The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 31 14 10
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -4
Permanent jobs citing XML 4 19 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 2.260% 13.48% 16.67%
As % of the Application Development category 6.667% 27.54% 64.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 31
Average salary £45,000 £40,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +1.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,309
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.20%
All Application Development
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
60 69 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.90% 48.94% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 44
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,350 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Hertfordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

St Albans XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (40.00%) CSS
4 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) IIS
4 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
6 2 (20.00%) OOD
6 2 (20.00%) XSL
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) VB
6 2 (20.00%) J2EE
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (20.00%) FitNesse
6 2 (20.00%) WPF
6 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
6 2 (20.00%) Web Development
6 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (20.00%) Java EE

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
1 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) XSL
3 2 (20.00%) J2EE
3 2 (20.00%) WPF
3 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) Java EE
3 2 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) LINQ
4 1 (10.00%) Flash
4 1 (10.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (10.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (10.00%) PaintShop Pro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) FitNesse
1 2 (20.00%) NUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Expression Blend
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Development Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) OOD
1 2 (20.00%) Web Development
1 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
1 2 (20.00%) MVC
1 2 (20.00%) Scrum
1 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) C#
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (20.00%) VB
5 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Telerik
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
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