The first table below looks at the demand for XQuery skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XQuery 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 Programming Languages category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XQuery
Rank 143 - 149
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing XQuery 14 0 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.448% - 0.227%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.768% - 0.488%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
Average salary £40,000 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -2.70%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1823 1597 1639
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 58.34% 46.38% 46.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1105 1233 1195
Average salary £39,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £48,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XQuery
UK

XQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing XQuery across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Scotland XQuery Jobs Demand Trend

XQuery
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing XQuery across the Scotland region.

Scotland XQuery Salary Trend

XQuery
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XQuery within the Scotland 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
Glasgow - 9 - -
Edinburgh - 5 £40,000 -
XQuery
UK

XQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 12 (85.71%) C#
3 9 (64.29%) Java
3 9 (64.29%) J2EE
3 9 (64.29%) UNIX
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle 8/8i
3 9 (64.29%) JMS
3 9 (64.29%) Hibernate
3 9 (64.29%) Banking
3 9 (64.29%) Spring
3 9 (64.29%) Maven
3 9 (64.29%) Degree
3 9 (64.29%) Apache Flex
3 9 (64.29%) MarkLogic
4 7 (50.00%) Open Source
4 7 (50.00%) HTML5
4 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (50.00%) Hudson
4 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (50.00%) QlikView
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
4 7 (50.00%) Use Case
4 7 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 7 (50.00%) Subversion
4 7 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (50.00%) TDD
4 7 (50.00%) Data Analysis

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) J2EE
2 9 (64.29%) JMS
2 9 (64.29%) Hibernate
2 9 (64.29%) Spring
2 9 (64.29%) Apache Flex
3 7 (50.00%) HTML5
3 7 (50.00%) FpML
3 7 (50.00%) Web Services
3 7 (50.00%) XML
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
4 5 (35.71%) CSS
4 5 (35.71%) .NET Framework
4 5 (35.71%) WCF
4 5 (35.71%) jQuery
4 5 (35.71%) Regular Expression
5 2 (14.29%) iBATIS
5 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) BlazeDS
5 2 (14.29%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Qpid
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle 8/8i
1 9 (64.29%) MarkLogic
2 7 (50.00%) QlikView
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Maven
2 7 (50.00%) Hudson
2 7 (50.00%) Subversion
2 7 (50.00%) MagicDraw
2 7 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 7 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (14.29%) Flash Builder
3 2 (14.29%) Ant
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Banking
3 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
1 14 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior .NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior C# Developer
3 5 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Open Source
1 7 (50.00%) Derivative
1 7 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 7 (50.00%) Equities
1 7 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (35.71%) SWIFT
3 2 (14.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Use Case
1 7 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 7 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (50.00%) TDD
1 7 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 7 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 7 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
1 7 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 7 (50.00%) OO
1 7 (50.00%) RAD
1 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) OOD
2 5 (35.71%) Automated Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Content Management
3 2 (14.29%) Document Management
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (85.71%) C#
3 9 (64.29%) Java
4 7 (50.00%) Python
4 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (35.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) Cognos
2 7 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 7 (50.00%) Sybase
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Undertake database design work, primarily on Microsoft SQL server... The candidate should be able to demonstrate: Excellent knowledge of software development using C# and ASP.NET and Microsoft ...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent company benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Strong Software Engineering background in Java, J2EE and knowledge of OO Design Patterns. Hands on experience of Spring, Hibernate/iBatis. Strong working knowledge of XML and related technologies,...
JP Morgan
Salary: Highly Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013