The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 24 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 Norwich region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 38 47 28
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -19
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 12 5 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norwich 3.750% 1.208% 6.557%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.64% 13.89% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 10
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% +40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £29,750 £23,150
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £36,050 £29,650
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Norwich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
53 36 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norwich 16.56% 8.696% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 48 35 42
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £100,000 £42,950
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Norfolk

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Norwich region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Norwich Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norwich 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (88.24%) C#
3 14 (82.35%) OO
3 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
4 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
5 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
5 8 (47.06%) VB.NET
5 8 (47.06%) HTML
5 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
5 8 (47.06%) SQL
5 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
5 8 (47.06%) .NET Framework
5 8 (47.06%) jQuery
6 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
6 7 (41.18%) QA
6 7 (41.18%) TDD
6 7 (41.18%) Web Services
6 7 (41.18%) OOP
6 7 (41.18%) BDD
7 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (35.29%) CSS
7 6 (35.29%) T-SQL
7 6 (35.29%) VB
7 6 (35.29%) Selenium
7 6 (35.29%) N-Tier
7 6 (35.29%) Web Development
8 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
8 5 (29.41%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
9 3 (17.65%) Windows

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norwich 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
2 8 (47.06%) HTML
2 8 (47.06%) .NET Framework
2 8 (47.06%) jQuery
3 7 (41.18%) Web Services
4 6 (35.29%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) WPF
5 2 (11.76%) Silverlight
6 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (5.882%) REST
6 1 (5.882%) SOAP
6 1 (5.882%) XML
6 1 (5.882%) XSD
6 1 (5.882%) XSLT
6 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.882%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (5.882%) MSMQ
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 1 (5.882%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (5.882%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Selenium
2 5 (29.41%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.882%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.882%) WatiN
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) VB.NET Programmer
1 6 (35.29%) Programmer
1 6 (35.29%) .NET Programmer
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Test Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Automated Test Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Junior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Junior Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Junior
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.882%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.882%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.882%) IaaS
2 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) SaaS
2 1 (5.882%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) OO
2 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
2 7 (41.18%) TDD
2 7 (41.18%) OOP
2 7 (41.18%) BDD
3 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (35.29%) Web Development
4 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 1 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.882%) User Stories
5 1 (5.882%) Regression Testing
5 1 (5.882%) MVC
5 1 (5.882%) Scrum
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (5.882%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.882%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.882%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) VB.NET
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) T-SQL
3 6 (35.29%) VB
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.882%) C
5 1 (5.882%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
Norwich, East Anglia
The chosen candidate will be organised and punctual and present themselves professionally to external clients.You will have a good understanding of programming with ASP.Net C# and...
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
As a QA Automation Engineer you will: You will have a solid understanding of the Microsoft stack, object oriented development, and web application technologies... Mandatory Skills: Strong experience...
Pentasia Ltd
Salary: Unspecified (Depending on Experience)
Posted: 20 May 2013