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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 49 17 12
Rank change year-on-year
-32 -5
Permanent jobs citing XML 34 63 116
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 3.324% 9.707% 14.74%
As % of the Application Development category 8.115% 22.26% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 29 54 115
Average salary £41,000 £33,386 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -1.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,700 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,750 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Application Development
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
419 283 438
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 40.96% 43.61% 55.65%
Number of salaries quoted 364 252 423
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Oxfordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 66 (55.93%) Java
2 50 (42.37%) SQL
2 50 (42.37%) C#
3 49 (41.53%) .NET
3 49 (41.53%) SQL Server
4 44 (37.29%) HTML
5 42 (35.59%) Microsoft
6 35 (29.66%) Web Services
7 34 (28.81%) JavaScript
8 33 (27.97%) ASP.NET
9 30 (25.42%) CSS
10 29 (24.58%) Degree
11 23 (19.49%) MVC
11 23 (19.49%) TDD
12 22 (18.64%) Oracle
13 17 (14.41%) Publishing
13 17 (14.41%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (13.56%) XML Schema
15 15 (12.71%) MS Excel
15 15 (12.71%) Python
15 15 (12.71%) VB
15 15 (12.71%) Big Data
16 14 (11.86%) Open Source
16 14 (11.86%) ASP.NET MVC
16 14 (11.86%) SQL Server 2008
16 14 (11.86%) Spring
16 14 (11.86%) JSON
16 14 (11.86%) Hibernate
16 14 (11.86%) XSLT
16 14 (11.86%) OO

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (41.53%) .NET
2 44 (37.29%) HTML
3 35 (29.66%) Web Services
4 33 (27.97%) ASP.NET
5 30 (25.42%) CSS
6 16 (13.56%) XML Schema
7 14 (11.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (11.86%) Spring
7 14 (11.86%) JSON
7 14 (11.86%) Hibernate
7 14 (11.86%) XSLT
8 13 (11.02%) Ajax
9 12 (10.17%) RESTful
9 12 (10.17%) jQuery
10 11 (9.322%) Java EE
10 11 (9.322%) .NET Framework
10 11 (9.322%) WCF
11 8 (6.780%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 8 (6.780%) HTML5
12 6 (5.085%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (10.17%) Amazon AWS
1 12 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
1 12 (10.17%) Amazon EMR
2 9 (7.627%) IIS
3 5 (4.237%) Tomcat
3 5 (4.237%) Apache Solr
4 4 (3.390%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.390%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (2.542%) CMS
5 3 (2.542%) ESB
6 2 (1.695%) WordPress
6 2 (1.695%) Drupal
6 2 (1.695%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.695%) Apache
7 1 (0.847%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.847%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.847%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 15 (12.71%) MS Excel
2 13 (11.02%) MS Office
3 8 (6.780%) MS Project
4 5 (4.237%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (2.542%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.847%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.542%) DNS
1 3 (2.542%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (41.53%) SQL Server
2 15 (12.71%) Big Data
3 14 (11.86%) SQL Server 2008
4 13 (11.02%) Hadoop
4 13 (11.02%) MongoDB
5 12 (10.17%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 6 (5.085%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.085%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (5.085%) MySQL
7 5 (4.237%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.390%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (1.695%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.695%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.847%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.847%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.847%) SQLite
10 1 (0.847%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.542%) NUnit
3 2 (1.695%) Subversion
3 2 (1.695%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.847%) MSI
4 1 (0.847%) JUnit
4 1 (0.847%) Git (software)
General
1 17 (14.41%) Publishing
2 11 (9.322%) Finance
2 11 (9.322%) Music
3 3 (2.542%) Music Industry
4 2 (1.695%) Marketing
5 1 (0.847%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 86 (72.88%) Developer
2 24 (20.34%) Software Developer
3 23 (19.49%) Analyst
4 18 (15.25%) Software Engineer
5 17 (14.41%) Senior Developer
6 15 (12.71%) .NET Developer
7 11 (9.322%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.780%) C# Developer
8 8 (6.780%) Analyst Developer
8 8 (6.780%) ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (5.932%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.932%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (5.085%) Programmer
11 5 (4.237%) Analyst Programmer
11 5 (4.237%) Java Analyst Programmer
11 5 (4.237%) Java Programmer
11 5 (4.237%) Developer Analyst
11 5 (4.237%) Python Developer
11 5 (4.237%) Python Programmer
11 5 (4.237%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Open Source
2 11 (9.322%) Taxonomies
2 11 (9.322%) Ontologies
3 10 (8.475%) Computer Science
4 8 (6.780%) Mathematics
5 6 (5.085%) Physics
6 5 (4.237%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.390%) N-Tier
7 4 (3.390%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.542%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.695%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.847%) Psychology
10 1 (0.847%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.847%) Mashup
10 1 (0.847%) Economics
10 1 (0.847%) SaaS
10 1 (0.847%) PaaS
10 1 (0.847%) Social Media
10 1 (0.847%) Kindle
10 1 (0.847%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.780%) Windows
2 3 (2.542%) UNIX
2 3 (2.542%) Linux
2 3 (2.542%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.847%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.847%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.49%) MVC
1 23 (19.49%) TDD
2 17 (14.41%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (11.86%) OO
4 12 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (10.17%) RDF
4 12 (10.17%) Scrum
5 11 (9.322%) Refactoring
6 10 (8.475%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.627%) Web Development
7 9 (7.627%) Software Engineering
8 8 (6.780%) OOP
9 7 (5.932%) Business Transformation
10 6 (5.085%) Content Management
10 6 (5.085%) Project Management
11 5 (4.237%) SOA
12 4 (3.390%) Unit Testing
12 4 (3.390%) Validation
12 4 (3.390%) Service Management
13 3 (2.542%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 66 (55.93%) Java
2 50 (42.37%) SQL
2 50 (42.37%) C#
3 34 (28.81%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.71%) Python
4 15 (12.71%) VB
5 12 (10.17%) VB6
6 11 (9.322%) VB.NET
6 11 (9.322%) C++
7 7 (5.932%) PHP
8 6 (5.085%) XPath
8 6 (5.085%) VBA
8 6 (5.085%) Delphi
9 5 (4.237%) Perl
10 4 (3.390%) ABAP
11 3 (2.542%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.542%) PHP5
12 2 (1.695%) Scala
12 2 (1.695%) Ruby
13 1 (0.847%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 29 (24.58%) Degree
2 10 (8.475%) SC Cleared
2 10 (8.475%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.390%) HND
4 2 (1.695%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.847%) ISEB
5 1 (0.847%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) Dublin Core
2 6 (5.085%) QA
3 1 (0.847%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.847%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (35.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.64%) Oracle
3 10 (8.475%) Sybase
4 4 (3.390%) SAP
4 4 (3.390%) Syclo
5 2 (1.695%) Zend
5 2 (1.695%) Adobe
6 1 (0.847%) EMC
6 1 (0.847%) Citrix
6 1 (0.847%) Altiris
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Net Developer with C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Agile and OOP (Object Orientated Programming) Our client, a leading consultancy company who build desktop and web portal solutions that...
Pertemps IT
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Any working knowledge of the following would be considered an advantage : - VB6, VB.NET - Data Access Pages, Citrix - ASP Classic/.NET - XML Educational/Technical Qualifications : - A recognised qualification...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Any working knowledge of the following would be considered an advantage : - VB6, VB.NET - Data Access Pages, Citrix - ASP Classic/.NET - XML Educational/Technical Qualifications : - A recognised qualification...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013