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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 49 44 65
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 194 187 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 4.763% 5.135% 2.979%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.17% 35.15% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 183 184 117
Average salary £35,000 £33,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £42,900
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
665 532 518
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 16.33% 14.61% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 598 475 483
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £42,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
North West

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wigan 0 13 £33,500 +26.41%
Cheadle +2 10 £50,000 +25.00%
Altrincham -7 7 £37,750 +7.85%
Bolton -14 7 £41,500 +23.88%
Stockport -13 3 £40,000 +25.00%
Oldham - 1 £25,000 -
Salford - 1 £30,000 -
Visual Studio
North West

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 304 (93.25%) .NET
2 279 (85.58%) C#
3 239 (73.31%) ASP.NET
4 203 (62.27%) SQL Server
5 172 (52.76%) SQL
6 163 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 139 (42.64%) CSS
8 137 (42.02%) HTML
9 113 (34.66%) jQuery
10 112 (34.36%) MVC
11 97 (29.75%) Microsoft
12 88 (26.99%) Windows
13 87 (26.69%) .NET Framework
14 83 (25.46%) SQL Server 2008
15 78 (23.93%) XML
16 73 (22.39%) VB.NET
17 67 (20.55%) T-SQL
18 66 (20.25%) Degree
19 64 (19.63%) SharePoint
20 63 (19.33%) Web Services
21 59 (18.10%) OO
22 57 (17.48%) IIS
23 53 (16.26%) Ajax
24 48 (14.72%) LINQ
24 48 (14.72%) Finance
25 47 (14.42%) ASP.NET MVC
26 46 (14.11%) Agile Software Development
27 42 (12.88%) CMS
28 41 (12.58%) Scrum
28 41 (12.58%) MS Excel

