Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 8 February 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.

LinkExtensible Markup Language (XML)
Location
3 months to
8 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank171515
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads6331914817346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.061 %8.998 %8.730 %
As % of the Application Development category22.15 %26.32 %27.42 %
Salaries quoted5572809314803
Average salary£37,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.730 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£26,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£55,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
285863475363254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.40 %34.18 %31.84 %
Salaries quoted248093038653831
Average salary£37,500£37,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.350 %-1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

XML
Demand Trend

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

XML Demand Trend

XML
Salary Trend

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

XML Salary Trend

XML
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XML over the 3 months to 8 February 2010 within the UK.

XML Salary Histogram

XML
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 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
EnglandDown-46042£37,500+2.73 %
LondonDown-72452£45,000-
South EastUp+11371£37,500+2.73 %
City of LondonDown-1757£45,000-5.26 %
South WestDown-1467£32,500-4.41 %
North WestDown-4457£30,000-1.63 %
East of EnglandDown-2444£32,500-7.14 %
YorkshireDown-2405£31,000-4.61 %
SurreyUp+3363£42,500+7.59 %
BerkshireDown-8287£37,500-
ManchesterUp+2272£30,000+7.14 %
West MidlandsDown-12222£31,500-5.97 %
HampshireUp+6215£32,500-7.14 %
CambridgeshireUp+6197£28,500-18.57 %
East MidlandsDown-6166£30,000-4.76 %
West YorkshireDown-6164£32,500-
ScotlandDown-3157£35,000-6.66 %
OxfordshireNo change0152£40,000+11.11 %
WiltshireNo change0148£32,500+8.33 %
CambridgeUp+6146£27,500-21.42 %
West SussexUp+21106£35,000-5.40 %
North YorkshireUp+38105£29,625-8.84 %
HertfordshireDown-9104£40,000-
LeedsDown-796£33,250+6.40 %
WalesDown-293£33,000-0.75 %
CheshireDown-1488£33,000+3.12 %
South YorkshireUp+483£31,250-5.30 %
NottinghamshireUp+381£33,750+4.65 %
BirminghamDown-1080£31,500-3.07 %
South WalesNo change078£33,500+3.07 %

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

16099 (48.57 %).NET
24980 (39.66 %)C#
34872 (38.80 %)SQL Server
44721 (37.60 %)JavaScript
54697 (37.41 %)HTML
64666 (37.16 %)SQL
74101 (32.66 %)ASP.NET
83731 (29.71 %)CSS
93640 (28.99 %)Java
102947 (23.47 %)AJAX
112777 (22.12 %)Web Services
122146 (17.09 %)XSLT
132115 (16.84 %)OO
141826 (14.54 %)Finance
151825 (14.53 %)Oracle
161810 (14.41 %)Microsoft
171652 (13.16 %)PHP
181646 (13.11 %)XHTML
191601 (12.75 %)VB.NET
201567 (12.48 %)Windows
211531 (12.19 %)Degree
221452 (11.56 %)SQL Server 2005
231348 (10.74 %)UNIX
241340 (10.67 %)Web Development
251315 (10.47 %)J2EE
261276 (10.16 %)Linux
271263 (10.06 %)MySQL
281246 (9.923 %)Spring
291137 (9.055 %)E-Commerce
301038 (8.266 %).NET Framework

