Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Cheshire region.

 Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank221221
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10Up+9
Matching permanent IT job ads94172255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire6.447 %12.04 %7.861 %
As % of the Application Development category18.69 %25.60 %22.77 %
Salaries quoted85156243
Average salary£33,000£31,500£34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.760 %-7.350 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,100£24,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£43,100£46,000£46,300
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£33,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.490 %-4.280 %
Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
5036721120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire34.50 %47.06 %34.53 %
Salaries quoted4576241028
Average salary£32,500£30,000£33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-9.090 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,400£22,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£47,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
XML North WestXML
North West

XML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cheshire XML Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cheshire XML Salary Histogram

XML
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ChesterDown-239£33,000-12.00 %
WarringtonDown-68£25,500-10.52 %
WilmslowDown-23£27,500-4.34 %
KnutsfordUp+162£26,500+6.00 %
NorthwichDown-62£36,500+40.38 %
CreweDown-102£17,750-40.83 %
XML North WestXML
North West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1139 (63.18 %)SQL Server
2131 (59.55 %).NET
3110 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
4104 (47.27 %)C#
4104 (47.27 %)HTML
5102 (46.36 %)Web Services
698 (44.55 %)JavaScript
698 (44.55 %)SQL
772 (32.73 %)AJAX
863 (28.64 %)CSS
962 (28.18 %)T-SQL
1054 (24.55 %)Java
1152 (23.64 %)XSLT
1238 (17.27 %)Finance
1238 (17.27 %)Spring
1238 (17.27 %)OOA/OOD
1336 (16.36 %)PHP
1433 (15.00 %)DHTML
1532 (14.55 %)XHTML
1631 (14.09 %)Ant
1729 (13.18 %)Oracle
1729 (13.18 %)ASP
1729 (13.18 %)E-Commerce
1729 (13.18 %)SQL Server 2005
1828 (12.73 %)WCF
1828 (12.73 %)JUnit
1927 (12.27 %)VB.NET
1927 (12.27 %)Web Development
1927 (12.27 %)Retail
2025 (11.36 %)Visual Studio

