County Antrim XML Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the County Antrim region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carnforth Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Frome Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Longfield Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Sale Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	22
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	10.26 %	22.95 %
Salaries quoted	2	11
Average minimum salary	£47,500	£37,091
Average salary	£47,500	£41,591
% change on same period last year	+14.20 %
Average maximum salary	£47,500	£46,091
UK excluding London average salary	£35,819	£36,655
% change on same period last year	-2.27 %
Application Development County Antrim
Matching permanent IT job ads	39	61
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.025 %
Salaries quoted	16	41
Average minimum salary	£36,233	£40,125
Average salary	£38,317	£44,785
% change on same period last year	-14.44 %
Average maximum salary	£40,400	£49,444
UK excluding London average salary	£35,926	£36,840
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
XML Northern Ireland

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing XML across the County Antrim 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 citing XML across the County Antrim region.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Belfast	-1	4	£47,500	+14.20 %

XML Northern Ireland

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the County Antrim region citing XML 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 XML.

1 10 (62.50 %) OO 1 10 (62.50 %) Java 2 9 (56.25 %) JUnit 2 9 (56.25 %) Flash 2 9 (56.25 %) Hibernate 2 9 (56.25 %) Spring 3 8 (50.00 %) Ant 3 8 (50.00 %) Dojo 3 8 (50.00 %) FitNesse 3 8 (50.00 %) Eclipse 3 8 (50.00 %) Perl 4 7 (43.75 %) CruiseControl 4 7 (43.75 %) Subversion 4 7 (43.75 %) Ruby 4 7 (43.75 %) Ruby on Rails

4 7 (43.75 %) Web 2.0 5 5 (31.25 %) WebServices 6 4 (25.00 %) C# 6 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 7 3 (18.75 %) .NET 7 3 (18.75 %) ASP 7 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 7 3 (18.75 %) Integration Testing 7 3 (18.75 %) Degree 7 3 (18.75 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 8 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 8 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint 8 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the County Antrim region citing XML 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 XML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (56.25 %) Hibernate 1 9 (56.25 %) Spring 2 8 (50.00 %) Dojo 3 7 (43.75 %) Ruby on Rails 4 5 (31.25 %) WebServices 5 3 (18.75 %) .NET 5 3 (18.75 %) ASP 6 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 6 2 (12.50 %) J2EE 6 2 (12.50 %) JDBC 7 1 (6.250 %) Struts 7 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (6.250 %) Flex 2 7 1 (6.250 %) JSF 7 1 (6.250 %) AJAX 7 1 (6.250 %) COM 7 1 (6.250 %) XSLT 7 1 (6.250 %) JMS 7 1 (6.250 %) JAXB 7 1 (6.250 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) SharePoint 1 2 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Commerce Server 2 1 (6.250 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Visio	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (6.250 %) EDRMS 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 9 (56.25 %) Flash 1 9 (56.25 %) JUnit 2 8 (50.00 %) Ant 2 8 (50.00 %) FitNesse 2 8 (50.00 %) Eclipse 3 7 (43.75 %) CruiseControl 3 7 (43.75 %) Subversion 4 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 1 1 (6.250 %) Education 1 1 (6.250 %) Health 1 1 (6.250 %) Retail 1 1 (6.250 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 13 (81.25 %) Developer 2 8 (50.00 %) Java Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Software Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Java Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Flash Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Flash Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Java Software Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Web Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (43.75 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (12.50 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (62.50 %) OO 2 3 (18.75 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (18.75 %) Integration Testing 3 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 4 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 10 (62.50 %) Java 2 8 (50.00 %) Perl 3 7 (43.75 %) Ruby 4 4 (25.00 %) C# 5 2 (12.50 %) VB 6 1 (6.250 %) ActionScript 6 1 (6.250 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (6.250 %) Progress