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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XMLHttpRequest (XHR)
Rank 606 628 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Permanent jobs citing XHR 3 12 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.007% 0.022% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.017% 0.055% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 0
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +22.03%
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17628 21915 22788
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.41% 40.73% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 15300 19550 19930
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%
XHR
England

XHR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London XHR Jobs Demand Trend

XHR
Salary Trend

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

London XHR Salary Trend

XHR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing XHR 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 XHR.

1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 13 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 13 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
1 13 (100.00%) DOM
1 13 (100.00%) Flash
1 13 (100.00%) XHTML
1 13 (100.00%) Games
1 13 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
1 13 (100.00%) Tapestry
1 13 (100.00%) Dojo
1 13 (100.00%) YUI
1 13 (100.00%) jQuery
1 13 (100.00%) HTML5
1 13 (100.00%) SproutCore
1 13 (100.00%) CSS3
2 11 (84.62%) Backbone.js
2 11 (84.62%) Spine.js
2 11 (84.62%) HTML5 Canvas
2 11 (84.62%) Raphaël
2 11 (84.62%) SVG
3 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (61.54%) Git (software)
3 8 (61.54%) Mercurial
3 8 (61.54%) Progressive Enhancement
3 8 (61.54%) Graceful Degradation
3 8 (61.54%) Subversion
4 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
5 5 (38.46%) HTML

XHR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing XHR 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 XHR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
1 13 (100.00%) Tapestry
1 13 (100.00%) Dojo
1 13 (100.00%) YUI
1 13 (100.00%) jQuery
1 13 (100.00%) HTML5
1 13 (100.00%) SproutCore
1 13 (100.00%) CSS3
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
1 13 (100.00%) DOM
1 13 (100.00%) Flash
1 13 (100.00%) XHTML
2 11 (84.62%) SVG
2 11 (84.62%) Backbone.js
2 11 (84.62%) Spine.js
2 11 (84.62%) HTML5 Canvas
2 11 (84.62%) Raphaël
3 5 (38.46%) HTML
Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 13 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Subversion
1 8 (61.54%) Git (software)
1 8 (61.54%) Mercurial
General
1 13 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (69.23%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Online Games
2 2 (15.38%) Social Gaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (61.54%) Progressive Enhancement
1 8 (61.54%) Graceful Degradation
2 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
3 4 (30.77%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 13 (100.00%) ActionScript
London
Key Skills: XHTML + HTML5. CSS 2/3. Javascript including Closures, Lambdas, DOM manipulation, XHR... JQuery, Dojo, YUI, Prototype SproutCore... Flash and Action Script... Git, Mercurial, Subversion) Knowledge and...
Gerrard White
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum Bonus, Healthcare
Posted: 14 May 2013