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1131 (59.55 %).NET
2110 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
3104 (47.27 %)HTML
4102 (46.36 %)Web Services
572 (32.73 %)AJAX
663 (28.64 %)CSS
752 (23.64 %)XSLT
838 (17.27 %)Spring
933 (15.00 %)DHTML
1032 (14.55 %)XHTML
1129 (13.18 %)ASP
1228 (12.73 %)WCF
1324 (10.91 %)LINQ
1324 (10.91 %)J2EE
1415 (6.818 %)Struts
1514 (6.364 %)JSP
1611 (5.000 %)WinForms
1710 (4.545 %)LAMP
188 (3.636 %)JMX
188 (3.636 %).NET Framework
Cheshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
115 (6.818 %)MQSeries
210 (4.545 %)SharePoint
210 (4.545 %)SharePoint Server 2007
39 (4.091 %)IIS
48 (3.636 %)Drupal
57 (3.182 %)Apache
57 (3.182 %)BizTalk Server
65 (2.273 %)CMS
74 (1.818 %)WebLogic
74 (1.818 %)Oracle Application Server
82 (0.909 %)Oracle Workflow
91 (0.455 %)WebSphere Application Server
91 (0.455 %)Tomcat
91 (0.455 %)Joomla!
Cheshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
19 (4.091 %)MS Excel
28 (3.636 %)MS Visio
34 (1.818 %)MS Office
42 (0.909 %)CA Clarity
51 (0.455 %)Fireworks
Cheshire IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (2.273 %)Oracle EBS
23 (1.364 %)Oracle Applications
32 (0.909 %)Oracle HRMS
32 (0.909 %)Oracle Financial Analyzer
32 (0.909 %)Oracle EBS R12
32 (0.909 %)Oracle iStore
32 (0.909 %)Oracle 11i
41 (0.455 %)GoldMine
Cheshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
116 (7.273 %)Internet
22 (0.909 %)Intranet
31 (0.455 %)LAN
31 (0.455 %)WAN
31 (0.455 %)Ethernet
Cheshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1139 (63.18 %)SQL Server
229 (13.18 %)SQL Server 2005
324 (10.91 %)MySQL
419 (8.636 %)SQL Server 2000
510 (4.545 %)BusinessObjects
510 (4.545 %)SQL Server 2008
510 (4.545 %)Datawarehouse
68 (3.636 %)Oracle 8/8i
75 (2.273 %)RDBMS
84 (1.818 %)Oracle 11g
93 (1.364 %)Oracle 10g
93 (1.364 %)TOAD
102 (0.909 %)Oracle Discoverer
102 (0.909 %)MS Access
102 (0.909 %)Oracle Reports
111 (0.455 %)Crystal Reports
111 (0.455 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
Cheshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
131 (14.09 %)Ant
228 (12.73 %)JUnit
325 (11.36 %)Visual Studio
418 (8.182 %)Dreamweaver
55 (2.273 %)QuickTest Pro
64 (1.818 %)Subversion
72 (0.909 %)Maven
72 (0.909 %)Team Foundation Server
72 (0.909 %)LoadRunner
72 (0.909 %)InstallShield
72 (0.909 %)WinRunner
72 (0.909 %)TestDirector
72 (0.909 %)Oracle Forms
81 (0.455 %)Eclipse
81 (0.455 %)VSS/SourceSafe
81 (0.455 %)NUnit
81 (0.455 %)MSTest
81 (0.455 %)JIRA
Cheshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
138 (17.27 %)Finance
227 (12.27 %)Retail
319 (8.636 %)Banking
319 (8.636 %)Pensions
415 (6.818 %)Retail Banking
59 (4.091 %)Insurance
68 (3.636 %)Health
76 (2.727 %)Marketing
85 (2.273 %)Education
93 (1.364 %)Telecoms
93 (1.364 %)Investment Banking
101 (0.455 %)Billing
101 (0.455 %)Animation
101 (0.455 %)Government
101 (0.455 %)Construction
101 (0.455 %)Pharmaceutical
101 (0.455 %)Electronics
Cheshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1178 (80.91 %)Developer
267 (30.45 %)Web Developer
365 (29.55 %).NET Developer
451 (23.18 %)C# Developer
544 (20.00 %)C# Web Developer
640 (18.18 %)ASP.NET Developer
640 (18.18 %)Java Developer
733 (15.00 %).NET Web Developer
822 (10.00 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
921 (9.545 %)Senior Developer
1019 (8.636 %)SQL Developer
1116 (7.273 %)Analyst
1215 (6.818 %)Applications Developer
1215 (6.818 %)Systems Developer
1215 (6.818 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1314 (6.364 %)Programmer
1413 (5.909 %)VB.NET Developer
1511 (5.000 %)J2EE Developer
1511 (5.000 %)PHP Developer
1511 (5.000 %)Senior C# Developer
Cheshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
119 (8.636 %)Multithreading
213 (5.909 %)N-Tier
38 (3.636 %)Data Integration
46 (2.727 %)iPhone
54 (1.818 %)Computer Science
54 (1.818 %)Blackberry
63 (1.364 %)Equities
63 (1.364 %)W3C
72 (0.909 %)Web 2.0
72 (0.909 %)Client/Server
81 (0.455 %)Social Network
Cheshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
119 (8.636 %)Linux
216 (7.273 %)UNIX
38 (3.636 %)Windows
41 (0.455 %)Windows CE
41 (0.455 %)Windows Mobile
Cheshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
138 (17.27 %)OOA/OOD
229 (13.18 %)E-Commerce
327 (12.27 %)Web Development
424 (10.91 %)OO
513 (5.909 %)UML
612 (5.455 %)SOA
79 (4.091 %)Unit Testing
79 (4.091 %)Data Management
79 (4.091 %)Data Architecture
88 (3.636 %)Content Management
88 (3.636 %)Data Analysis
88 (3.636 %)Enterprise Architecture
88 (3.636 %)Business Intelligence
88 (3.636 %)Data Modelling
97 (3.182 %)SEO
97 (3.182 %)Agile Software Development
105 (2.273 %)TDD
105 (2.273 %)Email Marketing
105 (2.273 %)Electronic Trading
114 (1.818 %)Scrum
Cheshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1104 (47.27 %)C#
298 (44.55 %)JavaScript
298 (44.55 %)SQL
362 (28.18 %)T-SQL
454 (24.55 %)Java
536 (16.36 %)PHP
627 (12.27 %)VB.NET
711 (5.000 %)C++
810 (4.545 %)C
810 (4.545 %)PL/SQL
98 (3.636 %)ActionScript
98 (3.636 %)VB
104 (1.818 %)VBScript
113 (1.364 %)Perl
122 (0.909 %)XPath
122 (0.909 %)VBA
131 (0.455 %)VB6
131 (0.455 %)ActionScript 3.0
Cheshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
118 (8.182 %)Degree
27 (3.182 %)Microsoft Certification
36 (2.727 %)MCSD
45 (2.273 %)ISEB
52 (0.909 %)Security Cleared
61 (0.455 %)MCAD
61 (0.455 %)BC Cleared
61 (0.455 %)MCTS
Cheshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (4.545 %)QA
Cheshire IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.455 %)MSI
Cheshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
129 (13.18 %)Oracle
225 (11.36 %)Microsoft
310 (4.545 %)Business Objects
45 (2.273 %)Interwoven
53 (1.364 %)BEA
61 (0.455 %)Apple
61 (0.455 %)Remedy
61 (0.455 %)Avaya
61 (0.455 %)Adobe
61 (0.455 %)JBoss
61 (0.455 %)Symbian