The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 17 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 76 74 56
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -18
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 7 14 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.838% 1.497% 2.284%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.882% 14.74% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 14
Average salary £31,500 £32,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.07% +16.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,200 £23,600
10% offered a salary of more than £41,700 £42,750 £34,466
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
119 95 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 14.25% 10.16% 9.788%
Number of salaries quoted 104 91 56
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £38,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Hampshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Visual Studio across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Southampton Visual Studio Salary Histogram

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (85.19%) C#
3 22 (81.48%) SQL Server
3 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET
4 20 (74.07%) CSS
5 17 (62.96%) MVC
6 15 (55.56%) HTML
7 14 (51.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (51.85%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
9 11 (40.74%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 10 (37.04%) SQL
11 8 (29.63%) jQuery
12 7 (25.93%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (22.22%) HTML5
14 5 (18.52%) Ajax
14 5 (18.52%) VB.NET
14 5 (18.52%) SOAP
14 5 (18.52%) XML
15 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
15 4 (14.81%) VB
15 4 (14.81%) Scrum
15 4 (14.81%) Degree
16 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
16 3 (11.11%) Physics
16 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
16 3 (11.11%) MVVM
16 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
16 3 (11.11%) CSS3
16 3 (11.11%) PhoneGap

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET
3 20 (74.07%) CSS
4 15 (55.56%) HTML
5 14 (51.85%) ASP.NET MVC
5 14 (51.85%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 11 (40.74%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 8 (29.63%) jQuery
8 6 (22.22%) HTML5
9 5 (18.52%) Ajax
9 5 (18.52%) SOAP
9 5 (18.52%) XML
10 3 (11.11%) CSS3
11 1 (3.704%) REST
11 1 (3.704%) .NET Framework
11 1 (3.704%) WCF
11 1 (3.704%) RESTful
11 1 (3.704%) WinForms
11 1 (3.704%) Web Services
11 1 (3.704%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) IIS
1 1 (3.704%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.704%) CMS
1 1 (3.704%) Umbraco
1 1 (3.704%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Agresso
1 1 (3.704%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (81.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.407%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.704%) MySQL
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.704%) OLAP
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.704%) OLTP
4 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) PhoneGap
2 1 (3.704%) Subversion
2 1 (3.704%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (3.704%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (96.30%) Developer
2 15 (55.56%) Software Developer
3 9 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Senior Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Web Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Senior Software Developer
5 6 (22.22%) C# Web Developer
6 4 (14.81%) .NET Web Developer
6 4 (14.81%) .NET Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Junior Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Junior C# Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Junior Software Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Junior
7 3 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
7 3 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (7.407%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (7.407%) Programmer
8 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (3.704%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
1 3 (11.11%) Physics
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.407%) Replication
3 1 (3.704%) Statistics
3 1 (3.704%) Life Science
3 1 (3.704%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) MVC
2 7 (25.93%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (14.81%) Scrum
4 3 (11.11%) SEO
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) MVVM
5 2 (7.407%) Web Development
5 2 (7.407%) ITIL
6 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.704%) OOP
6 1 (3.704%) OO
6 1 (3.704%) Change Management
6 1 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.704%) Web Design
6 1 (3.704%) Load Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.704%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.704%) High Availability
6 1 (3.704%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) C#
2 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 10 (37.04%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) VB.NET
5 4 (14.81%) VB
6 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.704%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.704%) XPath
7 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.704%) NorthgateArinso
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle
Southampton, Hampshire
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Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 - £44000 per annum + bens (36 days holiday and more)
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