The first table below looks at the demand for XMPP skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XMPP over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Jabber)
Rank 253 265 269
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +4
Permanent jobs citing XMPP 9 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.108% 0.057% 0.011%
As % of the Application Development category 0.265% 0.120% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 1
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £52,750 £43,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+22.67% -14.00%
All Application Development
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3392 4183 4065
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 40.88% 47.71% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3057 3567 3544
Average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,844 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XMPP
England

XMPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England XMPP Jobs Demand Trend

XMPP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XMPP across the East of England region.

East of England XMPP Salary Trend

XMPP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XMPP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England XMPP Salary Histogram

XMPP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XMPP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire - 7 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire +7 2 £41,000 +9.33%
XMPP
England

XMPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing XMPP 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 XMPP.

1 6 (66.67%) C
2 5 (55.56%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) C++
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 5 (55.56%) Solaris
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) HTTP
2 5 (55.56%) Mac OS X
2 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) SMPP
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
2 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Taleo
2 5 (55.56%) Erlang
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 3 (33.33%) CCNP
4 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (22.22%) SonicWALL
5 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (22.22%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (22.22%) tcpdump
5 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
5 2 (22.22%) Juniper
5 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 2 (22.22%) Firewall
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security

XMPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing XMPP 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 XMPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) HTTP
1 5 (55.56%) SMPP
2 2 (22.22%) tcpdump
2 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) SNMP
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) WLAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Development Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Solaris
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
1 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C
2 5 (55.56%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) C++
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) SonicWALL
2 2 (22.22%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft