City of London RSS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Location Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh England Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Kent Leeds London Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Norfolk North West Peterborough Redhill Reigate Scotland Sheffield South East South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	371	318
Rank change on same period last year	-53
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.029 %	0.106 %
Salaries quoted	2	5
Average minimum salary	£42,500	£39,200
Average salary	£45,500	£39,700
% change on same period last year	+14.60 %
Average maximum salary	£48,500	£40,200
UK excluding London average salary	£34,858	£34,436
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Application Development City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	7005	5679
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.435 %	2.514 %
Salaries quoted	6053	4622
Average minimum salary	£46,205	£48,862
Average salary	£51,562	£53,706
% change on same period last year	-3.99 %
Average maximum salary	£56,919	£58,550
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
RSS London

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing RSS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing RSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing RSS.

1 5 (71.43 %) HTML 2 4 (57.14 %) Java 3 3 (42.86 %) SQL 3 3 (42.86 %) CSS 3 3 (42.86 %) XML 3 3 (42.86 %) Eclipse 3 3 (42.86 %) Finance 3 3 (42.86 %) AJAX 4 2 (28.57 %) FIX Protocol 4 2 (28.57 %) SWT 4 2 (28.57 %) Degree 4 2 (28.57 %) TIBCO 4 2 (28.57 %) Rendezvous 4 2 (28.57 %) SSL 4 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft

4 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 4 2 (28.57 %) Servlets 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows 4 2 (28.57 %) Apache 4 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 4 2 (28.57 %) WebLogic 5 1 (14.29 %) IIS 5 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 5 1 (14.29 %) ASP 5 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (14.29 %) Perl 5 1 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 5 1 (14.29 %) VB 5 1 (14.29 %) VBA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing RSS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (71.43 %) HTML 2 3 (42.86 %) CSS 2 3 (42.86 %) XML 2 3 (42.86 %) AJAX 3 2 (28.57 %) SWT 3 2 (28.57 %) FIX Protocol 3 2 (28.57 %) Servlets 4 1 (14.29 %) SOAP 4 1 (14.29 %) WebServices 4 1 (14.29 %) JSP 4 1 (14.29 %) .NET 4 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 4 1 (14.29 %) ASP 4 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (14.29 %) WF 4 1 (14.29 %) Ruby on Rails 4 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (14.29 %) XSLT 4 1 (14.29 %) Swing 4 1 (14.29 %) AWT	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) Apache 1 2 (28.57 %) WebLogic 1 2 (28.57 %) Rendezvous 2 1 (14.29 %) IIS 2 1 (14.29 %) Tomcat 2 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint 2 1 (14.29 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Photoshop 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) e-Work
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) SSL 2 1 (14.29 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (14.29 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) Eclipse 2 1 (14.29 %) Ant	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 2 1 (14.29 %) Law 2 1 (14.29 %) Publishing 2 1 (14.29 %) Banking 2 1 (14.29 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (14.29 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (14.29 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Java Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Junior Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Junior Java Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Junior 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Web Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux 2 1 (14.29 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 1 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (14.29 %) B2C 1 1 (14.29 %) RDF 1 1 (14.29 %) Process Management 1 1 (14.29 %) BPM 1 1 (14.29 %) Workflow 1 1 (14.29 %) Web Design 1 1 (14.29 %) Refactoring
Programming Languages 1 4 (57.14 %) Java 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL 3 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 4 1 (14.29 %) Perl 4 1 (14.29 %) C# 4 1 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 4 1 (14.29 %) VB 4 1 (14.29 %) VBA 4 1 (14.29 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 1 2 (28.57 %) TIBCO 2 1 (14.29 %) Metastorm 2 1 (14.29 %) Retek 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle