The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 48 - 51
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing XAML 15 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.086% - 0.519%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.808% - 0.823%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 2
Average salary £35,000 - £22,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Programming Languages
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
312 347 243
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 64.20% 63.21% 63.12%
Number of salaries quoted 285 330 220
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -3.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XAML
North West

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Preston - 11 £35,000 -
XAML
North West

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 13 (52.00%) C#
2 12 (48.00%) HTML
2 12 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (48.00%) .NET
2 12 (48.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (48.00%) CSS
2 12 (48.00%) XML
2 12 (48.00%) Subversion
2 12 (48.00%) Ruby
2 12 (48.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 12 (48.00%) WPF
2 12 (48.00%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (48.00%) Git (software)
2 12 (48.00%) nginx
2 12 (48.00%) Open Source
2 12 (48.00%) MVVM
2 12 (48.00%) jQuery
2 12 (48.00%) Sinatra
2 12 (48.00%) Node.js
3 9 (36.00%) Underscore.js
3 9 (36.00%) E-Commerce
4 7 (28.00%) MVC
4 7 (28.00%) VB
4 7 (28.00%) Silverlight
5 6 (24.00%) Visual Studio
5 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 5 (20.00%) VB.NET
6 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 5 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 12 (48.00%) HTML
1 12 (48.00%) .NET
1 12 (48.00%) CSS
1 12 (48.00%) XML
1 12 (48.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 12 (48.00%) WPF
1 12 (48.00%) jQuery
1 12 (48.00%) Sinatra
1 12 (48.00%) Node.js
2 9 (36.00%) Underscore.js
3 7 (28.00%) Silverlight
4 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 12 (48.00%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Subversion
1 12 (48.00%) Git (software)
2 6 (24.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 25 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (48.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 12 (48.00%) Software Developer
3 7 (28.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 7 (28.00%) C# Software Developer
3 7 (28.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (28.00%) C# Developer
3 7 (28.00%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Open Source
2 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.000%) New Media
2 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.000%) Windows Phone
1 1 (4.000%) Windows Phone 7
1 1 (4.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Continuous Integration
1 12 (48.00%) MVVM
2 9 (36.00%) E-Commerce
3 7 (28.00%) MVC
4 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.000%) Scrum
4 1 (4.000%) OOP
4 1 (4.000%) OO
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) C#
2 12 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (48.00%) Ruby
3 7 (28.00%) VB
4 5 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Twitter