The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stroud 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 Stroud region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 2 10 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Permanent jobs citing XML 11 27 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stroud 50.00% 26.47% -
As % of the Application Development category 64.71% 67.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 0
Average salary £32,500 £34,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.41% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,309
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.20%
All Application Development
Stroud
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17 40 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stroud 77.27% 39.22% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 8
Average salary £32,500 £34,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.41% +36.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £33,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £32,750 £27,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
XML
Gloucestershire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stroud 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 Stroud region.

Stroud XML Salary Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stroud 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 9 (69.23%) C#
1 9 (69.23%) .NET
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
2 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (38.46%) PHP5
3 5 (38.46%) soapUI
3 5 (38.46%) Business Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) VB.NET
3 5 (38.46%) PHP
3 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (38.46%) C++
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) SOAP
3 5 (38.46%) OO
3 5 (38.46%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) XHTML
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) XSD
4 4 (30.77%) XSLT
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
4 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
4 4 (30.77%) Web Development
4 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
4 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stroud 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 9 (69.23%) .NET
2 5 (38.46%) soapUI
2 5 (38.46%) SOAP
3 4 (30.77%) XHTML
3 4 (30.77%) XSD
3 4 (30.77%) XSLT
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
3 4 (30.77%) jQuery
3 4 (30.77%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
1 4 (30.77%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Test Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Software Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Systems Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) TDD
1 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (38.46%) Business Analysis
2 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) OO
3 4 (30.77%) Web Development
3 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
3 4 (30.77%) MVC
3 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
3 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
3 4 (30.77%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) C#
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) PHP5
2 5 (38.46%) VB.NET
2 5 (38.46%) PHP
2 5 (38.46%) C++
2 5 (38.46%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) Sitecore
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