Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Reading region.

 Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank202023
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Up+3
Matching permanent IT job ads70103204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading7.361 %6.637 %6.507 %
As % of the Application Development category22.01 %23.20 %24.43 %
Salaries quoted5884159
Average salary£37,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.250 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,700£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£53,250£52,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£33,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.490 %-4.280 %
Reading IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
318444835
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading33.44 %28.61 %26.63 %
Salaries quoted259376693
Average salary£41,000£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.490 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
XML BerkshireXML
Berkshire

XML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Reading XML Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XML across the Reading region.

Reading XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Reading XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

176 (50.00 %).NET
266 (43.42 %)C#
357 (37.50 %)ASP.NET
450 (32.89 %)SQL Server
549 (32.24 %)SQL
645 (29.61 %)HTML
645 (29.61 %)JavaScript
741 (26.97 %)AJAX
836 (23.68 %)Microsoft
836 (23.68 %)SQL Server 2005
933 (21.71 %)Java
1030 (19.74 %)Security Cleared
1129 (19.08 %)CSS
1129 (19.08 %)Web Services
1223 (15.13 %)Windows
1322 (14.47 %)J2EE
1421 (13.82 %)SC Cleared
1519 (12.50 %)EDI
1519 (12.50 %)Insurance
1618 (11.84 %)JSP
1717 (11.18 %)VB.NET
1717 (11.18 %)Web Development
1816 (10.53 %)XSLT
1816 (10.53 %)SQL Server 2000
1915 (9.868 %)TIBCO
1915 (9.868 %)Spring
2014 (9.211 %)Oracle
2014 (9.211 %)SharePoint
2014 (9.211 %)WCF
2113 (8.553 %)PHP

