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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 39 48 36
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -12
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 71 43 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 5.508% 4.057% 5.820%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.02% 21.29% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 71 40 53
Average salary £42,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.86% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £24,950 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,750 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
215 202 194
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 16.68% 19.06% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 198 174 178
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Buckinghamshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

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

Milton Keynes Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 118 (94.40%) .NET
2 115 (92.00%) C#
3 114 (91.20%) SQL Server
4 77 (61.60%) Microsoft
5 60 (48.00%) Windows
6 55 (44.00%) .NET Framework
7 49 (39.20%) SQL Server 2008
8 46 (36.80%) SQL
9 44 (35.20%) WPF
10 42 (33.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (32.80%) JavaScript
11 41 (32.80%) Windows Server 2003
11 41 (32.80%) WCF
11 41 (32.80%) Windows Server 2008
12 39 (31.20%) WinForms
13 38 (30.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 37 (29.60%) ASP.NET
15 35 (28.00%) ITIL
16 32 (25.60%) Team Foundation Server
17 30 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
18 28 (22.40%) TDD
18 28 (22.40%) MCP
18 28 (22.40%) MCAD
18 28 (22.40%) MCSD
18 28 (22.40%) Microsoft Certification
19 27 (21.60%) Degree
20 26 (20.80%) NUnit
21 24 (19.20%) LINQ
22 22 (17.60%) IIS
23 21 (16.80%) Scrum

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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
1 118 (94.40%) .NET
2 55 (44.00%) .NET Framework
3 44 (35.20%) WPF
4 41 (32.80%) WCF
5 39 (31.20%) WinForms
6 37 (29.60%) ASP.NET
7 24 (19.20%) LINQ
8 19 (15.20%) jQuery
9 17 (13.60%) Web Services
10 16 (12.80%) HTML
11 15 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 14 (11.20%) XML
12 14 (11.20%) CSS
13 13 (10.40%) ADO.NET
13 13 (10.40%) SAML
14 9 (7.200%) ASP.NET MVC 2
15 7 (5.600%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 3 (2.400%) Ajax
17 2 (1.600%) WebSphere
18 1 (0.800%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 22 (17.60%) IIS
2 20 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 19 (15.20%) SharePoint 2010
4 10 (8.000%) Apache
4 10 (8.000%) Tomcat
5 9 (7.200%) CMS
6 2 (1.600%) ESB
6 2 (1.600%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 17 (13.60%) MS Excel
2 7 (5.600%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.600%) WLAN
1 2 (1.600%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.600%) VPN
1 2 (1.600%) DNS
1 2 (1.600%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (91.20%) SQL Server
2 49 (39.20%) SQL Server 2008
3 42 (33.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (30.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (14.40%) Informix
5 18 (14.40%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.600%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.800%) SQLite
7 1 (0.800%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.800%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.800%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (25.60%) Team Foundation Server
2 26 (20.80%) NUnit
3 2 (1.600%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.800%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.800%) Selenium
General
1 9 (7.200%) Marketing
2 2 (1.600%) French Language
2 2 (1.600%) German Language
2 2 (1.600%) Italian Language
2 2 (1.600%) Spanish Language
2 2 (1.600%) Finance
3 1 (0.800%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 73 (58.40%) Developer
2 42 (33.60%) C# Developer
3 40 (32.00%) .NET Developer
3 40 (32.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 29 (23.20%) Analyst
5 25 (20.00%) Applications Support
6 21 (16.80%) Support Analyst
6 21 (16.80%) Applications Support Analyst
7 17 (13.60%) SQL Developer
8 15 (12.00%) SQL DBA
8 15 (12.00%) DBA
9 13 (10.40%) Software Developer
10 12 (9.600%) Software Engineer
10 12 (9.600%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (9.600%) Senior Support Analyst
10 12 (9.600%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 11 (8.800%) C# Software Developer
12 10 (8.000%) Senior Developer
13 9 (7.200%) SQL Server DBA
13 9 (7.200%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.40%) Mobile App
3 9 (7.200%) Social Media
3 9 (7.200%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.200%) Replication
4 4 (3.200%) Visualisation
5 3 (2.400%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.600%) SaaS
6 2 (1.600%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.600%) iPhone
7 1 (0.800%) NHS
7 1 (0.800%) Contract for Difference
7 1 (0.800%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 60 (48.00%) Windows
2 41 (32.80%) Windows Server 2003
2 41 (32.80%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.600%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (1.600%) Android
4 1 (0.800%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) ITIL
2 30 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (22.40%) TDD
4 21 (16.80%) Scrum
5 19 (15.20%) MVC
6 13 (10.40%) MVVM
7 10 (8.000%) Configuration Management
7 10 (8.000%) CRM
8 9 (7.200%) Content Management
8 9 (7.200%) Mobile Application Development
9 8 (6.400%) OO
10 7 (5.600%) OOP
10 7 (5.600%) Change Management
10 7 (5.600%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (4.800%) Web Development
11 6 (4.800%) Automated Testing
12 5 (4.000%) Project Management
12 5 (4.000%) Test Scripting
13 4 (3.200%) Problem Management
13 4 (3.200%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 115 (92.00%) C#
2 46 (36.80%) SQL
3 41 (32.80%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.20%) T-SQL
4 19 (15.20%) VB.NET
5 4 (3.200%) Java
6 1 (0.800%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (22.40%) MCP
1 28 (22.40%) MCAD
1 28 (22.40%) MCSD
1 28 (22.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (21.60%) Degree
3 7 (5.600%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.000%) ISEB
5 2 (1.600%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.600%) MCTS
5 2 (1.600%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.200%) QA
2 1 (0.800%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.600%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.600%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 77 (61.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.000%) Sage
3 2 (1.600%) VMware
3 2 (1.600%) Apple
3 2 (1.600%) Oracle
3 2 (1.600%) JBoss
3 2 (1.600%) Symbian
4 1 (0.800%) Twitter
4 1 (0.800%) Infragistics
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Working closely with technology gurus and with a web development and infrastructure team the Application Support Engineer will work within an ITIL environment, supporting Windows 2003 - 2008 R2...
Interact Consulting
Salary: 25-30k
Posted: 17 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Working closely with technology gurus and with a web development and infrastructure team the Application Support Engineer will work within an ITIL environment, supporting Windows 2003 - 2008 R2...
Interact Consulting
Salary: 25-30k
Posted: 14 May 2013