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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank - 16 13
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 0 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rochdale - 4.286% 8.108%
As % of the Development Applications category - 42.86% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 3
Average salary - £33,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +17.85%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Rochdale
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
0 7 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rochdale - 10.00% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 6
Average salary - £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
Manchester

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rochdale 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 Rochdale region.

Rochdale Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rochdale 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) OOD
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) LINQ
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (100.00%) Ninject
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rochdale 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) LINQ
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Ninject
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) OOD
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL