The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 20 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 16 17 9
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Permanent jobs citing XML 24 28 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 16.33% 14.89% 19.57%
As % of the Application Development category 30.38% 23.53% 37.11%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 31
Average salary £45,500 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.75% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,750 £37,750 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Application Development
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
79 119 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 53.74% 63.30% 52.72%
Number of salaries quoted 75 100 77
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Staffordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML across the Stoke-on-Trent region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Stoke-on-Trent XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 46 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (95.65%) JavaScript
2 44 (95.65%) CSS
3 41 (89.13%) SQL Server
4 40 (86.96%) ASP.NET
5 39 (84.78%) XHTML
5 39 (84.78%) C#
6 37 (80.43%) VB.NET
7 35 (76.09%) Degree
8 32 (69.57%) SQL
8 32 (69.57%) E-Commerce
9 31 (67.39%) MS Excel
9 31 (67.39%) Unit Testing
10 30 (65.22%) HTML5
10 30 (65.22%) SOA
11 29 (63.04%) SEO
11 29 (63.04%) XSLT
11 29 (63.04%) TDD
11 29 (63.04%) Ajax
12 28 (60.87%) N-Tier
12 28 (60.87%) jQuery
13 26 (56.52%) CSS3
13 26 (56.52%) Web Application Development
14 14 (30.43%) MVC
14 14 (30.43%) JIRA
15 12 (26.09%) CMS
15 12 (26.09%) Document Management
15 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
16 11 (23.91%) Web Development
16 11 (23.91%) Computer Science

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 46 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (95.65%) CSS
3 40 (86.96%) ASP.NET
4 39 (84.78%) XHTML
5 30 (65.22%) HTML5
6 29 (63.04%) XSLT
6 29 (63.04%) Ajax
7 28 (60.87%) jQuery
8 26 (56.52%) CSS3
9 6 (13.04%) HTML
10 4 (8.696%) ASP
11 2 (4.348%) WCF
11 2 (4.348%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 12 (26.09%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (67.39%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.348%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (89.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) JIRA
2 2 (4.348%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (4.348%) Subversion
General
1 4 (8.696%) Games
2 2 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Developer
2 21 (45.65%) Web Developer
3 19 (41.30%) Team Leader
3 19 (41.30%) Development Team Leader
4 18 (39.13%) .NET Team Leader
5 16 (34.78%) Web Team Leader
5 16 (34.78%) Senior Developer
6 14 (30.43%) Senior Web Developer
7 11 (23.91%) Web Development Team Leader
8 10 (21.74%) .NET Developer
9 9 (19.57%) Senior .NET Developer
10 8 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (17.39%) C# Developer
10 8 (17.39%) VB.NET Developer
11 7 (15.22%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (15.22%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (15.22%) C# Web Developer
11 7 (15.22%) Senior .NET Web Developer
11 7 (15.22%) Senior VB.NET Developer
11 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (60.87%) N-Tier
2 11 (23.91%) Computer Science
3 4 (8.696%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) E-Commerce
2 31 (67.39%) Unit Testing
3 30 (65.22%) SOA
4 29 (63.04%) TDD
4 29 (63.04%) SEO
5 26 (56.52%) Web Application Development
6 14 (30.43%) MVC
7 12 (26.09%) Document Management
8 11 (23.91%) Web Development
9 7 (15.22%) Project Management
10 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
11 2 (4.348%) OO
11 2 (4.348%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) JavaScript
2 39 (84.78%) C#
3 37 (80.43%) VB.NET
4 32 (69.57%) SQL
5 4 (8.696%) VB
6 2 (4.348%) VB6
6 2 (4.348%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.348%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (76.09%) Degree
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Essential Skills and experience: Degree educated in a relevant Computing or IT discipline - or having equivalent commercial experience Circa 3-5 years+ solid commercial .NET based web applications...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Based on Exp+ Bonus +Bens
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Web Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Wed/ Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Computer science background (OO design, design patterns, algorithms) Development experience in C#... Development experience of VB.NET and WPF. Good working knowledge of VB6... Exposure to WCF, SOA,...
Ticketmaster UK
Salary: Competative
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
Furthermore, to identify areas of potential efficiency and revenue gains within these websites.Main Duties & Responsibilities- Providing support for third party clients as may be required from time...
i4 Recruitment
Salary: £25k - 32k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013