The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio skills in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Visual Studio over the 3 months to 20 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 43 21 50
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +29
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 1 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 0.407% 4.000% 0.382%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.667% 25.00% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 1
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +20.96%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15 20 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 6.098% 16.00% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 36
Average salary £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.12% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £39,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Visual Studio
Hertfordshire

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 5 (71.43%) MCAD
2 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) ISEB

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
1 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
1 5 (71.43%) C# Developer
1 5 (71.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 5 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) MCAD
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) HP
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