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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 21 20 9
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Visual Studio 12 21 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 16.00% 16.67% 16.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 70.59% 58.33% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 6
Average salary £33,500 £26,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.41% -33.75%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Development Applications
Wigan
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
17 36 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 22.67% 28.57% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 13
Average salary £33,500 £25,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.37% -27.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £23,150 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £41,500 £30,000
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 Wigan region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Wigan 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 Wigan region.

Wigan Visual Studio Salary Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 24 (100.00%) C#
1 24 (100.00%) SQL
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
1 24 (100.00%) MVC
2 23 (95.83%) jQuery
3 22 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (87.50%) LINQ
5 20 (83.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 20 (83.33%) Scrum
6 19 (79.17%) ASP.NET
7 18 (75.00%) SQL Server
7 18 (75.00%) JavaScript
8 15 (62.50%) Degree
8 15 (62.50%) Computer Science
9 14 (58.33%) IIS
10 13 (54.17%) T-SQL
10 13 (54.17%) HTML
10 13 (54.17%) CSS
11 12 (50.00%) Web Development
11 12 (50.00%) Unit Testing
11 12 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
11 12 (50.00%) Mobile App
12 11 (45.83%) SQL Server 2008
13 8 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
13 8 (33.33%) C
14 5 (20.83%) Time Management
14 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET MVC
15 4 (16.67%) LINQ to SQL
15 4 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
16 2 (8.333%) Web Application Development

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (95.83%) jQuery
3 21 (87.50%) LINQ
4 19 (79.17%) ASP.NET
5 13 (54.17%) HTML
5 13 (54.17%) CSS
6 8 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (16.67%) LINQ to SQL
9 1 (4.167%) .NET Framework
9 1 (4.167%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 14 (58.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (45.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 20 (83.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 12 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) Software Developer
3 6 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Web Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Graduate
5 3 (12.50%) .NET Web Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Web Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Web Developer
6 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) C# Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) Graduate Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) .NET Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) Trainee Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 12 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) MVC
2 22 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (83.33%) Scrum
4 12 (50.00%) Web Development
4 12 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Time Management
6 4 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (8.333%) Web Application Development
8 1 (4.167%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (54.17%) T-SQL
4 8 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Microsoft