The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 21 37 22
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -15
Permanent jobs citing XML 6 9 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.521% 3.020% 5.817%
As % of the Application Development category 16.67% 14.75% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 17
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% -26.08%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +1.36%
All Application Development
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 61 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 15.13% 20.47% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27 42 45
Average salary £41,250 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £38,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £70,000 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
XML
England

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands XML Salary Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 9 (75.00%) UNIX
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) LDAP
2 6 (50.00%) SSL
2 6 (50.00%) HPUX
2 6 (50.00%) CA
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) CA SiteMinder
2 6 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) XSLT
4 4 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Maven
5 3 (25.00%) JDBC
5 3 (25.00%) SOAP
5 3 (25.00%) Ant
5 3 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (25.00%) iSeries
6 2 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
6 2 (16.67%) RESTful
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (16.67%) HTML5
6 2 (16.67%) CSS3
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 5 (41.67%) XSLT
2 3 (25.00%) JDBC
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (16.67%) XHTML
3 2 (16.67%) ASP
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 2 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.333%) Spring
4 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 1 (8.333%) Grails
4 1 (8.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) GlassFish
1 1 (8.333%) CICS
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
1 6 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Maven
1 3 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Systems Support
5 1 (8.333%) Programmer
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Developer
5 1 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) iSeries
2 1 (8.333%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.333%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) UNIX
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) HPUX
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) OWASP
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (8.333%) Kanban
4 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.333%) ETL
4 1 (8.333%) User Stories
4 1 (8.333%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (8.333%) COBOL
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) CA
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) HP
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