The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 12 10 19
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +9
Permanent jobs citing XML 63 70 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 15.83% 19.18% 8.904%
As % of the Application Development category 29.86% 35.00% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 55 68 21
Average salary £37,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.84% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £36,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Application Development
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
211 200 133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 53.02% 54.79% 45.55%
Number of salaries quoted 188 194 119
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +11.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £19,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Leicestershire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leicester XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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.

1 105 (90.52%) .NET
2 102 (87.93%) C#
3 100 (86.21%) SQL Server
4 83 (71.55%) Ajax
5 80 (68.97%) jQuery
6 77 (66.38%) MVC
7 76 (65.52%) ASP.NET
8 75 (64.66%) CSS
9 71 (61.21%) SQL
10 67 (57.76%) XHTML
11 66 (56.90%) HTML5
12 62 (53.45%) XSLT
13 54 (46.55%) CSS3
14 50 (43.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (41.38%) ASP.NET MVC
16 47 (40.52%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 45 (38.79%) Web Accessibility
18 44 (37.93%) E-Commerce
19 43 (37.07%) Microsoft
20 38 (32.76%) Scrum
21 37 (31.90%) ASP
21 37 (31.90%) Visual Studio
21 37 (31.90%) JavaScript
21 37 (31.90%) OWASP
22 35 (30.17%) RESTful
22 35 (30.17%) Web Services
23 33 (28.45%) UML
24 31 (26.72%) Internet
24 31 (26.72%) Retail
24 31 (26.72%) Marketing

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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
1 105 (90.52%) .NET
2 83 (71.55%) Ajax
3 80 (68.97%) jQuery
4 76 (65.52%) ASP.NET
5 75 (64.66%) CSS
6 67 (57.76%) XHTML
7 66 (56.90%) HTML5
8 62 (53.45%) XSLT
9 54 (46.55%) CSS3
10 48 (41.38%) ASP.NET MVC
11 47 (40.52%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 37 (31.90%) ASP
13 35 (30.17%) Web Services
13 35 (30.17%) RESTful
14 26 (22.41%) HTML
15 10 (8.621%) WCF
16 7 (6.034%) .NET Framework
17 4 (3.448%) JSON
17 4 (3.448%) Zend Framework
18 3 (2.586%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.448%) Apache
1 4 (3.448%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.586%) Magento
3 2 (1.724%) Windows Azure
3 2 (1.724%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (1.724%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.862%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.862%) CMS
4 1 (0.862%) Joomla!
4 1 (0.862%) Drupal
4 1 (0.862%) WordPress
4 1 (0.862%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (19.83%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.448%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.586%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (1.724%) SAP Retail
1 2 (1.724%) Retail-J
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.72%) Internet
2 10 (8.621%) LDAP
3 2 (1.724%) LAN
3 2 (1.724%) WAN
3 2 (1.724%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (86.21%) SQL Server
2 18 (15.52%) DTS
2 18 (15.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (9.483%) MySQL
4 8 (6.897%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (6.034%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (1.724%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.862%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 37 (31.90%) Visual Studio
2 29 (25.00%) NUnit
3 6 (5.172%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.586%) Subversion
5 2 (1.724%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.862%) JIRA
6 1 (0.862%) Selenium
General
1 31 (26.72%) Retail
1 31 (26.72%) Marketing
2 17 (14.66%) Back Office
3 16 (13.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 94 (81.03%) Developer
2 46 (39.66%) C# Developer
3 44 (37.93%) C# .NET Developer
4 43 (37.07%) .NET Developer
5 35 (30.17%) ASP.NET Developer
5 35 (30.17%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 25 (21.55%) Senior Developer
7 17 (14.66%) Web Developer
8 16 (13.79%) Software Developer
9 12 (10.34%) Team Leader
9 12 (10.34%) .NET Team Leader
10 11 (9.483%) Senior .NET Developer
10 11 (9.483%) Senior C# Developer
10 11 (9.483%) Analyst
11 10 (8.621%) C++ Developer
11 10 (8.621%) C++ Software Developer
12 9 (7.759%) .NET Web Developer
12 9 (7.759%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
12 9 (7.759%) C# Web Developer
13 8 (6.897%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Management Information System
2 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
3 10 (8.621%) PKI
3 10 (8.621%) Mathematics
3 10 (8.621%) Smartcard
3 10 (8.621%) Blackberry
4 3 (2.586%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.724%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.862%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.862%) Open Source
6 1 (0.862%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.69%) Windows
2 16 (13.79%) Android
3 12 (10.34%) Apple iOS
4 10 (8.621%) BlackBerry OS
5 4 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (66.38%) MVC
2 50 (43.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (38.79%) Web Accessibility
4 44 (37.93%) E-Commerce
5 38 (32.76%) Scrum
6 37 (31.90%) OWASP
7 33 (28.45%) UML
8 30 (25.86%) Extreme Programming
9 15 (12.93%) Web Development
10 12 (10.34%) Test Scripting
11 11 (9.483%) OO
12 10 (8.621%) Information Security
12 10 (8.621%) Software Engineering
12 10 (8.621%) Cyber Security
13 7 (6.034%) Agile Software Development
13 7 (6.034%) Logistics
14 6 (5.172%) Requirements Analysis
14 6 (5.172%) Change Control
14 6 (5.172%) Project Management
15 5 (4.310%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 102 (87.93%) C#
2 71 (61.21%) SQL
3 37 (31.90%) JavaScript
4 26 (22.41%) Java
5 24 (20.69%) VB
6 22 (18.97%) VBScript
7 13 (11.21%) VB.NET
8 12 (10.34%) C++
9 9 (7.759%) PHP
9 9 (7.759%) T-SQL
10 6 (5.172%) C
11 3 (2.586%) Perl
11 3 (2.586%) PHP5
12 2 (1.724%) VC++
12 2 (1.724%) VB6
12 2 (1.724%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.759%) Degree
2 1 (0.862%) MCSD
2 1 (0.862%) ISEB
2 1 (0.862%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.724%) SLA
1 2 (1.724%) QA
2 1 (0.862%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.724%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.724%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Oracle
3 6 (5.172%) Zend
4 2 (1.724%) SAP
4 2 (1.724%) Citrix
4 2 (1.724%) Symantec
4 2 (1.724%) Sophos
4 2 (1.724%) VMware
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