The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 23 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 24 45 18
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -27
Permanent jobs citing XML 50 32 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 7.257% 3.704% 8.299%
As % of the Application Development category 18.05% 10.77% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 45
Average salary £35,000 £33,750 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.70% +27.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £22,750 £19,400
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,309
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.20%
All Application Development
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
277 297 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 40.20% 34.38% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 256 241 256
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £42,450 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
England

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the North East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tyne and Wear +14 47 £35,000 +3.70%
Durham -1 1 - -
XML
England

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 67 (63.81%) C#
2 64 (60.95%) .NET
3 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
4 49 (46.67%) Scrum
5 47 (44.76%) HTML
6 44 (41.90%) CSS
6 44 (41.90%) Web Services
7 38 (36.19%) SQL Server
8 37 (35.24%) ASP.NET
9 36 (34.29%) SQL
9 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
10 29 (27.62%) TDD
11 28 (26.67%) MVC
11 28 (26.67%) Java
12 27 (25.71%) Oracle
13 26 (24.76%) Unit Testing
14 23 (21.90%) Agile Software Development
14 23 (21.90%) OO
15 22 (20.95%) jQuery
16 18 (17.14%) OOD
16 18 (17.14%) .NET Framework
17 17 (16.19%) JSP
17 17 (16.19%) C++
17 17 (16.19%) Finance
18 15 (14.29%) J2EE
19 14 (13.33%) SharePoint
19 14 (13.33%) Publishing
19 14 (13.33%) SharePoint Server
20 13 (12.38%) XSLT
21 11 (10.48%) ASP.NET MVC

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 64 (60.95%) .NET
2 47 (44.76%) HTML
3 44 (41.90%) CSS
3 44 (41.90%) Web Services
4 37 (35.24%) ASP.NET
5 22 (20.95%) jQuery
6 18 (17.14%) .NET Framework
7 17 (16.19%) JSP
8 15 (14.29%) J2EE
9 13 (12.38%) XSLT
10 11 (10.48%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (9.524%) JSON
11 10 (9.524%) LINQ
11 10 (9.524%) XHTML
12 9 (8.571%) Spring
13 8 (7.619%) Flash
13 8 (7.619%) Hibernate
14 7 (6.667%) ASP
14 7 (6.667%) Java EE
15 6 (5.714%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 14 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 14 (13.33%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (4.762%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.762%) Apache
3 3 (2.857%) Windows Azure
3 3 (2.857%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (1.905%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.952%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.952%) CMS
5 1 (0.952%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (9.524%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.952%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.952%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.952%) Fireworks
2 1 (0.952%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.952%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.905%) ZigBee
1 2 (1.905%) Modbus
1 2 (1.905%) GPRS
1 2 (1.905%) HTTP
1 2 (1.905%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.952%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.571%) MySQL
3 6 (5.714%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (5.714%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.857%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.905%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.952%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.952%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.952%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.952%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 10 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (4.762%) Ant
3 4 (3.810%) PHPUnit
3 4 (3.810%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.857%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.857%) Maven
5 2 (1.905%) Selenium
5 2 (1.905%) NUnit
5 2 (1.905%) JIRA
6 1 (0.952%) JUnit
6 1 (0.952%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.952%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.952%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.952%) MSTest
6 1 (0.952%) Subversion
6 1 (0.952%) Git (software)
General
1 17 (16.19%) Finance
2 14 (13.33%) Publishing
3 10 (9.524%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.810%) Billing
4 4 (3.810%) Games
5 3 (2.857%) Advertising
6 2 (1.905%) Banking
6 2 (1.905%) Electronics
7 1 (0.952%) Legal
7 1 (0.952%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (85.71%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 15 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 14 (13.33%) SharePoint Developer
5 10 (9.524%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.571%) Applications Developer
6 9 (8.571%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.714%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (5.714%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.762%) Senior SharePoint Developer
9 4 (3.810%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.810%) Junior
9 4 (3.810%) Analyst
9 4 (3.810%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (3.810%) Junior Developer
10 3 (2.857%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (2.857%) Flash Developer
10 3 (2.857%) Business Analyst
11 2 (1.905%) Junior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.810%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (3.810%) Open Source
2 2 (1.905%) Computer Science
2 2 (1.905%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.905%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.952%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.952%) W3C
3 1 (0.952%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.952%) Animation
3 1 (0.952%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.619%) Linux
1 8 (7.619%) UNIX
2 2 (1.905%) Fedora
2 2 (1.905%) Windows
3 1 (0.952%) Android
3 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.67%) Scrum
2 29 (27.62%) TDD
3 28 (26.67%) MVC
4 26 (24.76%) Unit Testing
5 23 (21.90%) Agile Software Development
5 23 (21.90%) OO
6 18 (17.14%) OOD
7 10 (9.524%) UML
8 9 (8.571%) BDD
9 6 (5.714%) RUP
10 4 (3.810%) Web Development
10 4 (3.810%) Content Management
10 4 (3.810%) ITIL
10 4 (3.810%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (2.857%) Information Security
11 3 (2.857%) Service Management
12 2 (1.905%) User Acceptance Testing
12 2 (1.905%) Technical Architecture
12 2 (1.905%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (1.905%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (63.81%) C#
2 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
3 36 (34.29%) SQL
4 28 (26.67%) Java
5 17 (16.19%) C++
6 8 (7.619%) VB.NET
7 7 (6.667%) PHP
8 6 (5.714%) ActionScript 3.0
8 6 (5.714%) ActionScript
8 6 (5.714%) Objective-C
9 4 (3.810%) C
9 4 (3.810%) Python
10 2 (1.905%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.905%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.905%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.905%) VB
11 1 (0.952%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.952%) VC++
11 1 (0.952%) VB6
11 1 (0.952%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 7 (6.667%) Degree
2 4 (3.810%) Sun Certification
3 2 (1.905%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.714%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.952%) WCAG
Vendors
1 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (25.71%) Oracle
3 6 (5.714%) Adobe
4 4 (3.810%) Citrix
4 4 (3.810%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.905%) JBoss
6 1 (0.952%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.952%) SAP
6 1 (0.952%) Progress
6 1 (0.952%) Sage
6 1 (0.952%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.952%) Twitter
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