The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Shropshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 21 23 15
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Permanent jobs citing XML 11 10 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 5.670% 6.098% 9.189%
As % of the Application Development category 21.57% 14.93% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 11
Average salary £34,000 £37,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.93% -5.62%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +1.36%
All Application Development
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
51 67 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 26.29% 40.85% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 55 103
Average salary £32,500 £31,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.83% -8.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £21,350 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,400 £67,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
XML
West Midlands

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire XML Salary Trend

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 Shropshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Telford -6 6 £32,500 -14.47% 1
Shrewsbury - 3 £34,000 -
XML
West Midlands

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 24 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 23 (63.89%) MVC
2 23 (63.89%) SQL
3 22 (61.11%) .NET
4 19 (52.78%) C#
5 18 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 18 (50.00%) CSS
5 18 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 17 (47.22%) HTML
7 16 (44.44%) ASP.NET
8 15 (41.67%) Web Services
8 15 (41.67%) T-SQL
8 15 (41.67%) SQL Server
8 15 (41.67%) Ajax
9 13 (36.11%) Web Development
9 13 (36.11%) jQuery
9 13 (36.11%) XSLT
9 13 (36.11%) Oracle
9 13 (36.11%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 12 (33.33%) Java
11 11 (30.56%) J2EE
11 11 (30.56%) JDBC
11 11 (30.56%) JSP
11 11 (30.56%) TOAD
11 11 (30.56%) Waterfall
12 10 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (25.00%) Software Architecture
13 9 (25.00%) RUP
13 9 (25.00%) Advertising
13 9 (25.00%) Spring MVC

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 22 (61.11%) .NET
2 18 (50.00%) CSS
3 17 (47.22%) HTML
4 16 (44.44%) ASP.NET
5 15 (41.67%) Web Services
5 15 (41.67%) Ajax
6 13 (36.11%) jQuery
6 13 (36.11%) ASP.NET MVC 2
6 13 (36.11%) XSLT
7 11 (30.56%) J2EE
7 11 (30.56%) JDBC
7 11 (30.56%) JSP
8 10 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (25.00%) Spring
9 9 (25.00%) Spring MVC
10 4 (11.11%) COM
11 3 (8.333%) WPF
12 2 (5.556%) LINQ
12 2 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 2 (5.556%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.556%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.556%) Apache
2 2 (5.556%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.556%) JRun
3 1 (2.778%) CMS
3 1 (2.778%) ESB
3 1 (2.778%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 2 (5.556%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.778%) Acrobat
2 1 (2.778%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.778%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (30.56%) TOAD
3 2 (5.556%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.556%) Firebird
3 2 (5.556%) MySQL
4 1 (2.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) ClearQuest
2 3 (8.333%) ClearCase
2 3 (8.333%) Selenium
2 3 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (5.556%) Eclipse
3 2 (5.556%) IntelliJ
3 2 (5.556%) Ant
3 2 (5.556%) Log4j
3 2 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (5.556%) Subversion
4 1 (2.778%) NUnit
4 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.778%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.778%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 9 (25.00%) Advertising
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.556%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.778%) Legal
4 1 (2.778%) Publishing
4 1 (2.778%) Banking
4 1 (2.778%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Developer
2 15 (41.67%) .NET Developer
3 12 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 12 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 12 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 11 (30.56%) Architect
5 9 (25.00%) Software Architect
5 9 (25.00%) Java Software Architect
5 9 (25.00%) Java Architect
6 3 (8.333%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.333%) Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Test Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.556%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.556%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.778%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.778%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 23 (63.89%) MVC
3 13 (36.11%) Web Development
4 11 (30.56%) Waterfall
5 9 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 9 (25.00%) RUP
6 3 (8.333%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (8.333%) Use Case
6 3 (8.333%) Test Scripting
6 3 (8.333%) Automation Testing
7 2 (5.556%) Process Management
7 2 (5.556%) Time Management
7 2 (5.556%) MVVM
7 2 (5.556%) OO
7 2 (5.556%) Workflow
8 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.778%) Scrum
8 1 (2.778%) CRM
8 1 (2.778%) SOA
8 1 (2.778%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) SQL
2 19 (52.78%) C#
3 18 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (41.67%) T-SQL
5 12 (33.33%) Java
6 3 (8.333%) PHP
6 3 (8.333%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.333%) VB.NET
7 2 (5.556%) XAML
7 2 (5.556%) Delphi
8 1 (2.778%) COBOL
8 1 (2.778%) VBScript
8 1 (2.778%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (8.333%) ISEB
1 3 (8.333%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (36.11%) Oracle
3 2 (5.556%) Pega
3 2 (5.556%) BEA
4 1 (2.778%) Google
4 1 (2.778%) SEEBURGER
4 1 (2.778%) SAP
Telford, Shropshire
Expert knowledge of HTML, HTML5... CSS3, including Media queries. HTML/HTML5/XHTML/DHTML. JavaScript,Ajax, JSON, jQuery... Desirable skills include: Exposure to ASP.NET (VB.net) Visual Studio...
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Posted: 12 June 2013