The first table below looks at the demand for XBRL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XBRL over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
Rank - 870 862
Permanent jobs citing XBRL 0 26 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK - 0.021% 0.007%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.052% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 0 15 6
Average salary - £75,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +172.72%
UK excluding London average salary - - £25,000
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43800 50483 49443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.63% 41.74% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38094 44930 43658
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £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%

XBRL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

XBRL Jobs Demand Trend

XBRL
Salary Trend

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

XBRL Salary Trend

XBRL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing XBRL 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 XBRL.

1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 10 (71.43%) Degree
3 9 (64.29%) XML
3 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 7 (50.00%) Legal
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) SAP
6 5 (35.71%) Business Objects
6 5 (35.71%) C#
6 5 (35.71%) GAAP
6 5 (35.71%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
6 5 (35.71%) iXBRL
7 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (28.57%) SaaS
7 4 (28.57%) WCF
7 4 (28.57%) WF
7 4 (28.57%) LINQ
7 4 (28.57%) CMS
7 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
7 4 (28.57%) Telerik
7 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (28.57%) Marketing
7 4 (28.57%) XHTML
7 4 (28.57%) Internet
7 4 (28.57%) MVC
7 4 (28.57%) XAML
7 4 (28.57%) HTML
7 4 (28.57%) JavaScript

XBRL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing XBRL 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 XBRL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (64.29%) XML
2 5 (35.71%) iXBRL
3 4 (28.57%) XHTML
3 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 4 (28.57%) WCF
3 4 (28.57%) WF
3 4 (28.57%) LINQ
3 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 4 (28.57%) CSS
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (21.43%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
General
1 13 (92.86%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Legal
3 4 (28.57%) Marketing
4 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Management Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) OO
5 1 (7.143%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) XAML
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.143%) C++
4 1 (7.143%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) GAAP
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.143%) Basel II
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Business Objects
3 4 (28.57%) Telerik
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle