The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 23 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 40 22 34
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +12
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 25 40 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 3.994% 8.715% 5.030%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.55% 30.77% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 25 37 24
Average salary £45,000 £27,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+63.63% -15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £25,000 £28,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £33,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
116 130 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 18.53% 28.32% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 103 126 79
Average salary £42,500 £33,950 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.18% -9.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,050 £25,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £37,500 £42,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Somerset Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bath -9 18 £45,000 +80.00%
Taunton -3 4 £33,750 +20.53%
Wells -3 1 £40,000 +19.40%
Visual Studio
South West

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 44 (73.33%) C#
2 40 (66.67%) .NET
3 28 (46.67%) XML
3 28 (46.67%) Windows
4 27 (45.00%) Microsoft
5 26 (43.33%) VB.NET
5 26 (43.33%) C++
6 22 (36.67%) Degree
7 20 (33.33%) SQL
7 20 (33.33%) ASP.NET
8 19 (31.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 18 (30.00%) HTML
9 18 (30.00%) SQL Server
10 17 (28.33%) Service Delivery
10 17 (28.33%) Computer Science
11 16 (26.67%) MS Excel
12 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
12 14 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (23.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 14 (23.33%) Business Analysis
13 13 (21.67%) Release Management
14 12 (20.00%) SharePoint
14 12 (20.00%) Web Services
15 11 (18.33%) UML
15 11 (18.33%) .NET Framework
16 10 (16.67%) SOAP
16 10 (16.67%) Finance
17 9 (15.00%) OO
17 9 (15.00%) IIS
17 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 40 (66.67%) .NET
2 28 (46.67%) XML
3 20 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 18 (30.00%) HTML
5 12 (20.00%) Web Services
6 11 (18.33%) .NET Framework
7 10 (16.67%) SOAP
8 8 (13.33%) MFC
8 8 (13.33%) XML Schema
9 7 (11.67%) CSS
9 7 (11.67%) WCF
10 5 (8.333%) STL
11 4 (6.667%) ASP
12 3 (5.000%) WinForms
12 3 (5.000%) Qt
13 2 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 2 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
13 2 (3.333%) WSDL
13 2 (3.333%) XSLT
14 1 (1.667%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (15.00%) IIS
3 6 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (5.000%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 16 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.333%) DNS
2 1 (1.667%) Intranet
2 1 (1.667%) Internet
2 1 (1.667%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.667%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (13.33%) Hudson
2 8 (13.33%) Ant
3 5 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (8.333%) NUnit
3 5 (8.333%) Subversion
3 5 (8.333%) ReSharper
3 5 (8.333%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.000%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 10 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (5.000%) Aerospace
2 3 (5.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (66.67%) Developer
2 20 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 13 (21.67%) Release Manager
3 13 (21.67%) Configuration Manager
4 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst
6 5 (8.333%) Graduate
6 5 (8.333%) C++ Developer
6 5 (8.333%) SharePoint Developer
6 5 (8.333%) C++ Software Developer
6 5 (8.333%) Graduate Developer
6 5 (8.333%) C++/C# Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Junior Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Junior
8 3 (5.000%) DBA
8 3 (5.000%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.000%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.333%) Animation
4 1 (1.667%) Social Media
4 1 (1.667%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 28 (46.67%) Windows
2 19 (31.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Service Delivery
2 14 (23.33%) Business Analysis
3 13 (21.67%) Release Management
4 11 (18.33%) UML
5 9 (15.00%) OO
5 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
5 9 (15.00%) Waterfall
6 8 (13.33%) TDD
6 8 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (10.00%) Migration
8 5 (8.333%) ITIL
8 5 (8.333%) Software Engineering
8 5 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.000%) SOA
9 3 (5.000%) Project Management
9 3 (5.000%) Regression Testing
9 3 (5.000%) OOP
9 3 (5.000%) Data Management
9 3 (5.000%) User Experience Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (73.33%) C#
2 26 (43.33%) VB.NET
2 26 (43.33%) C++
3 20 (33.33%) SQL
4 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.333%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.000%) Tcl
6 3 (5.000%) PHP
7 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.667%) Java
7 1 (1.667%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.333%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.000%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (5.000%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 27 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Trapeze
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 5 (8.333%) Macromedia
3 5 (8.333%) Red Gate
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