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16099 (48.57 %).NET
24697 (37.41 %)HTML
34101 (32.66 %)ASP.NET
43731 (29.71 %)CSS
52947 (23.47 %)AJAX
62777 (22.12 %)Web Services
72146 (17.09 %)XSLT
81646 (13.11 %)XHTML
91315 (10.47 %)J2EE
101246 (9.923 %)Spring
111038 (8.266 %).NET Framework
12971 (7.733 %)ASP
13910 (7.247 %)SOAP
14906 (7.215 %)JSP
15872 (6.944 %)Flash
16785 (6.251 %)WCF
17758 (6.036 %)Hibernate
18718 (5.718 %)jQuery
19678 (5.399 %)MVC
20606 (4.826 %)DHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1768 (6.116 %)IIS
2708 (5.638 %)Apache
3694 (5.527 %)CMS
4637 (5.073 %)SharePoint
5468 (3.727 %)Tomcat
6360 (2.867 %)SharePoint Server 2007
7300 (2.389 %)BizTalk Server
8255 (2.031 %)WebLogic
9201 (1.601 %)MQSeries
10116 (0.924 %)ColdFusion
11101 (0.804 %)EPiServer
1285 (0.677 %)Oracle Workflow
1381 (0.645 %)WebSphere Application Server
1480 (0.637 %)Drupal
1578 (0.621 %)MS Exchange
1667 (0.534 %)WebSphere MQ
1756 (0.446 %)ArcGIS
1854 (0.430 %)Umbraco
1952 (0.414 %)Force.com
2048 (0.382 %)ESB
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1674 (5.368 %)MS Excel
2493 (3.926 %)Photoshop
3177 (1.410 %)Adobe Illustrator
4165 (1.314 %)MS Office
5136 (1.083 %)MS Visio
683 (0.661 %)Fireworks
760 (0.478 %)InfoPath
849 (0.390 %)Spreadsheet
928 (0.223 %)FrameMaker
1024 (0.191 %)MS Project
1120 (0.159 %)Acrobat
1217 (0.135 %)SPSS
1314 (0.111 %)PrintSoft PReS
1413 (0.104 %)Paint Shop Pro
1510 (0.080 %)MS PowerPoint
169 (0.072 %)MATLAB
169 (0.072 %)RoboHelp
177 (0.056 %)InDesign
177 (0.056 %)AutoCAD
184 (0.032 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
172 (0.573 %)Oracle EBS
247 (0.374 %)Google Analytics
345 (0.358 %)Oracle Applications
438 (0.303 %)Oracle EBS R12
534 (0.271 %)Dynamics CRM
633 (0.263 %)Microsoft CRM
727 (0.215 %)Oracle 11i
825 (0.199 %)BusinessWorks
924 (0.191 %)WebTrends
1022 (0.175 %)Oracle HRMS
1117 (0.135 %)Dynamics AX
1216 (0.127 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1312 (0.096 %)Oracle Financials
1410 (0.080 %)Remedy ITSM
1410 (0.080 %)Remedy AR System
158 (0.064 %)Loan IQ
158 (0.064 %)Oracle iProcurement
158 (0.064 %)Epicor Vantage
167 (0.056 %)Navision
175 (0.040 %)Staffware
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1723 (5.758 %)Internet
2400 (3.185 %)HTTP
3292 (2.325 %)Intranet
4260 (2.071 %)TCP/IP
584 (0.669 %)Extranet
670 (0.557 %)Firewall
769 (0.549 %)FTP
861 (0.486 %)DNS
950 (0.398 %)SSL
1037 (0.295 %)LDAP
1037 (0.295 %)SAN
1136 (0.287 %)VoIP
1235 (0.279 %)Broadband
1332 (0.255 %)DHCP
1428 (0.223 %)SMTP
1523 (0.183 %)CTI
1622 (0.175 %)SSH
1717 (0.135 %)LAN
1816 (0.127 %)UMTS
1915 (0.119 %)Wireless
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14872 (38.80 %)SQL Server
21452 (11.56 %)SQL Server 2005
31263 (10.06 %)MySQL
4687 (5.471 %)SQL Server 2008
5642 (5.113 %)RDBMS
6473 (3.767 %)SQL Server 2000
7269 (2.142 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8247 (1.967 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9173 (1.378 %)Oracle 10g
10164 (1.306 %)Datawarehouse
11139 (1.107 %)Crystal Reports
12129 (1.027 %)BusinessObjects
13116 (0.924 %)GIS
14113 (0.900 %)DB2
15110 (0.876 %)Oracle Reports
16103 (0.820 %)MS Access
17102 (0.812 %)Oracle 8/8i