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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
1 304 (93.25%) .NET
2 239 (73.31%) ASP.NET
3 139 (42.64%) CSS
4 137 (42.02%) HTML
5 113 (34.66%) jQuery
6 87 (26.69%) .NET Framework
7 78 (23.93%) XML
8 63 (19.33%) Web Services
9 53 (16.26%) Ajax
10 48 (14.72%) LINQ
11 47 (14.42%) ASP.NET MVC
12 39 (11.96%) WCF
12 39 (11.96%) WPF
13 35 (10.74%) XHTML
14 24 (7.362%) ASP
15 23 (7.055%) Silverlight
16 21 (6.442%) JSON
17 20 (6.135%) WF
18 19 (5.828%) WinForms
19 18 (5.521%) ATL
Application Platforms
1 64 (19.63%) SharePoint
2 57 (17.48%) IIS
3 42 (12.88%) CMS
4 33 (10.12%) SharePoint 2010
5 21 (6.442%) BizTalk Server
6 18 (5.521%) SharePoint Server
7 11 (3.374%) SharePoint Foundation
8 3 (0.920%) Windows Azure
8 3 (0.920%) EPiServer CMS
8 3 (0.920%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.920%) Orchard CMS
8 3 (0.920%) WordPress
8 3 (0.920%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (0.920%) MSMQ
9 2 (0.613%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.613%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.307%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 41 (12.58%) MS Excel
2 15 (4.601%) Photoshop
3 12 (3.681%) MS Office
4 11 (3.374%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.307%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.307%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 11 (3.374%) Google Analytics
2 10 (3.067%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (2.454%) Dynamics AX
3 8 (2.454%) Bond Adapt
4 4 (1.227%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.761%) Internet
2 8 (2.454%) Intranet
3 4 (1.227%) DNS
4 3 (0.920%) HTTP
5 2 (0.613%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (62.27%) SQL Server
2 83 (25.46%) SQL Server 2008
3 40 (12.27%) SQL Server 2005
4 31 (9.509%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (7.055%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (3.374%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (3.067%) SQL Server 2012
8 8 (2.454%) OLAP
8 8 (2.454%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.534%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.920%) RavenDB
10 3 (0.920%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.920%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
10 3 (0.920%) SQL Server 2000
11 2 (0.613%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.613%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (0.307%) QlikView
12 1 (0.307%) MySQL
12 1 (0.307%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 35 (10.74%) Team Foundation Server
2 21 (6.442%) NUnit
3 19 (5.828%) Dreamweaver
4 14 (4.294%) Subversion
5 12 (3.681%) CruiseControl
5 12 (3.681%) Visual Studio Team System
5 12 (3.681%) MSBuild
5 12 (3.681%) Rhino Mocks
6 8 (2.454%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 5 (1.534%) Git (software)
8 3 (0.920%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.920%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.920%) Hudson
9 2 (0.613%) MSTest
9 2 (0.613%) Moq
10 1 (0.307%) WiX
10 1 (0.307%) JIRA
General
1 48 (14.72%) Finance
2 27 (8.282%) Marketing
3 22 (6.748%) Law
4 11 (3.374%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.454%) Games
6 7 (2.147%) Retail
7 5 (1.534%) Advertising
8 4 (1.227%) Legal
9 3 (0.920%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.613%) Back Office
10 2 (0.613%) Local Government
11 1 (0.307%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 282 (86.50%) Developer
2 95 (29.14%) .NET Developer
3 71 (21.78%) Web Developer
4 48 (14.72%) Software Developer
5 47 (14.42%) C# Developer
6 37 (11.35%) C# .NET Developer
7 33 (10.12%) Senior Developer
8 32 (9.816%) ASP.NET Developer
9 27 (8.282%) SharePoint Developer
10 26 (7.975%) Applications Developer
11 23 (7.055%) Junior
11 23 (7.055%) Junior Developer
12 22 (6.748%) Software Engineer
13 18 (5.521%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 17 (5.215%) C++ Developer
14 17 (5.215%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.908%) Web Applications Developer
15 16 (4.908%) .NET Web Developer
16 15 (4.601%) SQL Developer
17 12 (3.681%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.04%) Mobile App
2 26 (7.975%) Computer Science
3 20 (6.135%) N-Tier
4 18 (5.521%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.601%) iPhone
6 8 (2.454%) iPad
7 6 (1.840%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.840%) Social Media
7 6 (1.840%) Open Source
8 5 (1.534%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.227%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.920%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.920%) 3D Graphics
11 1 (0.307%) Arduino
11 1 (0.307%) SaaS
11 1 (0.307%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.307%) Replication
11 1 (0.307%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 88 (26.99%) Windows
2 12 (3.681%) Android
3 8 (2.454%) UNIX
3 8 (2.454%) Linux
4 7 (2.147%) Windows Mobile
4 7 (2.147%) Mac OS X
5 6 (1.840%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.613%) Windows 8
6 2 (0.613%) Windows Phone 8
6 2 (0.613%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.307%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.307%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (34.36%) MVC
2 59 (18.10%) OO
3 46 (14.11%) Agile Software Development
4 41 (12.58%) Scrum
5 28 (8.589%) SEO
6 27 (8.282%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (7.362%) UML
8 22 (6.748%) Web Development
9 18 (5.521%) Web Design
9 18 (5.521%) OOD
9 18 (5.521%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (5.215%) Problem Management
10 17 (5.215%) CRM
10 17 (5.215%) Project Management
11 16 (4.908%) Time Management
11 16 (4.908%) Analytics
12 15 (4.601%) Mobile Application Development
12 15 (4.601%) OOA/OOD
13 14 (4.294%) Unit Testing
13 14 (4.294%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 279 (85.58%) C#
2 172 (52.76%) SQL
3 163 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 73 (22.39%) VB.NET
5 67 (20.55%) T-SQL
6 27 (8.282%) C++
7 20 (6.135%) C
8 17 (5.215%) VB
9 14 (4.294%) PHP
10 11 (3.374%) Java
11 6 (1.840%) XAML
11 6 (1.840%) VBA
11 6 (1.840%) VBScript
11 6 (1.840%) X++
12 5 (1.534%) VB6
13 4 (1.227%) VC++
13 4 (1.227%) XPath
14 3 (0.920%) Lua
14 3 (0.920%) Python
15 1 (0.307%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (20.25%) Degree
2 23 (7.055%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.601%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.601%) DV Cleared
3 15 (4.601%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.227%) MCAD
5 3 (0.920%) MCPD
5 3 (0.920%) MCTS
5 3 (0.920%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.227%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.307%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 97 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.748%) Google
3 8 (2.454%) Oracle
4 3 (0.920%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.920%) Business Objects
5 2 (0.613%) Fujitsu
5 2 (0.613%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.307%) Twitter
6 1 (0.307%) SolidWorks
6 1 (0.307%) Adobe
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