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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 34 30 20
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -10
Permanent jobs citing XML 17 18 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 5.231% 6.207% 14.61%
As % of the Application Development category 8.947% 12.86% 22.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 44
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +30.08%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,800 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £50,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +1.36%
All Application Development
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
190 140 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 58.46% 48.28% 63.64%
Number of salaries quoted 181 123 190
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
XML
Suffolk

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Ipswich XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 30 (68.18%) Ajax
2 29 (65.91%) SOAP
3 28 (63.64%) jQuery
4 26 (59.09%) UML
5 25 (56.82%) Java
6 24 (54.55%) JavaScript
7 21 (47.73%) J2EE
8 20 (45.45%) Spring
8 20 (45.45%) TDD
8 20 (45.45%) Computer Science
8 20 (45.45%) Degree
9 19 (43.18%) Web Services
10 17 (38.64%) Agile Software Development
10 17 (38.64%) Finance
10 17 (38.64%) OO
10 17 (38.64%) JBoss
10 17 (38.64%) Tomcat
10 17 (38.64%) Windows
10 17 (38.64%) Linux
10 17 (38.64%) JSON
10 17 (38.64%) REST
11 16 (36.36%) XSLT
11 16 (36.36%) C#
11 16 (36.36%) .NET
12 14 (31.82%) CSS
13 13 (29.55%) SQL
14 11 (25.00%) WCF
14 11 (25.00%) WF
14 11 (25.00%) Web Development
14 11 (25.00%) MVC

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 30 (68.18%) Ajax
2 29 (65.91%) SOAP
3 28 (63.64%) jQuery
4 21 (47.73%) J2EE
5 20 (45.45%) Spring
6 19 (43.18%) Web Services
7 17 (38.64%) JSON
7 17 (38.64%) REST
8 16 (36.36%) XSLT
8 16 (36.36%) .NET
9 14 (31.82%) CSS
10 11 (25.00%) WCF
10 11 (25.00%) WF
10 11 (25.00%) XHTML
11 7 (15.91%) HTML
11 7 (15.91%) Hibernate
12 4 (9.091%) DHTML
12 4 (9.091%) Servlets
12 4 (9.091%) Tapestry
13 2 (4.545%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 17 (38.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (6.818%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) Big Data
2 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.818%) Maven
2 3 (6.818%) Subversion
2 3 (6.818%) Ant
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 2 (4.545%) Games
2 2 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (90.91%) Developer
2 22 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 22 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 18 (40.91%) Java Software Developer
4 15 (34.09%) .NET Developer
5 13 (29.55%) C# Developer
5 13 (29.55%) C# .NET Developer
6 11 (25.00%) Web Developer
7 8 (18.18%) Graduate
8 6 (13.64%) Graduate Software Developer
8 6 (13.64%) Graduate Developer
8 6 (13.64%) Graduate Java Developer
9 5 (11.36%) Junior Java Software Developer
9 5 (11.36%) Junior Software Developer
9 5 (11.36%) Junior Developer
9 5 (11.36%) Junior Java Developer
9 5 (11.36%) Junior
10 3 (6.818%) Administrator
10 3 (6.818%) SQL DBA
10 3 (6.818%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 6 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.64%) Speech Recognition
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Windows
1 17 (38.64%) Linux
2 4 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) UML
2 20 (45.45%) TDD
3 17 (38.64%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (38.64%) OO
4 11 (25.00%) Web Development
4 11 (25.00%) MVC
4 11 (25.00%) OOD
5 9 (20.45%) Analytics
6 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
7 3 (6.818%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.545%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 25 (56.82%) Java
2 24 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 16 (36.36%) C#
4 13 (29.55%) SQL
5 5 (11.36%) T-SQL
6 4 (9.091%) Perl
6 4 (9.091%) Python
7 3 (6.818%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (6.818%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) JBoss
2 4 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.818%) VMware