The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML 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 Application Development category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 40 16 12
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -4
Permanent jobs citing XML 7 38 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 2.047% 9.246% 13.97%
As % of the Application Development category 6.604% 37.25% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 27
Average salary £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.37% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,309
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.20%
All Application Development
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
106 102 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 30.99% 24.82% 29.78%
Number of salaries quoted 75 88 57
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% -2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £49,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Scotland

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Aberdeen XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Aberdeen XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing XML 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 XML.

1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) CSS
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 6 (46.15%) HTML
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
4 5 (38.46%) C#
5 4 (30.77%) Web Development
5 4 (30.77%) ASP
5 4 (30.77%) XSLT
6 3 (23.08%) Documentum
6 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (23.08%) Apache
6 3 (23.08%) MTS
6 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
6 3 (23.08%) Python
6 3 (23.08%) XHTML
6 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
6 3 (23.08%) MS Access
6 3 (23.08%) Web Services
6 3 (23.08%) Business Objects
6 3 (23.08%) IIS
6 3 (23.08%) Java
6 3 (23.08%) Perl
6 3 (23.08%) PHP
6 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing XML 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 XML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
1 7 (53.85%) CSS
2 6 (46.15%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 4 (30.77%) ASP
4 4 (30.77%) XSLT
5 3 (23.08%) XHTML
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
5 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 1 (7.692%) DHTML
7 1 (7.692%) jQuery
7 1 (7.692%) Ajax
7 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (23.08%) Documentum
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) MTS
2 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
2 3 (23.08%) IIS
2 3 (23.08%) Captiva
2 3 (23.08%) FileNet
2 3 (23.08%) LiveLink
2 3 (23.08%) Alfresco
2 3 (23.08%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 2 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) MS Access
3 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (15.38%) TOAD
4 1 (7.692%) GIS
General
1 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Documentum Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Documentum Specialist
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate
5 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Graduate Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
2 1 (7.692%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Web Development
2 3 (23.08%) Content Management
2 3 (23.08%) Change Management
2 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Content Management
2 3 (23.08%) Information Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Information Management
4 1 (7.692%) B2B
4 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Perl
4 3 (23.08%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) VB
6 1 (7.692%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Business Objects
3 3 (23.08%) Alterian
3 3 (23.08%) Kofax
3 3 (23.08%) ReadSoft
3 3 (23.08%) Open Text
4 2 (15.38%) EMC