The first table below looks at the demand for RSS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank 819 803 801
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -2
Permanent jobs citing RSS 43 95 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.040% 0.079% 0.057%
As % of the Application Development category 0.099% 0.189% 0.143%
Number of salaries quoted 34 84 56
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £25,000 £27,750
10% offered a salary of more than £57,000 £54,250 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43651 50308 50336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.59% 41.67% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 37945 44694 44510
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,844 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing RSS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

RSS Jobs Demand Trend

RSS
Salary Trend

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

RSS Salary Trend

RSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing RSS over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

RSS Salary Histogram

RSS
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RSS within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 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
England -27 43 £42,500 +13.33%
South East +14 19 £42,500 +21.42%
London -23 19 £45,000 +10.42%
Hampshire - 8 £42,500 -
Basingstoke - 8 £42,500 -
Kent - 7 - -
East of England +14 5 £45,000 +38.46%
Cambridge - 5 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 5 £45,000 -
Surrey - 4 £35,000 -
Weybridge - 2 £35,000 -
City of London -5 1 - -
Sidcup - 1 £32,500 -
Orpington - 1 - -

RSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 92 (88.46%) CSS
2 65 (62.50%) Ajax
3 59 (56.73%) HTML
4 58 (55.77%) XML
5 55 (52.88%) JavaScript
6 49 (47.12%) XHTML
7 46 (44.23%) jQuery
8 45 (43.27%) PHP
9 41 (39.42%) .NET
9 41 (39.42%) ASP.NET
10 40 (38.46%) SQL
11 39 (37.50%) SQL Server
12 35 (33.65%) HTML5
12 35 (33.65%) CSS3
13 31 (29.81%) IIS
14 29 (27.88%) C#
14 29 (27.88%) W3C
14 29 (27.88%) SQL Server 2008
15 28 (26.92%) MySQL
15 28 (26.92%) Web Services
16 26 (25.00%) Google
17 24 (23.08%) JSON
17 24 (23.08%) MVC
18 23 (22.12%) MS Excel
19 22 (21.15%) SharePoint
19 22 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
19 22 (21.15%) Mobile App
19 22 (21.15%) Mobile Application Development
20 21 (20.19%) Twitter
20 21 (20.19%) Web Application Development

