The first table below looks at the demand for XQuery 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 XQuery over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XQuery
Rank 284 310 324
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +14
Permanent jobs citing XQuery 37 13 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.317% 0.100% 0.045%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.590% 0.187% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 7
Average salary £55,000 £27,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+100.00% -63.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £27,500 £33,913
10% offered a salary of more than £60,500 £59,500 £97,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.00%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6266 6970 8398
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 53.72% 53.35% 54.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5543 6523 7549
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%
XQuery
London

XQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XQuery Jobs Demand Trend

XQuery
Salary Trend

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

City of London XQuery Salary Trend

XQuery
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XQuery across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London XQuery Salary Histogram

XQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 35 (94.59%) Java
2 32 (86.49%) jQuery
3 30 (81.08%) Semantic Web
3 30 (81.08%) RESTful
3 30 (81.08%) XSLT
3 30 (81.08%) Apache
4 29 (78.38%) TDD
4 29 (78.38%) Spring
4 29 (78.38%) J2EE
5 28 (75.68%) HTML
5 28 (75.68%) SQL Server
5 28 (75.68%) JSP
5 28 (75.68%) MVC
5 28 (75.68%) MarkLogic
6 27 (72.97%) JMS
6 27 (72.97%) Struts
7 26 (70.27%) Web Services
7 26 (70.27%) CSS
7 26 (70.27%) MySQL
7 26 (70.27%) Squid
7 26 (70.27%) JSTL
7 26 (70.27%) Spring MVC
8 24 (64.86%) Publishing
9 14 (37.84%) CIPD
9 14 (37.84%) Technical Architecture
10 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
10 9 (24.32%) XML
11 5 (13.51%) SQL
12 4 (10.81%) XSL
12 4 (10.81%) RDF

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (86.49%) jQuery
2 30 (81.08%) RESTful
2 30 (81.08%) XSLT
3 29 (78.38%) Spring
3 29 (78.38%) J2EE
4 28 (75.68%) HTML
4 28 (75.68%) JSP
5 27 (72.97%) JMS
5 27 (72.97%) Struts
6 26 (70.27%) Web Services
6 26 (70.27%) CSS
6 26 (70.27%) JSTL
6 26 (70.27%) Spring MVC
7 9 (24.32%) XML
8 4 (10.81%) XSL
8 4 (10.81%) HTML5
9 3 (8.108%) JDBC
10 2 (5.405%) ODBC
10 2 (5.405%) Hibernate
10 2 (5.405%) OLE
Application Platforms
1 30 (81.08%) Apache
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.405%) Documentum
4 1 (2.703%) CMS
4 1 (2.703%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) MS Project
1 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
1 2 (5.405%) MS Visio
1 2 (5.405%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.405%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (75.68%) SQL Server
1 28 (75.68%) MarkLogic
2 26 (70.27%) MySQL
3 2 (5.405%) MS Access
3 2 (5.405%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.703%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (5.405%) JIRA
2 1 (2.703%) Maven
2 1 (2.703%) Ant
General
1 24 (64.86%) Publishing
2 2 (5.405%) Banking
2 2 (5.405%) Finance
3 1 (2.703%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (81.08%) Developer
2 29 (78.38%) Java Developer
3 14 (37.84%) Senior Java Developer
3 14 (37.84%) Senior Developer
3 14 (37.84%) Architect
3 14 (37.84%) Java Architect
3 14 (37.84%) Senior Java Architect
3 14 (37.84%) Senior Architect
4 3 (8.108%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.405%) Team Leader
6 1 (2.703%) Java Analyst Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Analyst
6 1 (2.703%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (81.08%) Semantic Web
2 4 (10.81%) Ontologies
3 2 (5.405%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.703%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.703%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.108%) Linux
1 3 (8.108%) UNIX
2 2 (5.405%) Windows
2 2 (5.405%) Windows XP
2 2 (5.405%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.703%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) TDD
2 28 (75.68%) MVC
3 14 (37.84%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (10.81%) RDF
5 2 (5.405%) Migration
5 2 (5.405%) Scrum
5 2 (5.405%) Asset Management
5 2 (5.405%) Data Management
5 2 (5.405%) Code Coverage
5 2 (5.405%) Wealth Management
5 2 (5.405%) Unit Testing
5 2 (5.405%) Portfolio Management
6 1 (2.703%) Analytics
6 1 (2.703%) BDD
6 1 (2.703%) Investment Management
6 1 (2.703%) Kanban
6 1 (2.703%) Web Development
6 1 (2.703%) SOA
6 1 (2.703%) Content Management
6 1 (2.703%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (94.59%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) SPARQL
4 4 (10.81%) XPath
5 2 (5.405%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.405%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) CIPD
2 1 (2.703%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 26 (70.27%) Squid
Vendors
1 3 (8.108%) Oracle
2 2 (5.405%) IBM
3 1 (2.703%) BEA
3 1 (2.703%) Sun