The first table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 22 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank 581 569 593
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +24
Permanent jobs citing RSS 20 80 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.045% 0.147% 0.065%
As % of the Application Development category 0.113% 0.360% 0.163%
Number of salaries quoted 18 69 22
Average salary £45,000 £41,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.43% +10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £30,050
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17682 22215 22674
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.18% 40.79% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15324 19788 19895
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
RSS
England

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London RSS Salary Trend

RSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RSS across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London RSS Salary Histogram

RSS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RSS within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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
Sidcup - 2 £32,500 -
City of London +7 1 - -
Orpington - 1 - -
RSS
England

RSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 48 (90.57%) CSS
2 40 (75.47%) HTML
3 33 (62.26%) PHP
4 32 (60.38%) XML
5 31 (58.49%) XHTML
5 31 (58.49%) Ajax
6 30 (56.60%) JavaScript
7 22 (41.51%) SQL
8 21 (39.62%) jQuery
9 20 (37.74%) W3C
10 19 (35.85%) IIS
11 18 (33.96%) MySQL
12 17 (32.08%) Apache
13 15 (28.30%) SQL Server
13 15 (28.30%) Google
14 14 (26.42%) MS Excel
15 13 (24.53%) CMS
16 12 (22.64%) SEO
17 11 (20.75%) SharePoint
17 11 (20.75%) JSON
17 11 (20.75%) Analytics
18 10 (18.87%) Mobile App
18 10 (18.87%) Mobile Application Development
18 10 (18.87%) Team Foundation Server
18 10 (18.87%) HTML5
18 10 (18.87%) SharePoint 2010
18 10 (18.87%) CSS3
18 10 (18.87%) Twitter
18 10 (18.87%) WCF
18 10 (18.87%) WF

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 48 (90.57%) CSS
2 40 (75.47%) HTML
3 32 (60.38%) XML
4 31 (58.49%) XHTML
4 31 (58.49%) Ajax
5 21 (39.62%) jQuery
6 11 (20.75%) JSON
7 10 (18.87%) HTML5
7 10 (18.87%) CSS3
7 10 (18.87%) WCF
7 10 (18.87%) WF
7 10 (18.87%) .NET
7 10 (18.87%) ASP.NET
8 9 (16.98%) SOAP
9 6 (11.32%) Symfony
9 6 (11.32%) CakePHP
9 6 (11.32%) Google Maps API
9 6 (11.32%) Kohana
9 6 (11.32%) YAML
9 6 (11.32%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 19 (35.85%) IIS
2 17 (32.08%) Apache
3 13 (24.53%) CMS
4 11 (20.75%) SharePoint
5 10 (18.87%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (9.434%) Drupal
7 4 (7.547%) SAS
7 4 (7.547%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (5.660%) nginx
8 3 (5.660%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (5.660%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.660%) WordPress
9 1 (1.887%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (1.887%) Escenic
Applications
1 14 (26.42%) MS Excel
2 9 (16.98%) MS Office
2 9 (16.98%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (7.547%) SPSS
3 4 (7.547%) Stata
4 3 (5.660%) Photoshop
4 3 (5.660%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (5.660%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 9 (16.98%) WebTrends
1 9 (16.98%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) HTTP
2 4 (7.547%) Internet
3 3 (5.660%) DNS
4 1 (1.887%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) MySQL
2 15 (28.30%) SQL Server
3 10 (18.87%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (7.547%) GIS
5 3 (5.660%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.660%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.887%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.887%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (9.434%) Git (software)
3 3 (5.660%) RSpec
3 3 (5.660%) Capistrano
3 3 (5.660%) Redmine
3 3 (5.660%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (5.660%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.660%) Subversion
4 1 (1.887%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 10 (18.87%) Legal
2 6 (11.32%) Games
3 5 (9.434%) Law
4 2 (3.774%) Finance
5 1 (1.887%) Advertising
5 1 (1.887%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (69.81%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Web Developer
3 11 (20.75%) PHP Developer
4 9 (16.98%) SEO Manager
5 8 (15.09%) Senior Developer
6 7 (13.21%) .NET Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Senior PHP Developer
8 5 (9.434%) Senior SEO Specialist
8 5 (9.434%) Graduate
8 5 (9.434%) Senior Manager
8 5 (9.434%) Graduate Web Developer
8 5 (9.434%) Drupal Developer
8 5 (9.434%) SEO Specialist
8 5 (9.434%) Graduate Developer
9 4 (7.547%) Analyst
9 4 (7.547%) Software Developer
9 4 (7.547%) Statistical Analyst
9 4 (7.547%) Statistician
10 3 (5.660%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.660%) Lead PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.74%) W3C
2 10 (18.87%) Mobile App
3 9 (16.98%) SaaS
4 4 (7.547%) NHS
5 3 (5.660%) Open Source
5 3 (5.660%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.774%) Web 2.0
6 2 (3.774%) Wiki
6 2 (3.774%) Blog
6 2 (3.774%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.887%) Data Integration
7 1 (1.887%) iPad
7 1 (1.887%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.887%) Social Media
7 1 (1.887%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.434%) Linux
2 3 (5.660%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) SEO
2 11 (20.75%) Analytics
3 10 (18.87%) Mobile Application Development
4 9 (16.98%) Scrum
4 9 (16.98%) Dependency Injection
5 8 (15.09%) OO
6 7 (13.21%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (11.32%) Kanban
7 6 (11.32%) MVC
7 6 (11.32%) CRM
7 6 (11.32%) E-Commerce
7 6 (11.32%) Web Application Development
8 5 (9.434%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (9.434%) Competitor Analysis
9 4 (7.547%) Content Management
9 4 (7.547%) Logistic Regression
10 3 (5.660%) TDD
11 2 (3.774%) Web Development
11 2 (3.774%) Data Modelling
12 1 (1.887%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (62.26%) PHP
2 30 (56.60%) JavaScript
3 22 (41.51%) SQL
4 8 (15.09%) Python
5 6 (11.32%) PHP5
5 6 (11.32%) C#
6 4 (7.547%) Java
6 4 (7.547%) R
7 3 (5.660%) Bash shell
7 3 (5.660%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.660%) Ruby
8 1 (1.887%) XQuery
8 1 (1.887%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.887%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Google
2 10 (18.87%) Twitter
3 9 (16.98%) Omniture
3 9 (16.98%) Facebook
4 6 (11.32%) Zend
5 4 (7.547%) Adobe
6 3 (5.660%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.887%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.887%) Talend
7 1 (1.887%) Brightcove
London
Key requirements Proven working knowledge of HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS Positioning, CSS3, RSS feeds, JavaScript. Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills (or equivalent) with a web design and development...
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Posted: 20 May 2013