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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JSON over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkJSON
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank430537883
Rank change year-on-year
Up+107Up+346
Matching permanent IT job ads26113381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.304 %0.157 %0.040 %
As % of the Application Development category0.833 %0.451 %0.123 %
Salaries quoted2349975
Average salary£37,000£36,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.770 %-28.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£31,200
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£70,000£55,600
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
--18.75 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
313272948765977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.46 %34.77 %32.33 %
Salaries quoted272762516156137
Average salary£38,000£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %

JSON
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing JSON within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSON Demand Trend

JSON
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JSON within the UK.

JSON Salary Trend

JSON
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JSON over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

JSON Salary Histogram

JSON
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+103259£37,000+2.77 %
LondonUp+34122£45,000-9.09 %
South EastUp+3961£32,500-5.10 %
City of LondonDown-4234£45,000-19.28 %
East of EnglandUp+2330£30,000-
BerkshireNew entry-27£32,500-
CambridgeshireUp+1524£31,750-3.78 %
CambridgeUp+1324£31,750-3.78 %
North WestDown-624£31,500-3.07 %
ManchesterUp+821£33,250+33.00 %
South WestNew entry-16£35,000-
KentDown-112£37,500-6.25 %
GloucestershireNew entry-11£40,000-
SurreyUp+2010£42,500+112.50 %
WindsorNew entry-9£32,500-
GloucesterNew entry-9£40,000-
Canary WharfNew entry-8--
BedfordshireNew entry-6£25,000-
West SussexNew entry-6£31,250-
BristolNew entry-5£30,000-
SloughNew entry-4£32,500-
West MidlandsUp+313£28,000-30.00 %
BrightonUp+73£31,500-
East SussexUp+53£31,500-
WorcestershireNew entry-3£28,000-
HampshireUp+242£27,500-15.38 %
PrestonUp+162£34,250+5.38 %
BasingstokeUp+152£27,500-15.38 %
ScotlandUp+152£38,250+47.11 %
North YorkshireUp+52£32,000-14.66 %

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing JSON 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 JSON.

