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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 17 17 11
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Permanent jobs citing XML 20 21 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 16.67% 15.33% 18.97%
As % of the Application Development category 24.10% 39.62% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20 21 11
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Application Development
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
83 53 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 69.17% 38.69% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 77 53 27
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Manchester

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton 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 Bolton region.

Bolton XML Salary Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 21 (87.50%) C#
1 21 (87.50%) SQL
2 18 (75.00%) HTML
2 18 (75.00%) CSS
3 17 (70.83%) .NET
3 17 (70.83%) ASP.NET
3 17 (70.83%) Back Office
3 17 (70.83%) CMS
3 17 (70.83%) JSON
3 17 (70.83%) jQuery
4 15 (62.50%) Degree
4 15 (62.50%) XSL
5 7 (29.17%) Web Services
6 5 (20.83%) PHP
7 4 (16.67%) C
7 4 (16.67%) Java
7 4 (16.67%) C++
7 4 (16.67%) SOAP
7 4 (16.67%) RAD
7 4 (16.67%) Python
7 4 (16.67%) HTTP
7 4 (16.67%) Ruby
7 4 (16.67%) QA
7 4 (16.67%) WATIR
7 4 (16.67%) Selenium
7 4 (16.67%) FitNesse
7 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 4 (16.67%) soapUI
7 4 (16.67%) REST

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 18 (75.00%) HTML
1 18 (75.00%) CSS
2 17 (70.83%) .NET
2 17 (70.83%) ASP.NET
2 17 (70.83%) JSON
2 17 (70.83%) jQuery
3 15 (62.50%) XSL
4 7 (29.17%) Web Services
5 4 (16.67%) soapUI
5 4 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (16.67%) SOAP
6 2 (8.333%) WCF
6 2 (8.333%) CSS3
6 2 (8.333%) HTML5
7 1 (4.167%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 17 (70.83%) CMS
2 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (4.167%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.167%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (4.167%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.167%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) MySQL
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) WATIR
1 4 (16.67%) Selenium
1 4 (16.67%) FitNesse
General
1 17 (70.83%) Back Office
2 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) Web Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Test Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.333%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) C# Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior .NET Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Business Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.167%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.167%) Windows
1 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) RAD
1 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
1 4 (16.67%) System Testing
1 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
2 2 (8.333%) Web Development
3 1 (4.167%) OOP
3 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (4.167%) MVC
3 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
3 1 (4.167%) Supplier Management
3 1 (4.167%) Web Analytics
3 1 (4.167%) Change Control
3 1 (4.167%) Business Analytics
3 1 (4.167%) Analytics
3 1 (4.167%) Time Management
3 1 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) C#
1 21 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) PHP
3 4 (16.67%) C
3 4 (16.67%) C++
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Ruby
4 1 (4.167%) PHP5
4 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) NFS
1 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.167%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.167%) XenApp
1 1 (4.167%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.167%) Citrix
2 1 (4.167%) VMware
2 1 (4.167%) Google
2 1 (4.167%) Zend
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