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 92 (88.46%) CSS
2 65 (62.50%) Ajax
3 59 (56.73%) HTML
4 58 (55.77%) XML
5 49 (47.12%) XHTML
6 46 (44.23%) jQuery
7 41 (39.42%) .NET
7 41 (39.42%) ASP.NET
8 35 (33.65%) HTML5
8 35 (33.65%) CSS3
9 28 (26.92%) Web Services
10 24 (23.08%) JSON
11 21 (20.19%) WCF
11 21 (20.19%) WF
12 17 (16.35%) SOAP
13 13 (12.50%) .NET Framework
13 13 (12.50%) Symfony
13 13 (12.50%) CakePHP
13 13 (12.50%) YAML
13 13 (12.50%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 31 (29.81%) IIS
2 22 (21.15%) SharePoint
3 21 (20.19%) SharePoint 2010
4 17 (16.35%) Apache
5 13 (12.50%) CMS
6 7 (6.731%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (4.808%) Drupal
8 4 (3.846%) WebLogic
8 4 (3.846%) SAS
8 4 (3.846%) Tomcat
8 4 (3.846%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.846%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.846%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.885%) nginx
9 3 (2.885%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.885%) WordPress
10 1 (0.962%) GemFire
10 1 (0.962%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.962%) Escenic
Applications
1 23 (22.12%) MS Excel
2 9 (8.654%) MS PowerPoint
2 9 (8.654%) MS Office
3 4 (3.846%) Stata
3 4 (3.846%) SPSS
4 3 (2.885%) Acrobat
4 3 (2.885%) Photoshop
4 3 (2.885%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.962%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.962%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 9 (8.654%) Google Analytics
1 9 (8.654%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.962%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.692%) HTTP
2 4 (3.846%) Internet
2 4 (3.846%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.846%) DNS
3 1 (0.962%) AMQP
3 1 (0.962%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 29 (27.88%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (26.92%) MySQL
4 4 (3.846%) GIS
4 4 (3.846%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.846%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.846%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.846%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.846%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 3 (2.885%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.885%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.962%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (20.19%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (7.692%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.808%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.885%) Redmine
4 3 (2.885%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.885%) Capistrano
4 3 (2.885%) RSpec
4 3 (2.885%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.885%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (2.885%) Subversion
5 1 (0.962%) JIRA
5 1 (0.962%) Xcode
General
1 21 (20.19%) Legal
2 14 (13.46%) Games
3 9 (8.654%) Law
4 8 (7.692%) Automotive
4 8 (7.692%) Marketing
5 2 (1.923%) Finance
6 1 (0.962%) Korean Language
6 1 (0.962%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 77 (74.04%) Developer
2 28 (26.92%) Web Developer
3 24 (23.08%) .NET Developer
4 19 (18.27%) PHP Developer
5 18 (17.31%) ASP.NET Developer
6 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
7 9 (8.654%) SEO Manager
8 8 (7.692%) Lead Developer
9 7 (6.731%) Mid-Level PHP Developer
9 7 (6.731%) Front-End Developer
9 7 (6.731%) Front-End Web Developer
10 6 (5.769%) VB.NET Developer
10 6 (5.769%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
10 6 (5.769%) Senior PHP Developer
11 5 (4.808%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.808%) Drupal Developer
11 5 (4.808%) Senior SEO Specialist
11 5 (4.808%) SEO Specialist
11 5 (4.808%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 5 (4.808%) Graduate Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.88%) W3C
2 22 (21.15%) Mobile App
3 16 (15.38%) SaaS
4 14 (13.46%) Computer Science
5 7 (6.731%) Blackberry
6 6 (5.769%) Taxonomies
6 6 (5.769%) Web 2.0
7 5 (4.808%) Social Media
8 4 (3.846%) NHS
8 4 (3.846%) RIA
8 4 (3.846%) Copywriting
9 3 (2.885%) Ontologies
10 2 (1.923%) Wiki
10 2 (1.923%) Blog
10 2 (1.923%) Open Source
10 2 (1.923%) New Media
11 1 (0.962%) iPad
11 1 (0.962%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.692%) Apple iOS
2 7 (6.731%) Android
2 7 (6.731%) Linux
3 4 (3.846%) UNIX
3 4 (3.846%) Windows
4 3 (2.885%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.962%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.08%) MVC
2 22 (21.15%) Agile Software Development
2 22 (21.15%) Mobile Application Development
3 21 (20.19%) Web Application Development
3 21 (20.19%) E-Commerce
4 18 (17.31%) SEO
5 17 (16.35%) OO
6 16 (15.38%) Scrum
6 16 (15.38%) Dependency Injection
7 13 (12.50%) CRM
7 13 (12.50%) Web Development
7 13 (12.50%) Kanban
8 10 (9.615%) Analytics
9 8 (7.692%) Web Design
9 8 (7.692%) Time Management
10 6 (5.769%) TDD
11 5 (4.808%) Competitor Analysis
12 4 (3.846%) Data Analysis
12 4 (3.846%) Content Management
12 4 (3.846%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 55 (52.88%) JavaScript
2 45 (43.27%) PHP
3 40 (38.46%) SQL
4 29 (27.88%) C#
5 13 (12.50%) PHP5
6 10 (9.615%) Java
7 9 (8.654%) VB.NET
8 7 (6.731%) Python
9 4 (3.846%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.846%) R
10 3 (2.885%) Bash shell
10 3 (2.885%) Ruby
10 3 (2.885%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.962%) XPath
11 1 (0.962%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.962%) XQuery
11 1 (0.962%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) Degree
2 2 (1.923%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.846%) Dublin Core
2 3 (2.885%) QA
3 2 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.962%) vCloud
1 1 (0.962%) vSphere
1 1 (0.962%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (25.00%) Google
2 21 (20.19%) Twitter
3 20 (19.23%) Facebook
4 13 (12.50%) Zend
5 11 (10.58%) Adobe
6 9 (8.654%) Omniture
6 9 (8.654%) Microsoft
7 7 (6.731%) QNX
8 6 (5.769%) Oracle
9 3 (2.885%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.885%) VMware
10 2 (1.923%) Wyse
10 2 (1.923%) IBM
11 1 (0.962%) Brightcove
11 1 (0.962%) Apple
11 1 (0.962%) EMC
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