1899 (0.788 %)ETL
1997 (0.772 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
2083 (0.661 %)DTS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1947 (7.542 %)Visual Studio
2612 (4.874 %)Subversion
3492 (3.918 %)NUnit
4385 (3.066 %)JUnit
5373 (2.970 %)Ant
6221 (1.760 %)Eclipse
7206 (1.641 %)Dreamweaver
8199 (1.585 %)Maven
9152 (1.210 %)Team Foundation Server
10142 (1.131 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1192 (0.733 %)ClearCase
1283 (0.661 %)Oracle Forms
1380 (0.637 %)TeamCity
1453 (0.422 %)Log4j
1551 (0.406 %)Selenium
1650 (0.398 %)QuickTest Pro
1743 (0.342 %)CruiseControl
1743 (0.342 %)Expression Blend
1837 (0.295 %)JDeveloper
1934 (0.271 %)Flex Builder
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11826 (14.54 %)Finance
2988 (7.868 %)Banking
3563 (4.484 %)Pensions
4544 (4.332 %)Marketing
5474 (3.775 %)Insurance
6473 (3.767 %)Health
7445 (3.544 %)Retail
8415 (3.305 %)Investment Banking
9412 (3.281 %)Front Office
10326 (2.596 %)Education
11243 (1.935 %)Games
12219 (1.744 %)Telecoms
13200 (1.593 %)Back Office
14189 (1.505 %)Publishing
15146 (1.163 %)Government
16123 (0.980 %)Animation
17122 (0.972 %)Multimedia
18119 (0.948 %)Music
18119 (0.948 %)Advertising
1993 (0.741 %)Construction
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19080 (72.31 %)Developer
22405 (19.15 %).NET Developer
31891 (15.06 %)Web Developer
41520 (12.10 %)C# Developer
51497 (11.92 %)Java Developer
61316 (10.48 %)Senior Developer
71072 (8.537 %)Analyst
8930 (7.406 %)ASP.NET Developer
9617 (4.914 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
10610 (4.858 %)Software Developer
11607 (4.834 %)PHP Developer
12511 (4.069 %)Programmer
13473 (3.767 %)Consultant
14462 (3.679 %)VB.NET Developer
15415 (3.305 %)Architect
15415 (3.305 %)Applications Developer
16360 (2.867 %).NET Web Developer
17330 (2.628 %)Team Leader
18324 (2.580 %)Senior .NET Developer
19320 (2.548 %)Software Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1542 (4.316 %)Derivative
2504 (4.014 %)Computer Science
3381 (3.034 %)N-Tier
4298 (2.373 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5284 (2.262 %)Fixed Income
6279 (2.222 %)Client/Server
7266 (2.118 %)W3C
8241 (1.919 %)Multithreading
9223 (1.776 %)Open Source
10216 (1.720 %)Web 2.0
11172 (1.370 %)Equity Derivative
12145 (1.155 %)Equities
13126 (1.003 %)Mathematics
14123 (0.980 %)Credit Derivative
15106 (0.844 %)Social Network
1692 (0.733 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1790 (0.717 %)Data Integration
1881 (0.645 %)iPhone
1970 (0.557 %)Management Information System
2069 (0.549 %)Replication
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11567 (12.48 %)Windows
21348 (10.74 %)UNIX
31276 (10.16 %)Linux
4268 (2.134 %)Windows Server 2003
5265 (2.110 %)Solaris
6119 (0.948 %)Windows Server 2008
787 (0.693 %)Windows XP
867 (0.534 %)Red Hat Linux
962 (0.494 %)Windows 2000
1056 (0.446 %)Windows Mobile
1152 (0.414 %)AIX
1247 (0.374 %)Android
1333 (0.263 %)HPUX
1333 (0.263 %)Windows Vista
1428 (0.223 %)Ubuntu
1523 (0.183 %)Mac OS X
1622 (0.175 %)VMS
1720 (0.159 %)Windows 2000 Server
1819 (0.151 %)FreeBSD
1916 (0.127 %)Windows CE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12115 (16.84 %)OO
21340 (10.67 %)Web Development
31137 (9.055 %)E-Commerce
4848 (6.753 %)Agile Software Development
5768 (6.116 %)UML
6583 (4.643 %)Scrum
7574 (4.571 %)SOA
8571 (4.547 %)TDD
9552 (4.396 %)OOP
10524 (4.173 %)Content Management
11443 (3.528 %)Unit Testing
12429 (3.416 %)Project Management
13399 (3.178 %)OOD
14379 (3.018 %)SEO
15365 (2.907 %)CRM
16304 (2.421 %)Workflow
17282 (2.246 %)Web Design
18250 (1.991 %)Software Engineering
19240 (1.911 %)Migration
20237 (1.887 %)Data Modelling
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14980 (39.66 %)C#
24721 (37.60 %)JavaScript
34666 (37.16 %)SQL
43640 (28.99 %)Java
51652 (13.16 %)PHP
61601 (12.75 %)VB.NET
71024 (8.155 %)C++
81023 (8.147 %)VB
9951 (7.573 %)T-SQL
10710 (5.654 %)Perl
11590 (4.699 %)C
12586 (4.667 %)ActionScript
13436 (3.472 %)PL/SQL
14413 (3.289 %)VB6
15323 (2.572 %)ActionScript 3.0
16319 (2.540 %)PHP5
17255 (2.031 %)VBScript
18252 (2.007 %)Shell Script
19244 (1.943 %)XPath
20241 (1.919 %)VBA
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11531 (12.19 %)Degree
2511 (4.069 %)Microsoft Certification
3355 (2.827 %)MCSD
4348 (2.771 %)MCP
5336 (2.676 %)MCTS
6318 (2.532 %)MCAD
7305 (2.429 %)Security Cleared
8112 (0.892 %)SC Cleared
9105 (0.836 %)ISEB
1039 (0.311 %)MCPD
1130 (0.239 %)MCSE
1227 (0.215 %)HND
1325 (0.199 %)MCITP
1423 (0.183 %)Sun Certification
1522 (0.175 %)Cisco Certification
1522 (0.175 %)CCNA
1621 (0.167 %)PhD
1720 (0.159 %)DV Cleared
1720 (0.159 %)ITIL Certification
1818 (0.143 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1304 (2.421 %)QA
262 (0.494 %)WAI
340 (0.319 %)SLA
435 (0.279 %)WCAG
520 (0.159 %)HL7
69 (0.072 %)ISO27001
76 (0.048 %)ISO9001
85 (0.040 %)BS7799
85 (0.040 %)ISO17799
94 (0.032 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
103 (0.024 %)TickIT
112 (0.016 %)ISO14001
121 (0.008 %)ISO/IEC 20000
121 (0.008 %)COBIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1156 (1.242 %)Active Directory
237 (0.295 %)MSMQ
328 (0.223 %)AquaLogic
415 (0.119 %)ISA Server
58 (0.064 %)Hadoop
67 (0.056 %)NFS
76 (0.048 %)Xen
84 (0.032 %)Samba
93 (0.024 %)VMware Infrastructure
102 (0.016 %)OpenLDAP
111 (0.008 %)VMware ESX
111 (0.008 %)VMware Workstation
111 (0.008 %)Oracle RAC
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
116 (0.127 %)AutoSys
210 (0.080 %)TIBCO Hawk
38 (0.064 %)Plesk
38 (0.064 %)Tivoli
47 (0.056 %)OpenView
47 (0.056 %)SCCM
56 (0.048 %)Nagios
65 (0.040 %)TIBCO InConcert
65 (0.040 %)MSI
65 (0.040 %)HP Quality Center
65 (0.040 %)Zenoss
74 (0.032 %)MIIS
74 (0.032 %)Tivoli Monitoring
83 (0.024 %)BMC PATROL
92 (0.016 %)Dollar Universe
92 (0.016 %)CONTROL-M
92 (0.016 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
92 (0.016 %)Unicenter
101 (0.008 %)MOM
101 (0.008 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11825 (14.53 %)Oracle
21810 (14.41 %)Microsoft
3327 (2.604 %)JBoss
4281 (2.238 %)Sybase
5233 (1.856 %)Adobe
6186 (1.481 %)TIBCO
7158 (1.258 %)IBM
8153 (1.218 %)Google
9129 (1.027 %)Business Objects
10124 (0.987 %)Zend
1179 (0.629 %)Sun
1278 (0.621 %)Red Hat
1373 (0.581 %)SAP
1471 (0.565 %)HP
1562 (0.494 %)Salesforce.com
1660 (0.478 %)Interwoven
1759 (0.470 %)BEA
1852 (0.414 %)Sitecore
1950 (0.398 %)Cisco
2048 (0.382 %)Remedy