The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XAML 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 72 103 98
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -5
Permanent jobs citing XAML 15 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.491% 0.073% 0.319%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.582% 0.108% 0.572%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 4
Average salary £48,750 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.70% -5.55%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Programming Languages
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
581 927 699
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 57.75% 67.42% 55.83%
Number of salaries quoted 501 763 599
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +5.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XAML
East of England

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Salary Trend

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

Essex XAML Salary Trend

XAML
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Basildon - 6 £45,000 -
Colchester +18 5 £55,000 +29.41%
XAML
East of England

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 21 (100.00%) C#
1 21 (100.00%) WPF
2 15 (71.43%) .NET
3 14 (66.67%) OOP
3 14 (66.67%) Silverlight
4 13 (61.90%) WCF
4 13 (61.90%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (52.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 11 (52.38%) .NET Framework
6 10 (47.62%) Web Services
6 10 (47.62%) SQL
6 10 (47.62%) T-SQL
6 10 (47.62%) Unit Testing
7 9 (42.86%) TDD
7 9 (42.86%) MSTest
7 9 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
7 9 (42.86%) Finance
8 7 (33.33%) Visual Studio
8 7 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
8 7 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
9 6 (28.57%) System Testing
9 6 (28.57%) Degree
9 6 (28.57%) C++
9 6 (28.57%) Windows
9 6 (28.57%) OOD
10 3 (14.29%) OO
10 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
11 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
11 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
11 2 (9.524%) Microsoft

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing XAML 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 XAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (100.00%) WPF
2 15 (71.43%) .NET
3 14 (66.67%) Silverlight
4 13 (61.90%) WCF
5 11 (52.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 11 (52.38%) .NET Framework
6 10 (47.62%) Web Services
7 7 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
9 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (4.762%) jQuery
9 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 1 (4.762%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (4.762%) XML
9 1 (4.762%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) MSTest
1 9 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.762%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Analyst
3 7 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 6 (28.57%) Software Manager
4 6 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (23.81%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (19.05%) .NET Developer
6 4 (19.05%) Developer Analyst
7 2 (9.524%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (9.524%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 2 (9.524%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (9.524%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (9.524%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.524%) WPF Developer
7 2 (9.524%) Silverlight Developer
8 1 (4.762%) Software Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (4.762%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.762%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.762%) Physics
2 1 (4.762%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) OOP
2 10 (47.62%) Unit Testing
3 9 (42.86%) TDD
4 7 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (28.57%) System Testing
5 6 (28.57%) OOD
6 3 (14.29%) OO
7 1 (4.762%) Performance Management
7 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
7 1 (4.762%) Multithreading
7 1 (4.762%) MVC
7 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) T-SQL
3 6 (28.57%) C++
4 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
Colchester, Essex
Strong C#/C++ programming using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows... As well as strong C# / C++ skills you will ideally have some experience of WPF / XAML for developing...
Technical Futures
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013