The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML 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 Application Development category for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 20 22 18
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing XML 43 76 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 9.620% 11.29% 11.66%
As % of the Application Development category 19.20% 21.97% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 40 71 41
Average salary £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,600 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,309
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.20%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
224 346 210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 50.11% 51.41% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 194 311 168
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
North West

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside XML Salary Histogram

XML
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +7 33 £35,000 -1.40%
Southport +4 6 £27,500 -26.66%
St Helens +7 1 £23,000 -51.57%
XML
North West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 49 (56.98%) .NET
2 45 (52.33%) Web Services
3 44 (51.16%) ASP.NET
3 44 (51.16%) SQL
4 37 (43.02%) C#
5 36 (41.86%) Windows
6 35 (40.70%) CSS
6 35 (40.70%) SQL Server
7 33 (38.37%) Visual Studio
8 31 (36.05%) JavaScript
9 30 (34.88%) HTML
10 27 (31.40%) Linux
11 25 (29.07%) .NET Framework
12 23 (26.74%) jQuery
12 23 (26.74%) MVC
13 22 (25.58%) Finance
14 20 (23.26%) OO
14 20 (23.26%) UNIX
15 18 (20.93%) SQL Server 2008
16 17 (19.77%) Multithreading
16 17 (19.77%) ASP
17 16 (18.60%) T-SQL
18 15 (17.44%) Oracle
18 15 (17.44%) PHP
18 15 (17.44%) IIS
18 15 (17.44%) RDBMS
18 15 (17.44%) Degree
19 14 (16.28%) Agile Software Development
19 14 (16.28%) XSLT
20 13 (15.12%) WCF

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 49 (56.98%) .NET
2 45 (52.33%) Web Services
3 44 (51.16%) ASP.NET
4 35 (40.70%) CSS
5 30 (34.88%) HTML
6 25 (29.07%) .NET Framework
7 23 (26.74%) jQuery
8 17 (19.77%) ASP
9 14 (16.28%) XSLT
10 13 (15.12%) WCF
11 10 (11.63%) HTML5
12 9 (10.47%) XML Messaging
12 9 (10.47%) STL
12 9 (10.47%) Qt
12 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (10.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 9 (10.47%) LINQ
13 8 (9.302%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
13 8 (9.302%) ADO.NET
14 7 (8.140%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 15 (17.44%) IIS
2 7 (8.140%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.977%) Umbraco
4 5 (5.814%) Apache
5 4 (4.651%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (4.651%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (4.651%) WordPress
6 2 (2.326%) CMS
6 2 (2.326%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.326%) Magento
6 2 (2.326%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 8 (9.302%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.651%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.163%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.163%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (1.163%) Bond Adapt
1 1 (1.163%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.326%) Firewall
2 1 (1.163%) VoIP
2 1 (1.163%) SNMP
2 1 (1.163%) VPN
2 1 (1.163%) DNS
2 1 (1.163%) SSL
2 1 (1.163%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (40.70%) SQL Server
2 18 (20.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (17.44%) RDBMS
4 11 (12.79%) MySQL
5 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (9.302%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (6.977%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (2.326%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (2.326%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (2.326%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (38.37%) Visual Studio
2 12 (13.95%) Subversion
3 7 (8.140%) Git (software)
4 2 (2.326%) Xcode
4 2 (2.326%) NUnit
4 2 (2.326%) CruiseControl
4 2 (2.326%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (2.326%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.326%) MSTest
5 1 (1.163%) NetBeans
General
1 22 (25.58%) Finance
2 11 (12.79%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.651%) Banking
4 2 (2.326%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.326%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.326%) Marketing
5 1 (1.163%) Retail
5 1 (1.163%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 58 (67.44%) Developer
2 25 (29.07%) Analyst
3 23 (26.74%) .NET Developer
4 20 (23.26%) Technical Analyst
4 20 (23.26%) ASP.NET Developer
5 15 (17.44%) C# Developer
6 13 (15.12%) Web Developer
6 13 (15.12%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (13.95%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (10.47%) C++ Developer
9 8 (9.302%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (8.140%) Senior Developer
10 7 (8.140%) Systems Developer
11 5 (5.814%) Technical Support
12 4 (4.651%) Analyst Programmer
12 4 (4.651%) Programmer
12 4 (4.651%) Junior
12 4 (4.651%) Senior Analyst Programmer
12 4 (4.651%) Junior Developer
12 4 (4.651%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (9.302%) Digital Media
3 5 (5.814%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.326%) W3C
4 2 (2.326%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.163%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.163%) Social Media
5 1 (1.163%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 36 (41.86%) Windows
2 27 (31.40%) Linux
3 20 (23.26%) UNIX
4 9 (10.47%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (10.47%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.326%) Solaris
5 2 (2.326%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (1.163%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.163%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.74%) MVC
2 20 (23.26%) OO
3 17 (19.77%) Multithreading
4 14 (16.28%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (12.79%) Web Development
6 10 (11.63%) Logistics
7 9 (10.47%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (9.302%) OOD
9 7 (8.140%) Change Control
10 4 (4.651%) Unit Testing
10 4 (4.651%) Scrum
10 4 (4.651%) UML
10 4 (4.651%) Configuration Management
11 2 (2.326%) SEO
11 2 (2.326%) Web Design
11 2 (2.326%) Information Security
11 2 (2.326%) Penetration Testing
11 2 (2.326%) Data Management
11 2 (2.326%) Asset Management
11 2 (2.326%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.16%) SQL
2 37 (43.02%) C#
3 31 (36.05%) JavaScript
4 16 (18.60%) T-SQL
5 15 (17.44%) PHP
6 10 (11.63%) Perl
7 9 (10.47%) VB6
7 9 (10.47%) PL/SQL
7 9 (10.47%) C++
7 9 (10.47%) VB
7 9 (10.47%) VB.NET
8 4 (4.651%) Java
9 2 (2.326%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.326%) PHP5
10 1 (1.163%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.163%) Python
10 1 (1.163%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Degree
2 1 (1.163%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) QA
2 10 (11.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.326%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Oracle
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.651%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (1.163%) Zend
4 1 (1.163%) Adobe
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