1344 (74.46 %)AJAX
2335 (72.51 %)JavaScript
3280 (60.61 %)XML
4256 (55.41 %)CSS
5250 (54.11 %).NET
6225 (48.70 %)C#
7199 (43.07 %)HTML
8162 (35.06 %)ASP.NET
9161 (34.85 %)jQuery
10153 (33.12 %)SQL
11136 (29.44 %)SQL Server
12134 (29.00 %)Java
13131 (28.35 %)PHP
13131 (28.35 %)Web Services
14112 (24.24 %)Linux
15109 (23.59 %)XHTML
16102 (22.08 %)OO
1786 (18.61 %)SOAP
1882 (17.75 %)Agile Software Development
1980 (17.32 %)MVC
1980 (17.32 %)Microsoft
2071 (15.37 %)Perl
2071 (15.37 %)Subversion
2169 (14.94 %)C++
2267 (14.50 %)PHP5
2365 (14.07 %)MySQL
2464 (13.85 %)UNIX
2561 (13.20 %)Web Development
2658 (12.55 %)Windows
2757 (12.34 %)Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1344 (74.46 %)AJAX
2280 (60.61 %)XML
3256 (55.41 %)CSS
4250 (54.11 %).NET
5199 (43.07 %)HTML
6162 (35.06 %)ASP.NET
7161 (34.85 %)jQuery
8131 (28.35 %)Web Services
9109 (23.59 %)XHTML
1086 (18.61 %)SOAP
1155 (11.90 %)XSLT
1155 (11.90 %)WCF
1251 (11.04 %)Spring
1349 (10.61 %)DOM
1444 (9.524 %)J2EE
1444 (9.524 %)Flash
1538 (8.225 %).NET Framework
1538 (8.225 %)JDBC
1538 (8.225 %)JMS
1636 (7.792 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
157 (12.34 %)Apache
241 (8.874 %)IIS
336 (7.792 %)CMS
420 (4.329 %)Tomcat
512 (2.597 %)SharePoint
610 (2.165 %)Umbraco
79 (1.948 %)Lightstreamer
84 (0.866 %)nginx
84 (0.866 %)EPiServer
84 (0.866 %)Drupal
93 (0.649 %)Alfresco
101 (0.216 %)Joomla!
101 (0.216 %)SharePoint Server 2007
101 (0.216 %)Sitecore CMS
101 (0.216 %)Apache Solr
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
131 (6.710 %)Photoshop
214 (3.030 %)MS Excel
39 (1.948 %)Fireworks
39 (1.948 %)Adobe Illustrator
41 (0.216 %)MS Visio
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.216 %)WebTrends
11 (0.216 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
152 (11.26 %)Internet
235 (7.576 %)HTTP
326 (5.628 %)TCP/IP
416 (3.463 %)SSH
416 (3.463 %)FTP
416 (3.463 %)SMTP
59 (1.948 %)AMQP
59 (1.948 %)Intranet
65 (1.082 %)DNS
65 (1.082 %)DHCP
65 (1.082 %)SNMP
73 (0.649 %)GPRS
73 (0.649 %)GSM
73 (0.649 %)3GPP
73 (0.649 %)3G
73 (0.649 %)HSDPA
82 (0.433 %)Firewall
91 (0.216 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1136 (29.44 %)SQL Server
265 (14.07 %)MySQL
337 (8.009 %)SQL Server 2005
415 (3.247 %)SQL Server Integration Services
415 (3.247 %)SQL Server 2008
58 (1.732 %)RDBMS
65 (1.082 %)SQL Server 2000
73 (0.649 %)DB2
82 (0.433 %)Datawarehouse
82 (0.433 %)PostgreSQL
82 (0.433 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
91 (0.216 %)Oracle 10g
91 (0.216 %)Crystal Reports
91 (0.216 %)Oracle 11g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
171 (15.37 %)Subversion
254 (11.69 %)Ant
328 (6.061 %)NUnit
424 (5.195 %)TeamCity
519 (4.113 %)Eclipse
618 (3.896 %)Selenium
715 (3.247 %)JUnit
715 (3.247 %)VSS/SourceSafe
813 (2.814 %)Maven
813 (2.814 %)WATIR
813 (2.814 %)Team Foundation Server
912 (2.597 %)csUnit
912 (2.597 %)NCover
912 (2.597 %)NDepend
1010 (2.165 %)Visual Studio
119 (1.948 %)ReSharper
126 (1.299 %)Xcode
135 (1.082 %)Zend Studio
143 (0.649 %)Rational Robot
143 (0.649 %)ClearCase
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
148 (10.39 %)Finance
226 (5.628 %)Marketing
325 (5.411 %)Music
423 (4.978 %)Pensions
521 (4.545 %)Health
619 (4.113 %)Insurance
718 (3.896 %)Graphic Design
89 (1.948 %)Banking
98 (1.732 %)Retail
107 (1.515 %)Education
116 (1.299 %)Law
116 (1.299 %)Investment Banking
116 (1.299 %)Games
125 (1.082 %)Publishing
134 (0.866 %)Music Industry
134 (0.866 %)Flash Games
143 (0.649 %)Online Games
143 (0.649 %)Advertising
143 (0.649 %)Back Office
152 (0.433 %)Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1386 (83.55 %)Developer
2160 (34.63 %)Web Developer
392 (19.91 %)Senior Developer
487 (18.83 %).NET Developer
542 (9.091 %)Java Developer
640 (8.658 %)Front-End Developer
738 (8.225 %)ASP.NET Developer
834 (7.359 %)Analyst
931 (6.710 %)Senior Web Developer
931 (6.710 %).NET Web Developer
1030 (6.494 %)UI Developer
1128 (6.061 %)C# Developer
1227 (5.844 %)Senior Java Developer
1326 (5.628 %)Software Developer
1423 (4.978 %)PHP Developer
1423 (4.978 %)Perl Developer
1423 (4.978 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1522 (4.762 %)Front-End Web Developer
1522 (4.762 %)Senior .NET Developer
1522 (4.762 %)Junior
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
143 (9.307 %)iPhone
240 (8.658 %)W3C
335 (7.576 %)Client/Server
433 (7.143 %)Blackberry
532 (6.926 %)Derivative
630 (6.494 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
722 (4.762 %)Computer Science
722 (4.762 %)Fixed Income
821 (4.545 %)Equities
919 (4.113 %)Web 2.0
1013 (2.814 %)N-Tier
119 (1.948 %)Grid Computing
128 (1.732 %)Multithreading
128 (1.732 %)SaaS
137 (1.515 %)Handset
137 (1.515 %)Social Network
144 (0.866 %)Cloud Computing
153 (0.649 %)RIA
153 (0.649 %)Mathematics
162 (0.433 %)Clustering
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1112 (24.24 %)Linux
264 (13.85 %)UNIX
358 (12.55 %)Windows
48 (1.732 %)Ubuntu
48 (1.732 %)Android
55 (1.082 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (0.433 %)Mac OS
62 (0.433 %)Solaris
62 (0.433 %)Windows XP
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1102 (22.08 %)OO
282 (17.75 %)Agile Software Development
380 (17.32 %)MVC
461 (13.20 %)Web Development
555 (11.90 %)UML
652 (11.26 %)TDD
743 (9.307 %)Scrum
743 (9.307 %)OOP
841 (8.874 %)E-Commerce
934 (7.359 %)AOP
1028 (6.061 %)Continuous Integration
1028 (6.061 %)Content Management
1122 (4.762 %)B2B
1221 (4.545 %)SEO
1320 (4.329 %)Web Design
1417 (3.680 %)OOD
1514 (3.030 %)CRM
1612 (2.597 %)Refactoring
1612 (2.597 %)Software Testing
1711 (2.381 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1335 (72.51 %)JavaScript
2225 (48.70 %)C#
3153 (33.12 %)SQL
4134 (29.00 %)Java
5131 (28.35 %)PHP
671 (15.37 %)Perl
769 (14.94 %)C++
867 (14.50 %)PHP5
956 (12.12 %)T-SQL
1045 (9.740 %)VB.NET
1138 (8.225 %)C
1224 (5.195 %)ActionScript
1224 (5.195 %)Objective-C
1224 (5.195 %)Ruby
1320 (4.329 %)PHP4
1419 (4.113 %)XPath
1518 (3.896 %)ActionScript 3.0
1617 (3.680 %)Shell Script
1712 (2.597 %)VB
1712 (2.597 %)Python
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
147 (10.17 %)Degree
210 (2.165 %)ISEB
34 (0.866 %)MCPD
42 (0.433 %)Microsoft Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (3.030 %)QA
21 (0.216 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.216 %)MSMQ
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
180 (17.32 %)Microsoft
230 (6.494 %)Oracle
323 (4.978 %)Zend
414 (3.030 %)JD Edwards
513 (2.814 %)Sybase
69 (1.948 %)Yahoo!
69 (1.948 %)Apple
69 (1.948 %)GigaSpaces
69 (1.948 %)Terracotta
75 (1.082 %)Symbian
75 (1.082 %)Interwoven
84 (0.866 %)Adobe
93 (0.649 %)Ericsson
93 (0.649 %)Google
93 (0.649 %)Perforce
102 (0.433 %)DoubleClick
111 (0.216 %)TIBCO
111 (0.216 %)IBM
111 (0.216 %)JBoss
111 (0.216 %)Sitecore