The first table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank 316 312 324
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +12
Permanent jobs citing RSS 1 14 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.009% 0.106% 0.078%
As % of the Application Development category 0.022% 0.287% 0.213%
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 6
Average salary - £38,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +10.71%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4486 4885 5629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.43% 37.15% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3953 4586 5181
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RSS
London

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RSS Jobs Demand Trend

RSS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing RSS across the City of London region.

City of London RSS Salary Trend

RSS
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Acrobat
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Acrobat
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat