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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 29 40 27
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -13
Permanent jobs citing XML 19 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 6.312% 1.205% 3.015%
As % of the Application Development category 18.81% 4.762% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 4
Average salary £80,000 £55,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.45% -8.33%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
101 84 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 33.55% 25.30% 23.62%
Number of salaries quoted 80 57 33
Average salary £77,500 £73,250 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.80% +22.08%
90% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £85,000 £78,600
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
London

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 38 (76.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (58.00%) Banking
3 25 (50.00%) C#
3 25 (50.00%) Finance
4 24 (48.00%) SQL
5 22 (44.00%) OO
6 21 (42.00%) Oracle
7 20 (40.00%) FTP
8 19 (38.00%) Windows
9 17 (34.00%) Linux
9 17 (34.00%) JavaScript
9 17 (34.00%) UNIX
9 17 (34.00%) Data Modelling
9 17 (34.00%) Investment Banking
10 16 (32.00%) Sybase
10 16 (32.00%) XSLT
10 16 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (30.00%) Java
12 14 (28.00%) C++
12 14 (28.00%) Degree
13 13 (26.00%) Back Office
13 13 (26.00%) Middleware
13 13 (26.00%) HTML
13 13 (26.00%) IIS
13 13 (26.00%) Apache
13 13 (26.00%) Solaris
14 12 (24.00%) Risk Management
14 12 (24.00%) Unit Testing
14 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
15 11 (22.00%) Data Validation

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 16 (32.00%) XSLT
2 13 (26.00%) Middleware
2 13 (26.00%) HTML
3 9 (18.00%) WebSphere
4 7 (14.00%) WCF
5 4 (8.000%) J2EE
6 3 (6.000%) Symfony
7 1 (2.000%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.000%) CSS
7 1 (2.000%) DOM
7 1 (2.000%) XSL
7 1 (2.000%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.000%) Spring
7 1 (2.000%) XHTML
7 1 (2.000%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 13 (26.00%) IIS
1 13 (26.00%) Apache
2 9 (18.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.000%) Documentum
3 1 (2.000%) TeamSite
3 1 (2.000%) CMS
3 1 (2.000%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (2.000%) Drupal
3 1 (2.000%) TPMS
3 1 (2.000%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.000%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 9 (18.00%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (40.00%) FTP
2 9 (18.00%) SAN
2 9 (18.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (76.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (14.00%) MySQL
4 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (14.00%) Informix
5 3 (6.000%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (2.000%) JUnit
General
1 29 (58.00%) Banking
2 25 (50.00%) Finance
3 17 (34.00%) Investment Banking
4 13 (26.00%) Back Office
5 3 (6.000%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (52.00%) Architect
2 14 (28.00%) Developer
3 11 (22.00%) SQL Server Architect
3 11 (22.00%) C# Architect
4 8 (16.00%) C# Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.000%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.000%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.000%) Applications Support
6 4 (8.000%) Service Desk Engineer
7 3 (6.000%) Senior Data Architect
7 3 (6.000%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.000%) Storage Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.000%) C++ Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Team Leader
8 2 (4.000%) Senior C++ Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Analyst
9 1 (2.000%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (16.00%) Derivative
3 1 (2.000%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.000%) Replication
3 1 (2.000%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.00%) Windows
2 17 (34.00%) UNIX
2 17 (34.00%) Linux
3 13 (26.00%) Solaris
4 4 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.000%) Android
4 4 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (8.000%) Windows 7
4 4 (8.000%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) OO
2 17 (34.00%) Data Modelling
3 12 (24.00%) Risk Management
3 12 (24.00%) Unit Testing
4 11 (22.00%) System Testing
4 11 (22.00%) Validation
4 11 (22.00%) Data Validation
5 9 (18.00%) Complex Event Processing
5 9 (18.00%) Benchmarking
5 9 (18.00%) Multithreading
6 8 (16.00%) Problem Management
7 7 (14.00%) Time Management
8 6 (12.00%) ETL
8 6 (12.00%) Data Architecture
9 5 (10.00%) Cash Management
9 5 (10.00%) Business Continuity
9 5 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
10 4 (8.000%) Incident Management
10 4 (8.000%) Change Management
10 4 (8.000%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) C#
2 24 (48.00%) SQL
3 17 (34.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (30.00%) Java
5 14 (28.00%) C++
6 7 (14.00%) VBA
7 3 (6.000%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.000%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.000%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (8.000%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.000%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Oracle
2 16 (32.00%) Sybase
3 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (20.00%) EMC
4 10 (20.00%) DataSynapse
5 9 (18.00%) NetApp
5 9 (18.00%) Cisco
5 9 (18.00%) 29West
6 4 (8.000%) SolarWinds
6 4 (8.000%) Red Hat
6 4 (8.000%) Bloomberg
7 3 (6.000%) Zend
8 1 (2.000%) Vignette
8 1 (2.000%) ATG