The first table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank 83 - 93
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing RSS 7 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.600% - 0.097%
As % of the Application Development category 1.556% - 0.189%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
450 302 530
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.56% 42.54% 51.26%
Number of salaries quoted 382 273 496
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RSS
South East

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent RSS Jobs Demand Trend

RSS
Salary Trend

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

Kent RSS Salary Trend

RSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) XHTML
2 11 (91.67%) SharePoint
2 11 (91.67%) Legal
2 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (91.67%) IIS
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
2 11 (91.67%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) HTML
2 11 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (91.67%) Ajax
2 11 (91.67%) WCF
2 11 (91.67%) WF
2 11 (91.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 11 (91.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (91.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 11 (91.67%) Mobile App
2 11 (91.67%) Mobile Application Development
3 7 (58.33%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) Law
5 1 (8.333%) MVC
5 1 (8.333%) W3C
5 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
5 1 (8.333%) MySQL
5 1 (8.333%) XML
5 1 (8.333%) OO
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) Web Development

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) HTML
2 11 (91.67%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
2 11 (91.67%) XHTML
2 11 (91.67%) Ajax
2 11 (91.67%) WCF
2 11 (91.67%) WF
3 1 (8.333%) jQuery
3 1 (8.333%) Smarty
3 1 (8.333%) HTML5
3 1 (8.333%) REST
3 1 (8.333%) CSS3
3 1 (8.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) IIS
1 11 (91.67%) SharePoint
1 11 (91.67%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (91.67%) Legal
2 4 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (41.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (41.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (41.67%) C# Developer
4 5 (41.67%) Web Developer
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.333%) W3C
2 1 (8.333%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (91.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (8.333%) Web Development
2 1 (8.333%) OO
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) C#
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree