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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 47 17 25
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +8
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 2 18 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 0.820% 11.32% 5.155%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.452% 62.07% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 10
Average salary £34,500 £30,000 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.00% +4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £43,000 £33,550
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
31 29 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 12.70% 18.24% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 31 17 19
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -16.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,500 £42,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
West Midlands

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

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

Solihull Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) C#
2 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 6 (50.00%) MVC
3 6 (50.00%) ASP
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
3 6 (50.00%) Oracle
3 6 (50.00%) VB
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) OOD
5 2 (16.67%) NEC
5 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (16.67%) Windows
5 2 (16.67%) OO
5 2 (16.67%) IIS
5 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (16.67%) Content Management
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (8.333%) Degree
6 1 (8.333%) Mathematics
6 1 (8.333%) WCF
6 1 (8.333%) WPF
6 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.333%) Facebook
6 1 (8.333%) Twitter
6 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (8.333%) CSS

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 6 (50.00%) ASP
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (8.333%) WCF
5 1 (8.333%) WPF
5 1 (8.333%) CSS
5 1 (8.333%) HTML
5 1 (8.333%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Server Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Web Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Junior VB.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Junior .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Junior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Junior
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Mathematics
1 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (16.67%) OOD
2 2 (16.67%) OO
2 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (16.67%) Content Management
2 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.333%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) VB
3 1 (8.333%) VC++
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
3 1 (8.333%) C++
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) NEC
4 1 (8.333%) Facebook
4 1 (8.333%) Twitter