The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reigate region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 21 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 Reigate region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 19 21 9
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 38 49 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reigate 9.572% 12.60% 18.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.78% 53.85% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 37 49 36
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Reigate
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
98 91 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reigate 24.69% 23.39% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 95 89 58
Average salary £44,500 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £40,800 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Surrey

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Reigate region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reigate Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reigate 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 80 (97.56%) .NET
2 67 (81.71%) ASP.NET
3 63 (76.83%) Scrum
4 55 (67.07%) SQL
5 53 (64.63%) VB.NET
6 50 (60.98%) XML
6 50 (60.98%) XSLT
7 49 (59.76%) C#
8 48 (58.54%) Microsoft
9 47 (57.32%) Windows
10 42 (51.22%) MVC
11 39 (47.56%) Workflow
11 39 (47.56%) WF
12 38 (46.34%) TDD
13 35 (42.68%) CRM
13 35 (42.68%) Dynamics CRM
14 33 (40.24%) Finance
15 32 (39.02%) WCF
16 30 (36.59%) SharePoint
17 26 (31.71%) .NET Framework
18 23 (28.05%) Team Foundation Server
19 21 (25.61%) MS Office
20 20 (24.39%) Degree
21 19 (23.17%) C++
22 17 (20.73%) OO
22 17 (20.73%) ASP.NET MVC
22 17 (20.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
23 12 (14.63%) SQL Server
23 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
24 11 (13.41%) Selenium

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reigate 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 80 (97.56%) .NET
2 67 (81.71%) ASP.NET
3 50 (60.98%) XML
3 50 (60.98%) XSLT
4 39 (47.56%) WF
5 32 (39.02%) WCF
6 26 (31.71%) .NET Framework
7 17 (20.73%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (20.73%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 9 (10.98%) WinForms
9 7 (8.537%) ADO.NET
9 7 (8.537%) SOAP
10 3 (3.659%) WPF
11 2 (2.439%) CSS
11 2 (2.439%) HTML
11 2 (2.439%) jQuery
12 1 (1.220%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 30 (36.59%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.98%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (25.61%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 35 (42.68%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.537%) Firewall
1 7 (8.537%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.439%) Internet
3 1 (1.220%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.537%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.439%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (13.41%) Selenium
2 11 (13.41%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (2.439%) MSTest
3 2 (2.439%) MSBuild
3 2 (2.439%) FinalBuilder
4 1 (1.220%) GCC
4 1 (1.220%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.220%) Eclipse
General
1 33 (40.24%) Finance
2 10 (12.20%) Manufacturing
2 10 (12.20%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.659%) Legal
4 1 (1.220%) German Language
4 1 (1.220%) Automotive
4 1 (1.220%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 59 (71.95%) Developer
2 32 (39.02%) .NET Developer
3 23 (28.05%) VB.NET Developer
4 14 (17.07%) Software Developer
5 11 (13.41%) Test Engineer
6 9 (10.98%) C# Developer
7 8 (9.756%) Software Engineer
7 8 (9.756%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.317%) Tester
8 6 (7.317%) ASP.NET Developer
8 6 (7.317%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (6.098%) Senior C# Developer
9 5 (6.098%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (6.098%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (6.098%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (4.878%) Lead Tester
10 4 (4.878%) Automation Tester
11 3 (3.659%) C# Software Developer
12 2 (2.439%) Senior Web Developer
12 2 (2.439%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) SaaS
2 5 (6.098%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.220%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.220%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 47 (57.32%) Windows
2 7 (8.537%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (76.83%) Scrum
2 42 (51.22%) MVC
3 39 (47.56%) Workflow
4 38 (46.34%) TDD
5 35 (42.68%) CRM
6 17 (20.73%) OO
7 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
8 11 (13.41%) Waterfall
9 10 (12.20%) Regression Testing
9 10 (12.20%) ERP
9 10 (12.20%) Domain-Driven Design
10 8 (9.756%) Software Engineering
11 7 (8.537%) Requirements Analysis
11 7 (8.537%) OOD
12 4 (4.878%) Test Scripting
13 3 (3.659%) MVVM
13 3 (3.659%) Continuous Improvement
13 3 (3.659%) Refactoring
13 3 (3.659%) Agile Software Development
14 2 (2.439%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 55 (67.07%) SQL
2 53 (64.63%) VB.NET
3 49 (59.76%) C#
4 19 (23.17%) C++
5 11 (13.41%) VBA
6 10 (12.20%) Java
6 10 (12.20%) Ruby
7 7 (8.537%) Perl
7 7 (8.537%) Python
7 7 (8.537%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (24.39%) Degree
2 11 (13.41%) ISEB
3 5 (6.098%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.537%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.439%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.439%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 48 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) HP
3 2 (2.439%) VMware