The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Redditch region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Redditch region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 14 8 13
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +5
Permanent jobs citing XML 4 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 9.302% 8.696% 4.255%
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% 20.00% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
Average salary £24,000 £27,750 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.51% -3.47%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Application Development
Redditch
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
28 10 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 65.12% 43.48% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27 9 18
Average salary £32,500 £30,750 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.69% +11.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Worcestershire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redditch 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 Redditch region.

Redditch XML Salary Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 19 (90.48%) HTML
1 19 (90.48%) JavaScript
2 18 (85.71%) VB.NET
2 18 (85.71%) .NET
2 18 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 18 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 18 (85.71%) Web Services
2 18 (85.71%) MVC
2 18 (85.71%) Ajax
2 18 (85.71%) jQuery
3 17 (80.95%) Finance
4 16 (76.19%) XSLT
5 15 (71.43%) Scrum
5 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
5 15 (71.43%) Oracle
5 15 (71.43%) Web Development
5 15 (71.43%) .NET Framework
6 14 (66.67%) MS Excel
7 4 (19.05%) CSS
8 3 (14.29%) XSL
8 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 3 (14.29%) Web Design
8 3 (14.29%) Change Management
8 3 (14.29%) Banking
8 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (14.29%) WCF
8 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 2 (9.524%) Ubuntu
9 2 (9.524%) Git (software)

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 19 (90.48%) HTML
2 18 (85.71%) .NET
2 18 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 18 (85.71%) Ajax
2 18 (85.71%) Web Services
2 18 (85.71%) jQuery
3 16 (76.19%) XSLT
4 15 (71.43%) .NET Framework
5 4 (19.05%) CSS
6 3 (14.29%) WCF
6 3 (14.29%) XSL
7 1 (4.762%) Symfony
7 1 (4.762%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.762%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Git (software)
General
1 17 (80.95%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Developer
2 17 (80.95%) Web Developer
3 15 (71.43%) .NET Developer
4 14 (66.67%) .NET Web Developer
5 2 (9.524%) Junior
5 2 (9.524%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.762%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Linux
1 2 (9.524%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.762%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) MVC
2 15 (71.43%) Scrum
2 15 (71.43%) Web Development
3 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Web Design
3 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 3 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (4.762%) OOP
4 1 (4.762%) OO
4 1 (4.762%) TDD
4 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) JavaScript
2 18 (85.71%) VB.NET
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.524%) PHP
5 1 (4.762%) C#
5 1 (4.762%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Oracle
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.762%) Salesforce.com
Redditch, Worcestershire
In support of our continued expansion, we are looking to recruit a number of .Net/C# Developers to join our delivery team, working in an agile environment. This...
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Posted: 16 May 2013