce
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