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

Reading IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
176 (50.00 %).NET
257 (37.50 %)ASP.NET
345 (29.61 %)HTML
441 (26.97 %)AJAX
529 (19.08 %)CSS
529 (19.08 %)Web Services
622 (14.47 %)J2EE
719 (12.50 %)EDI
818 (11.84 %)JSP
916 (10.53 %)XSLT
1015 (9.868 %)Spring
1114 (9.211 %)WCF
1213 (8.553 %)Hibernate
1312 (7.895 %)NHibernate
1312 (7.895 %)MonoRail
1410 (6.579 %)WPF
1410 (6.579 %)WebSphere
1410 (6.579 %)XHTML
159 (5.921 %)SOAP
167 (4.605 %)JDBC
Reading IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
114 (9.211 %)SharePoint
210 (6.579 %)SharePoint Server 2007
38 (5.263 %)IIS
38 (5.263 %)BizTalk Server
45 (3.289 %)WebSphere Portal
54 (2.632 %)TIBCO EMS
54 (2.632 %)Apache
54 (2.632 %)Tomcat
62 (1.316 %)NetWeaver
62 (1.316 %)WebLogic
71 (0.658 %)Office Project Server
71 (0.658 %)Moodle
71 (0.658 %)CMS
71 (0.658 %)Oracle Workflow
71 (0.658 %)SharePoint Portal Server
Reading IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (3.947 %)MS Excel
25 (3.289 %)MS Office
33 (1.974 %)MS Visio
33 (1.974 %)FrameMaker
41 (0.658 %)InfoPath
41 (0.658 %)MS Project
Reading IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (5.921 %)BusinessWorks
Reading IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (2.632 %)TCP/IP
14 (2.632 %)SSL
22 (1.316 %)Nokia NetAct
31 (0.658 %)HTTP
31 (0.658 %)3G
31 (0.658 %)Firewall
31 (0.658 %)2G
Reading IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
150 (32.89 %)SQL Server
236 (23.68 %)SQL Server 2005
316 (10.53 %)SQL Server 2000
412 (7.895 %)SQL Server 2008
412 (7.895 %)MySQL
55 (3.289 %)RDBMS
63 (1.974 %)OLAP
63 (1.974 %)DTS
72 (1.316 %)DB2
81 (0.658 %)DB2 UDB
Reading IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
112 (7.895 %)NUnit
112 (7.895 %)Rhino Mocks
27 (4.605 %)Ant
27 (4.605 %)Visual Studio
36 (3.947 %)Eclipse
45 (3.289 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
54 (2.632 %)Subversion
54 (2.632 %)JUnit
62 (1.316 %)PVCS
62 (1.316 %)VSS/SourceSafe
62 (1.316 %)Dreamweaver
62 (1.316 %)TestDirector
62 (1.316 %)QuickTest Pro
62 (1.316 %)StarTeam
71 (0.658 %)Maven
71 (0.658 %)Xcode
Reading IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
119 (12.50 %)Insurance
213 (8.553 %)Finance
312 (7.895 %)Marketing
48 (5.263 %)Publishing
55 (3.289 %)Education
55 (3.289 %)Health
64 (2.632 %)Pensions
64 (2.632 %)Telecoms
73 (1.974 %)Games
73 (1.974 %)Retail
73 (1.974 %)Construction
82 (1.316 %)Government
91 (0.658 %)Advertising
91 (0.658 %)Pharmaceutical
91 (0.658 %)Back Office
Reading IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1101 (66.45 %)Developer
223 (15.13 %).NET Developer
320 (13.16 %)Java Developer
419 (12.50 %)C# Developer
518 (11.84 %)ASP.NET Developer
615 (9.868 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
711 (7.237 %)SharePoint Developer
711 (7.237 %)Software Developer
810 (6.579 %)Consultant
810 (6.579 %)Designer
810 (6.579 %)SharePoint Designer
99 (5.921 %)Web Developer
108 (5.263 %)Senior Developer
108 (5.263 %)Java/J2EE Developer
117 (4.605 %)Technical Support
126 (3.947 %)Applications Support
126 (3.947 %)Analyst
135 (3.289 %)Junior
135 (3.289 %)Technical Consultant
135 (3.289 %)J2EE Developer
Reading IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (3.947 %)German Language
25 (3.289 %)Tandem
25 (3.289 %)Web 2.0
33 (1.974 %)Photography
42 (1.316 %)Data Extraction
42 (1.316 %)W3C
42 (1.316 %)French Language
51 (0.658 %)Clustering
51 (0.658 %)FMCG
51 (0.658 %)iPhone
51 (0.658 %)Visualisation
51 (0.658 %)Computer Science
Reading IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
123 (15.13 %)Windows
210 (6.579 %)Windows Server 2003
35 (3.289 %)Linux
44 (2.632 %)Windows 2000
44 (2.632 %)Windows XP
44 (2.632 %)Windows Vista
44 (2.632 %)Red Hat Linux
52 (1.316 %)UNIX
61 (0.658 %)Mac OS
61 (0.658 %)AIX
61 (0.658 %)HPUX
61 (0.658 %)Solaris
Reading IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
117 (11.18 %)Web Development
213 (8.553 %)E-Commerce
213 (8.553 %)TDD
310 (6.579 %)Service Management
49 (5.921 %)ITIL
49 (5.921 %)Workflow
49 (5.921 %)Scrum
49 (5.921 %)Direct Marketing
58 (5.263 %)Requirements Analysis
66 (3.947 %)Agile Software Development
66 (3.947 %)OO
66 (3.947 %)MVC
66 (3.947 %)Project Management
75 (3.289 %)RAD
84 (2.632 %)Document Management
84 (2.632 %)Incident Management
93 (1.974 %)Usability Testing
93 (1.974 %)Release Management
93 (1.974 %)Information Architecture
93 (1.974 %)Time Management
Reading IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
166 (43.42 %)C#
249 (32.24 %)SQL
345 (29.61 %)JavaScript
433 (21.71 %)Java
517 (11.18 %)VB.NET
613 (8.553 %)PHP
79 (5.921 %)T-SQL
87 (4.605 %)XPath
96 (3.947 %)VB
105 (3.289 %)VBScript
114 (2.632 %)C
123 (1.974 %)PHP5
132 (1.316 %)C++
141 (0.658 %)ActionScript 3.0
141 (0.658 %)ActionScript 2.0
141 (0.658 %)ActionScript
141 (0.658 %)VBA
141 (0.658 %)XAML
141 (0.658 %)Objective-C
Reading IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
130 (19.74 %)Security Cleared
221 (13.82 %)SC Cleared
310 (6.579 %)Microsoft Certification
48 (5.263 %)MCAD
48 (5.263 %)MCSD
57 (4.605 %)Degree
66 (3.947 %)MCP
66 (3.947 %)MCTS
74 (2.632 %)ITIL Certification
81 (0.658 %)MCPD
Reading IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (3.947 %)SLA
22 (1.316 %)QA
Reading IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
111 (7.237 %)Active Directory
24 (2.632 %)MSMQ
Reading IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
136 (23.68 %)Microsoft
215 (9.868 %)TIBCO
314 (9.211 %)Oracle
413 (8.553 %)JBoss
59 (5.921 %)ATG
64 (2.632 %)VMware
64 (2.632 %)Red Hat
64 (2.632 %)Zend
64 (2.632 %)IBM
72 (1.316 %)SAP
72 (1.316 %)Nokia
72 (1.316 %)Borland
81 (0.658 %)Remedy
81 (0.658 %)Yahoo!
81 (0.658 %)Google