The first table below looks at the demand for XHR skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XHR over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XMLHttpRequest (XHR)
Rank 833 858 848
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -10
Permanent jobs citing XHR 11 11 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.011% 0.010% 0.012%
As % of the Application Development category 0.027% 0.023% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 14
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +52.54%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +42.37%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41221 47891 49369
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.49% 42.25% 40.64%
Number of salaries quoted 36155 42700 43917
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
XHR
UK

XHR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England XHR Jobs Demand Trend

XHR
Salary Trend

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

England XHR Salary Trend

XHR
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XHR within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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XHR
UK

XHR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing XHR 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 XHR.

1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 24 (100.00%) CSS
1 24 (100.00%) HTML5
2 23 (95.83%) XHTML
3 14 (58.33%) CSS3
3 14 (58.33%) jQuery
4 13 (54.17%) Photoshop
4 13 (54.17%) DOM
5 12 (50.00%) JSON
6 11 (45.83%) Dojo
6 11 (45.83%) Spring
6 11 (45.83%) Tapestry
6 11 (45.83%) SproutCore
6 11 (45.83%) YUI
6 11 (45.83%) ActionScript
6 11 (45.83%) Flash
6 11 (45.83%) SVG
6 11 (45.83%) Games
6 11 (45.83%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (45.83%) HTML5 Canvas
7 10 (41.67%) Raphaël
7 10 (41.67%) Spine.js
7 10 (41.67%) OO
7 10 (41.67%) MySQL
7 10 (41.67%) PHP
7 10 (41.67%) XML
7 10 (41.67%) Moodle
7 10 (41.67%) Backbone.js
7 10 (41.67%) LAMP
8 9 (37.50%) Git (software)

XHR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing XHR 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 XHR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (100.00%) CSS
1 24 (100.00%) HTML5
2 23 (95.83%) XHTML
3 14 (58.33%) CSS3
3 14 (58.33%) jQuery
4 13 (54.17%) DOM
5 12 (50.00%) JSON
6 11 (45.83%) Dojo
6 11 (45.83%) Spring
6 11 (45.83%) Tapestry
6 11 (45.83%) SproutCore
6 11 (45.83%) YUI
6 11 (45.83%) Flash
6 11 (45.83%) SVG
6 11 (45.83%) HTML5 Canvas
7 10 (41.67%) Raphaël
7 10 (41.67%) Spine.js
7 10 (41.67%) XML
7 10 (41.67%) Backbone.js
7 10 (41.67%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) Moodle
Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Photoshop
2 11 (45.83%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git (software)
2 7 (29.17%) Mercurial
2 7 (29.17%) Subversion
3 1 (4.167%) Ant
3 1 (4.167%) Selenium
General
1 11 (45.83%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (41.67%) PHP Developer
2 10 (41.67%) LAMP Developer
2 10 (41.67%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Online Games
2 1 (4.167%) Social Media
2 1 (4.167%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) UNIX
1 2 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) OO
2 7 (29.17%) Progressive Enhancement
2 7 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (29.17%) Graceful Degradation
3 6 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (12.50%) Game Development
5 2 (8.333%) OOP
6 1 (4.167%) MVC
6 1 (4.167%) SEO
6 1 (4.167%) Web Design
6 1 (4.167%) Web Development
6 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (45.83%) ActionScript
3 10 (41.67%) PHP
4 2 (8.333%) SQL
4 2 (8.333%) Perl
5 1 (4.167%) Ruby
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Twitter
2 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.167%) Apple
2 1 (4.167%) Facebook