The first table below looks at the demand for XSD 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 XSD 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 Application Development category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 285 292 307
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +15
Permanent jobs citing XSD 36 31 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.309% 0.237% 0.156%
As % of the Application Development category 0.802% 0.634% 0.427%
Number of salaries quoted 34 29 24
Average salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
UK excluding London average salary £36,600 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year
-8.50% +1.26%
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4488 4889 5623
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.47% 37.42% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3945 4578 5183
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%
XSD
London

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Salary Trend

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

City of London XSD Salary Trend

XSD
Salary Histogram

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

City of London XSD Salary Histogram

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 82 (94.25%) XML
2 64 (73.56%) SQL
3 57 (65.52%) Agile Software Development
4 51 (58.62%) Java
5 43 (49.43%) JavaScript
6 41 (47.13%) CSS
7 38 (43.68%) .NET
7 38 (43.68%) Ajax
8 37 (42.53%) ASP.NET
9 36 (41.38%) HTML
10 35 (40.23%) C#
10 35 (40.23%) Web Services
11 34 (39.08%) SQL Server
11 34 (39.08%) TDD
12 33 (37.93%) Finance
13 32 (36.78%) HTML5
14 31 (35.63%) BDD
14 31 (35.63%) Visual Studio
14 31 (35.63%) OOP
15 29 (33.33%) Maven
16 27 (31.03%) E-Commerce
17 26 (29.89%) DHTML
18 25 (28.74%) Banking
18 25 (28.74%) XSLT
19 24 (27.59%) XHTML
19 24 (27.59%) QA
19 24 (27.59%) SQL Server 2008
20 23 (26.44%) jQuery
21 22 (25.29%) JMS
21 22 (25.29%) Multimedia

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 82 (94.25%) XML
2 41 (47.13%) CSS
3 38 (43.68%) .NET
3 38 (43.68%) Ajax
4 37 (42.53%) ASP.NET
5 36 (41.38%) HTML
6 35 (40.23%) Web Services
7 32 (36.78%) HTML5
8 26 (29.89%) DHTML
9 25 (28.74%) XSLT
10 24 (27.59%) XHTML
11 23 (26.44%) jQuery
12 22 (25.29%) JMS
13 19 (21.84%) Spring
14 17 (19.54%) Guice
14 17 (19.54%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (18.39%) J2EE
16 14 (16.09%) XSL
17 12 (13.79%) SOAP
18 10 (11.49%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 17 (19.54%) CMS
2 10 (11.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (9.195%) Apache
4 6 (6.897%) ESB
5 2 (2.299%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.299%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (1.149%) Mule
6 1 (1.149%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.149%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (1.149%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.149%) IIS
6 1 (1.149%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (2.299%) Maya
2 1 (1.149%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.149%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.149%) RMDS
1 1 (1.149%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.149%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.94%) HTTP
2 5 (5.747%) Intranet
3 4 (4.598%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (39.08%) SQL Server
2 24 (27.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (4.598%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (4.598%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.299%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.299%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (35.63%) Visual Studio
2 29 (33.33%) Maven
3 18 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 17 (19.54%) Hudson
5 12 (13.79%) Ant
6 10 (11.49%) Xcode
7 9 (10.34%) Selenium
8 8 (9.195%) Behat
9 6 (6.897%) Eclipse
9 6 (6.897%) JUnit
10 4 (4.598%) IntelliJ
10 4 (4.598%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (4.598%) XMLUnit
11 2 (2.299%) Subversion
11 2 (2.299%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
12 1 (1.149%) Checkstyle
12 1 (1.149%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.149%) Git (software)
12 1 (1.149%) PHPUnit
12 1 (1.149%) NUnit
General
1 33 (37.93%) Finance
2 25 (28.74%) Banking
3 22 (25.29%) Multimedia
3 22 (25.29%) Publishing
4 18 (20.69%) Front Office
5 17 (19.54%) Financial Institution
6 7 (8.046%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.747%) Retail
8 2 (2.299%) Games
9 1 (1.149%) Marketing
9 1 (1.149%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 65 (74.71%) Developer
2 26 (29.89%) Java Developer
3 25 (28.74%) Senior Developer
4 12 (13.79%) Web Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (11.49%) .NET Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Senior Web Developer
8 8 (9.195%) Java Programmer
8 8 (9.195%) Test Engineer
8 8 (9.195%) Programmer
8 8 (9.195%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (8.046%) SharePoint Developer
10 5 (5.747%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.598%) Architect
11 4 (4.598%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (4.598%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (4.598%) C# Developer
12 3 (3.448%) webMethods Developer
12 3 (3.448%) UI Developer
12 3 (3.448%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Social Media
1 18 (20.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (19.54%) Hedge funds
3 9 (10.34%) Digital Media
4 8 (9.195%) Web 2.0
5 6 (6.897%) Open Source
5 6 (6.897%) Blog
6 5 (5.747%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.598%) Inversion of Control
7 4 (4.598%) Derivative
7 4 (4.598%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (3.448%) Computer Science
8 3 (3.448%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.299%) Blackberry
9 2 (2.299%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (2.299%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.299%) Online Games
9 2 (2.299%) Credit Risk
9 2 (2.299%) Animation
10 1 (1.149%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Solaris
2 10 (11.49%) Linux
3 7 (8.046%) Apple iOS
4 6 (6.897%) Windows
5 4 (4.598%) UNIX
6 2 (2.299%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (65.52%) Agile Software Development
2 34 (39.08%) TDD
3 31 (35.63%) BDD
3 31 (35.63%) OOP
4 27 (31.03%) E-Commerce
5 19 (21.84%) MVC
5 19 (21.84%) Multithreading
6 12 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (12.64%) OO
8 9 (10.34%) Web Development
9 8 (9.195%) SOA
9 8 (9.195%) Build Automation
9 8 (9.195%) User Stories
9 8 (9.195%) Automation Testing
10 7 (8.046%) Content Management
10 7 (8.046%) Waterfall
11 6 (6.897%) Unit Testing
12 5 (5.747%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (5.747%) Web Accessibility
12 5 (5.747%) UML
Programming Languages
1 64 (73.56%) SQL
2 51 (58.62%) Java
3 43 (49.43%) JavaScript
4 35 (40.23%) C#
5 12 (13.79%) Python
6 11 (12.64%) PHP
7 8 (9.195%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.598%) VBA
8 4 (4.598%) XPath
9 3 (3.448%) Perl
10 2 (2.299%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.299%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.149%) PHP5
11 1 (1.149%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.149%) XAML
11 1 (1.149%) C
11 1 (1.149%) Ada
Qualifications
1 7 (8.046%) Degree
2 1 (1.149%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) QA
2 5 (5.747%) WAI
Vendors
1 18 (20.69%) Sybase
2 17 (19.54%) Facebook
3 6 (6.897%) Oracle
4 3 (3.448%) Software AG
4 3 (3.448%) webMethods
5 2 (2.299%) IBM
5 2 (2.299%) JBoss
5 2 (2.299%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.149%) Pega
6 1 (1.149%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.149%) Red Hat
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Salary: £75000 - £110000 per annum
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Salary: £80000 - £150000 per annum + Bonus
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Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £95000 per annum + Bonus
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Skills Required: Derivatives asset class exposure developing pricing applications in C# XML, XSLT, XSD and C++ Multithreaded Development Understanding of continuous integration / testing tools such as: Teamcity, Perforce...
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Salary: £75000 - £110000 per annum
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