The first table below looks at the demand for XAML 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 XAML 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 Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 289 322 300
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -22
Permanent jobs citing XAML 28 1 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.241% 0.008% 0.146%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.448% 0.014% 0.267%
Number of salaries quoted 22 1 22
Average salary £50,000 £77,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.48% +142.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,250 £77,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6250 6955 8231
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 53.72% 52.98% 54.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5540 6513 7396
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XAML
London

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Salary Trend

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

City of London XAML Salary Trend

XAML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XAML across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London XAML Salary Histogram

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 49 (94.23%) C#
2 42 (80.77%) .NET
3 29 (55.77%) WPF
4 25 (48.08%) Silverlight
5 23 (44.23%) SQL Server
6 19 (36.54%) ASP.NET
7 18 (34.62%) WCF
7 18 (34.62%) MVVM
8 17 (32.69%) Web Services
9 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
9 16 (30.77%) TDD
10 15 (28.85%) Visual Studio
11 13 (25.00%) XML
12 12 (23.08%) Windows
12 12 (23.08%) OO
12 12 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
13 11 (21.15%) NUnit
13 11 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
13 11 (21.15%) Finance
14 10 (19.23%) CMS
14 10 (19.23%) BizTalk Server
14 10 (19.23%) E-Commerce
14 10 (19.23%) Multithreading
14 10 (19.23%) Digital Media
14 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
16 8 (15.38%) JSON
16 8 (15.38%) Banking
16 8 (15.38%) Expression Blend
16 8 (15.38%) HTML

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 42 (80.77%) .NET
2 29 (55.77%) WPF
3 25 (48.08%) Silverlight
4 19 (36.54%) ASP.NET
5 18 (34.62%) WCF
6 17 (32.69%) Web Services
7 13 (25.00%) XML
8 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
9 8 (15.38%) JSON
9 8 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 8 (15.38%) HTML
10 7 (13.46%) Ninject
10 7 (13.46%) LINQ
10 7 (13.46%) HTML5
11 6 (11.54%) jQuery
12 5 (9.615%) WSDL
12 5 (9.615%) SOAP
13 4 (7.692%) Protocol Buffers
14 3 (5.769%) WinForms
14 3 (5.769%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 10 (19.23%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (19.23%) CMS
2 4 (7.692%) IIS
3 1 (1.923%) Apache
3 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.923%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.615%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.923%) MS Office
2 1 (1.923%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.615%) Internet
2 2 (3.846%) NFC
3 1 (1.923%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (44.23%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.692%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.923%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Visual Studio
2 11 (21.15%) NUnit
3 8 (15.38%) Expression Blend
4 7 (13.46%) Rhino Mocks
5 6 (11.54%) MSBuild
6 4 (7.692%) MSTest
6 4 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (5.769%) Git (software)
7 3 (5.769%) Subversion
8 2 (3.846%) Maven
8 2 (3.846%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.846%) Jenkins
8 2 (3.846%) Hudson
8 2 (3.846%) JUnit
8 2 (3.846%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.923%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 11 (21.15%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Banking
3 5 (9.615%) Investment Banking
3 5 (9.615%) Games
4 2 (3.846%) Front Office
5 1 (1.923%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 48 (92.31%) Developer
2 26 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 14 (26.92%) .NET Developer
4 13 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (23.08%) WPF Developer
6 10 (19.23%) Silverlight Developer
7 4 (7.692%) Web Developer
7 4 (7.692%) C# Web Developer
8 3 (5.769%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.769%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (5.769%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Junior
9 2 (3.846%) Junior C# Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Junior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Junior Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Designer
9 2 (3.846%) UI Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Front-End Developer
9 2 (3.846%) Junior C# .NET Developer
10 1 (1.923%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Digital Media
1 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (15.38%) New Media
3 5 (9.615%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (9.615%) Kinect
4 4 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.846%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.846%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.846%) Cryptography
5 2 (3.846%) Derivative
5 2 (3.846%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (3.846%) Java Card
6 1 (1.923%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.923%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.923%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.923%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (3.846%) Android
2 2 (3.846%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.846%) Windows Phone 8
2 2 (3.846%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) MVVM
2 16 (30.77%) TDD
3 12 (23.08%) OO
4 11 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (19.23%) E-Commerce
5 10 (19.23%) Multithreading
6 7 (13.46%) BDD
7 6 (11.54%) Web Development
8 4 (7.692%) Unit Testing
8 4 (7.692%) Scrum
9 3 (5.769%) MVC
9 3 (5.769%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (3.846%) OOP
11 1 (1.923%) OOA/OOD
11 1 (1.923%) CRM
11 1 (1.923%) Data Modelling
11 1 (1.923%) OOD
11 1 (1.923%) SOA
11 1 (1.923%) Project Management
11 1 (1.923%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (94.23%) C#
2 7 (13.46%) SQL
3 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.615%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.769%) VC++
6 2 (3.846%) Java
7 1 (1.923%) C++
7 1 (1.923%) Ruby
7 1 (1.923%) F#
7 1 (1.923%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.692%) Oracle
2 4 (7.692%) Reuters
2 4 (7.692%) Bloomberg
2 4 (7.692%) Telerik
2 4 (7.692%) SAP
3 1 (1.923%) Business Objects
3 1 (1.923%) Adobe
City, London
An immediate position has come up for a WPF Developer to join our frontend development team. You will have good knowledge of XAML and will have experience of...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
A UX, C#, WPF, HTML5 Developer is needed for this well established FX Services company based in Central London. The UX, C#, WPF, HTML5 Developer will be designing...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate will have a good understanding of the Microsoft .net framework including: *.net framework and C# *Visual Studio *ASP.Net *Silverlight (XAML with data bindings etc) *...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Requirements: Strong C# .Net design and development skills. Strong WPF / XAML... Desirable skills include: HTML5, real-time UX trader displays, Silverlight, C++, MFC, Agile (TDD / BDD), UNIX / Linux,...
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £80k + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
This is a great C# role for an excellent C#developer with or without banking experience. The C# candidate needs to demonstrate in-depth OOD, multi-threaded development,...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Develop and deliver high quality Windows Phone applications ?... High proficiency in C#, object oriented programming and technical design ? Solid understanding of Silverlight and XAML. Experience of DirectX and...
FPSG Connect
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare and Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013